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Tag Archives: sex
Love of the Two-Armed Form – brilliant wisdom about intimate love from Adi Da Samraj
Love. We all want love. We all need love. All human problems come down to a problem about love, in my opinion. So why do so many of us seem to have sooooooo many problems about it in our intimate … Continue reading
Forever Barbie: are we a society of frigid Barbies and impotent Kens?
I was talking to a friend last year about how there seems to be a trend these days – particularly among certain types of young, middle-class adults – to not want to commit to anything or be penetrated by anything, … Continue reading
Why own-body sexual yoga is not such a bad idea
I love having a blog again. So yesterday a good friend dropped by to offer a 10 minute massage to me and a couple friends. We got to chatting, and he mentioned he’s been doing own-body sexual yoga* the past … Continue reading
In the Realm of the Senses: what price sexual obsession?
“[It] turns me on because it’s real.” – Madonna There are times, gentle reader, when I think that the entire purpose of my life is to ensnare some member of the opposite sex, and have that person fulfill me sexually, … Continue reading
Sex is not like pizza… or an oil change.
So I was thinking about sex recently, and about what’s required to actually have good sex, and whether it’s different in real life compared to TV and the movies. On TV, sex seems to often be portrayed as something purely … Continue reading
Anal pleasure and health
My spiritual teacher used to say that Americans (contrary to our self-image) tend to be very complicated about sex, but even more uptight about our anuses (buttholes? I’m not sure the PC term). He also said it can be useful … Continue reading
The importance of women, sex, and pleasure in Zen Buddhism
I always thought of Zen as a rather grim tradition–maybe because I viewed it through the lense of my own (paradoxically) pleasureless American culture. But perhaps I was misinformed, as this story suggests: “Won Hyo, nicknamed the Unbridled Monk, was … Continue reading