This originally appeared in slightly different form at ShrinkTalk.net. Republished here with permission. When you’re a practicing therapist, you often have clients who grapple with infidelity in their relationships. If the client is the person who cheated, your job is to help him/her to understand the reasons behind the transgression and, if appropriate, how not […]
As a follow-up to her recent piece about her son’s “panda three-way,” Lynn Beisner continues the conversation about first sexual experiences. Last week I wrote about how my son lost his virginity: in a panda three-way. (An established couple with a sexually inexperienced guy.) One of my goals in writing about it was to open […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Must Women ‘Civilize’ Men? by Joan Walsh of Salon.com says that at the root of the conservative war on contraception is a deep-seated anxiety about the traditional family. 2. Life Without Sex: The Third Phase […]
This was originally posted at CharlieGlickman.com. Republished here with permission. In all of the discussion and debate about Rush Limbaugh’s recent attack on and pseudo-apology to Sandra Fluke, there’s a piece that I want to call out: If you don’t respect sluts, you don’t respect women. There have been other articles, like Yasmin Nair’s In […]
Clarisse Thorn sees nothing wrong with casual sex—she’s just not that into it. But she asks: What is it about the people who enjoy it so much? I can be a pretty brazen lady. Sometimes it surprises me how much this will give people the incorrect impression about my sexual habits. I actually dated one […]
Hugo Schwyzer tackles a new book by Eric Anderson, which claims that men are by nature polyamorous creatures, and attempting to stay within the confines of a monogamous relationship will almost certainly lead to resentment or straying. Is monogamy an unattainable ideal? According to increasingly popular wisdom, it seems to be. One new book suggests […]
Is a “panda three-way”—when an established heterosexual couple is joined by an inexperienced male in the bedroom—an appropriate right of passage into an informed, healthy sex life? Lynn Beisner ponders its true value after her son shared his first, incredible experience with her. Last Friday, I went to go pick up my college-age son to […]
Hi, I’m Clarisse. You may already know me as a feminist sex writer, and Role/Reboot’s Sex + Relationships editor. I met Internet Sociopath years ago, when he started commenting on my blog. At first I didn’t take him seriously; then he unsettled me; eventually I started to think he was kinda smart, and then I […]
