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Tag Archive | "Confession"

Confession: Synagogue Sex Ed

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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photo by Lawrie Cate A college-student contributor friend of ours, who wishes to remain anonymous, has a confession to make: Before my freshman year of high school, I didn’t know much more about sex than the basic mechanics. Insert tab A into slot B and, voila, you have a baby and/or an STD. This was the biggest lesson [...]

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Comments of the Week: Do It When Everyone’s Ready

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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photo by (nutmeg) We got a TON of great comments on the “How Long Can a Virgin Make a Guy Wait?” post, from Spes, SS, Madamaoiselle L….it was so hard to choose one! So we picked two: Rhett Butler: Let me recast the question to illuminate it a bit more.  While the analogy isn’t perfect, let’s replace [...]

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Confession: I Don’t Do Drunken Hookups

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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photo by nayrb7 A college-student contributor friend of ours, who wishes to remain anonymous, has a confession to make: I woke up one morning after an evening chugging most of a jug of $3 wine and several cups of that uniquely collegiate concoction “jungle juice.” Head pounding, eyes squinting, and stomach lurching, I realized there was a [...]

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My New Sex Ed Teacher: Mom

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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photo by ILoveButter A contributor friend of ours, who wishes to remain anonymous, has a confession to make: Until about a year ago, my mother was always very close-minded about sex. I never had “the talk” with either of my parents, and I learned about intercourse and other modes of love making via fellow classmates, porn, and [...]

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Comment of the Week – Can Married People Have Opposite-Sex Friends?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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photo by stevendepolo Let’s clarify that question: Can/should straight married people have opposite-sex friends? Which begs the question, can/should gay married people have same-sex friends? These questions were inspired by the following recent comment: I have found that even though I’ve been married for years, I never spend time alone with my husband’s male friends, even men [...]

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Confession: Hello Operator, Please Give Me My New Vibe

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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Cloud 9 from Babeland A contributor friend of ours, who wishes to remain anonymous, has a confession to make: One of the oft-cited benefits of buying a sex toy online is that you don’t have to see or speak to anyone. You don’t have to interact with a real human, period. But what happens when you lay [...]

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Confession: 7 Reasons Why I Hate Shower Sex

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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photo by stevendepolo A contributor friend of ours, who wished to remain anonymous, has a confession to make: I’m all for showering independently, quickly toweling off, and jumping back into bed for sex — that’s a good start to any morning. But if you want me to actually join you in the shower, you should know that [...]

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Confession: The Sexiness of Abstinence

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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Our contributor Katherine Chen, a sophomore English major at Princeton University (check out her personal site here), has a confession to make: These days, every girl between 10 and 50 seems to be obsessed with the Twilight Saga. You’d think it was because a story about an intense love triangle between a teenage girl, a vampire [...]

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All I Really Needed to Know I Learned from Porn

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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A few weeks ago our contributor Katherine Chen, a sophomore English major at Princeton University (check out her personal site here), wrote about how her sex education began (hint: poorly). Here she elaborates on how it improved: My first porn video: A woman with large breasts and reddish brown hair sits in what appears to be [...]

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Confession: I’m an Expert Sexter

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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photo by CoreForce Our contributor is a junior in college. And that’s all she’s willing to say. Except this… Sexting, for the uninitiated, involves sending texts that are sexual in nature. These can range from straightforward (e.g. “I want to fuck you right now”) to graphically descriptive (use your imagination). And, if you’re brave — or, perhaps, foolhardy [...]

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