By Leah Shapiro
What‘s your relationship with pleasure and feeling good?
Do you worry that too much pleasure leads to over-indulgence? Do you embrace pleasure whole-heartedly, looking for every opportunity to bask in juicy, good feelings
Nov 282010
Nov 272010
By Erin Fae
“Women were never more beautiful,” my friend said as she handed me my birthday present: a copy of Jazz Age Beauties: The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston by Robert Hudovernik.
Nov 252010
By Nina Love
Dear Nina
I’m new to the scene and it seems like EVERYONE wears heels, but they kill my feet within an hour and that is not that kind of pain I’m looking for on a Saturday night. Is it possible to find shoes that don’t hurt or am I destined to suffer?
Nov 232010
by Katie Diamond
When you Google “Compersion,” luckily, a Wikipedia article pops up with the following definition: Compersion is a state of empathetic happiness and joy experienced when an individual’s current or former romantic partner experiences happiness and joy through an outside source, including, but not limited to, another romantic interest.
Nov 222010
By Deirdre O’Donnell
While I am sitting on my sofa eating ice cream and watching “My Super Sweet Sixteen” on MTV, my mind suddenly stops vacantly letting the disturbing shopping sprees and bratty phone calls register as normative, and then a thought strikes me
Nov 202010
By Sarah Sloane
Dear Sarah,
I am in a poly network that mostly works for me, but one of my partner’s partners and I do not get along. We have tried several ways of communicating and all of it seems to end badly. The other partner & I agreed to not have much contact, but my partner still gets caught in the middle
Nov 182010
By CK Persons
The Catholic Church is no stranger to scandal as the sexual abuse crisis makes abundantly clear. But the most scandalous thing about Catholicism – and this is not to minimize the horrible effects of sexual and power abuse — is the Incarnation
Nov 162010
By Rayne
”Where’s your collar and leash?” in that quiet, firm tone that always lets me know he means business. His voice tugged my mind awake just long enough to croak out their last known location before I rolled to face the wall, snuggled back into the blankets, and drifted off to sleep.
Nov 152010
By Brian Flaherty
On September 7, 2010, the Western District of Missouri issued an indictment
Nov 142010
By Miss Indigo
I knew this moment would come. The moment where my partner would ask me to try something we have never tried before. For months, we have been carefully watching other couples, trying to learn