I’ve spent the past two days googling Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie, who play Jon Snow and Ygritte on Game of Thrones. (No, I have not told my husband this.) Call their sex scene Harlequin Romance, goofy for the “You no nothing, Jon Snow-oh-OH!” but the chemistry between the two actors is undeniable. If you’re [...]
July 5, 2012
Guest post: by Jean Callahan (A fearless explorer shares a few of her adventures…) The Hindus say there are three stages of life: student, householder, and spiritual seeker. According to this paradigm, people over 60 are irresistibly drawn to the devout, spending their days in meditation and the practice of good works. Needless to say, not [...]
May 3, 2012
Yesterday in Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory wonders why Obama’s addition of a new sex-ed abstinence plan isn’t getting more flack. The addition which was regulated by Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, according to RH Reality Check, “contains little or no information about puberty, anatomy, sexually transmitted diseases, or sexual behavior,” or does it “include information about the health [...]
April 30, 2012
With Miri’s post last week about her patchouli-wearing plumber’s advice (i.e., “Don’t share your snake with your neighbors”), my mind immediately started thinking about body parts. Maybe it’s because I’m due to read 50 Shades of Grey so we can hold this book club I’ve been touting. So I better get on some Monday morning [...]
April 25, 2012
I can’t believe I’m disagreeing with Miri, because I don’t think we’ve ever disagreed, but HBO’s Girls, to me, is funny. As in LOL fucking laugh out loud uncomfortable disgustingly funny. Granted, I’m more with the gyno at the end who said “You couldn’t pay me enough to be 24 again.”–Lena Dunham shows the nasty [...]
April 15, 2012
(Image: Richard Perry for the New York Times) Ready to talk about sex? After all of the clicks we got from my Fifty Shades of Passover photo (yep, that’s me engaged in some serious erotic lit while children jump on the bed behind me) we thought it would be a great idea to have our [...]
April 12, 2012
The second night of Passover and it’s just a regular old crazy fest. Andy’s brother is tossing the kids on the bed. The ladies are chatting about Fifty Shades of Grey. I hadn’t read the book, so my three sister-in-laws praised the sexual gods for sending down such erotic literary pleasure. Thankfully, 3-year-olds can’t read. [...]
April 10, 2012
With so much of the titillating 50 Shades of Grey talk around (all three of my sister-in-laws are reading the books and we discussed it in detail on Passover while the children furiously jumped in unison on the bed next to us), I couldn’t help but think of some of the other kinky possibilities that [...]
February 14, 2012
Okay, I admit. On Valentine’s Day, I need some flowers. Sorry to disappoint you all who believe that Valentine’s Day is just another commercial holiday that we shouldn’t be buying into, but my desire for roses (I’ll even take a dandelion) stems from an ex-boyfriend who got himself a tattoo “for me” on Valentine’s Day [...]
February 10, 2012
With Valentine’s day looming, we’re all looking for recipes for marriage, but it’s easy to miss each other in life. We compromise. We demand. We complain. Sometimes, hopefully most times, we meet in the middle around the screaming kids and the dog’s anal leakage and the dead mice that the cat leaves in the driveway [...]
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April 29, 2013
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