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The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures: Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy: 9781587613371: Amazon.com. Nuva Ring: A Testimonial. Little plastic ring master of my uterus no babies for me Yes, that’s a haiku, what can I say; I really love my Nuva Ring.

Nuva Ring: A Testimonial

I spend a lot of time at work counseling women on their birth control options, and I’ve noticed that sometimes when women request the pill, it’s with a sigh and a “Well I’ll just try to set my phone alarm or do it when I get up in the morning,” after telling me how last time they just couldn’t remember to take it. You know, I can’t take pills either. The gist: It’s a plastic ring, you place it at the top of the vagina by your cervix, where it releases hormones over the course of 3 weeks and prevents ovulation, just like the birth control pill does.

There is nothing else quite like the Ring on the market yet, so I get some strange looks when I tell women about it. A sex positive web space. Rise of the Dominatrix: How to Make $300 an Hour Doing Sex Work ... Without Having Sex. Photo Credit: Wikimedia commons December 26, 2011 | Like this article?

Rise of the Dominatrix: How to Make $300 an Hour Doing Sex Work ... Without Having Sex

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Professional dominatrices (dominant women who submissive men hire for consensual sadomasochism) are not a recent addition to the workforce; before her death in 1836, a London-based dominatrix named Theresa Berkley operated an early 19th century equivalent of what would be called a BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism and masochism) dungeon today. The 1990s were a major turning point for BDSM, which invaded mainstream pop culture in a big way during that decade. With the public awareness of BDSM having increased considerably , struggling actresses and struggling singer/songwriters realized that there was more money to be made working in dungeons than waiting tables or working at Starbucks—and during the economic crisis of 2008-2011, people in the creative arts aren’t the only ones who are struggling.

Why Do We Demonize Men Who Are Honest About Their Sexual Needs? September 30, 2010 | Like this article?

Why Do We Demonize Men Who Are Honest About Their Sexual Needs?

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. This is an article about men, but I'm going to begin by talking about women's experiences. 7 Ways to Create a Sex-Positive Critique of Porn. One of the most common responses to the anti-porn critiques of pornography is that they’re sex-negative and all too often, that ends up creating a “no we’re not/yes you are” argument.

7 Ways to Create a Sex-Positive Critique of Porn

And yet, whenever I read the anti-porn side of things, I’m struck by how often sex-negativity is woven into their claims, although in all fairness, that’s not always the case. I couldn’t figure out exactly what it was that bothered me by the way that Gail Dines keeps talking about gagfactor.com, a website that focuses on men facefucking women. And then it hit me- there are two parts to it. First, Dines is trying to foment a moral panic. And second, she simply doesn’t understand sex. I can explain the first point better if I start with the second one. So what that means is that some people really enjoy being facefucked. For the people who enjoy it, there are lots of possible reasons. Asexual Visibility and Education Network. The Pervocracy. Fuck yeah sex education — Sex Positive Parenting: Kids Found the Condoms. Nexplanon. What Nexplanon Is: Nexplanon is the newer form of the contraceptive implant, Implanon.

Nexplanon

It is a progestin-only contraceptive that contains 68 mg of etonogestrel. Nexplanon is about the size of a matchstick and is made of a soft, flexible, medical polymer. This single-rod implant is inserted by a specially trained medical professional under the skin of your upper arm. You will be given a local anesthetic first, and the whole insertion only takes a few minutes. Sex Positive Activism. Condom Effectiveness: Fact Vs. Fiction. Earlier this week, I invited everyone to start an open dialogue about human sexuality, how we communicate about sex, and sex education.

Condom Effectiveness: Fact Vs. Fiction

Yesterday, I received an email from a reader that asked, "I have an aunt...who says that latex condoms don't work against AIDS, because the latex has microscopic holes and actually those don't work against the virus. Wake Up Mississippi. How Much of the Internet is Actually for Porn. » About. Scarleteen (Scarleteen) Midwest Teen Sex 25 - (Prom)iscuity.

Backpage, ashton kutcher and prostitution. I love this cover This is a very quick post.

backpage, ashton kutcher and prostitution

I’m sure I’ll think of better things to say this weekend. a little background After Craigslist fell, everyone’s attention turned to Backpage. The attention cranked up but Backpage wasn’t saying much, however it instituted new advertising policies that just got in the way of adult sex workers advertising there. The point of intersection came with the Superbowl in Dallas and the hordes of underage girls being trafficked into the city.

Meanwhile, over on the West Coast, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, along with assorted other female celebrities, have been braying about the problem of child sex trafficking in the US. The Village Voice ran a story making fun of Ashton’s “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls” campaign and questioning the numbers of underage trafficking victims. Which brings us to… few facts, several thoughts (Hey, if Ashton can do it, so can I!) Real men don’t buy/rent/sell girls. Real men get their facts straight. Yeah, so what? Following the money. Sex-positive movement. The sex-positive movement is a social movement which promotes and embraces sexuality with few limits beyond an emphasis on safe sex and the importance of informed consent.

Sex-positive movement

Sex positivity is "an attitude towards human sexuality that regards all consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable, and encourages sexual pleasure and experimentation. The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that advocates these attitudes. The sex-positive movement advocates sex education and safer sex as part of its campaign.

"[1] The movement generally makes no moral distinctions among types of sexual activities, regarding these choices as matters of personal preference. Overview[edit] The Center for Sex Positive Culture, Seattle. Cindy Gallop: Make Love Not Porn. Bio Cindy Gallop Cindy Gallop is Founder & CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld, a web meets world platform that turns good intentions into action, one microaction at a time, which launched in beta with a demo at TED 2010.

Cindy Gallop: Make Love Not Porn

She is also the founder of www.makelovenotporn.com, launched at TED 2009. Cindy’s background is brand building, marketing and advertising. She started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. She has a reputation as a highly compelling and inspirational speaker at conferences and events around the world on a variety of topics: her talk on ‘The Future of Advertising’ has been described on Twitter as "The most brilliant speech on the future of advertising ever – not the usual buzzword-laden bullshit. " To download this program become a Front Row member. ZOOM IN: Learn more with related books and additional materials. Encyclopædia Britannica Article pornography pornography on britannica.com.