This morning I watched the “Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss for Teens” on Good Morning America and my jaw hit the ground. While I had been hearing about teens getting caught having sex at school and in some cases out near where I live one teen had been raped in the girl’s bathroom, another (wasn’t raped) but gave “head” to another student for answers on a test.
I was blown away even more when I told my husband and he told me it wasn’t a shock to hear the girl had been raped in the girl’s bathroom, that it …read more

Am I alone in hating these Nivea lip balm kissing commercials?

I know, I’m despising them for one very simple reason: I’m not getting kissed like that. I don’t know if I’ve been kissed like that in a very long time. In fact, I can sit here and quite fondly remember when I was kissed like that, by whom, and how much I absolutely fell in love with him when he did kiss me like that. And it was like, 9 years ago.
But I’m not being kissed like that NOW.
I haven’t been in a long time.
Damn these friggin’ romantic-y mushy love …read more

Say you get lucky during eHarmony’s free communication weekend.   You find the man of your dreams, but the kiss of your nightmares.  What’s a girl to do?  Here are some tips to help you with a less than stellar kisser:
Make the first move. If you lead the way, you are more likely to be able to set the tone kissing style-wise.  I know it’s not the traditional way to go about things, but I’m a go-for-it girl from way back and I’ve never kissed someone first and not been glad that I did.  If it’s great – wonderful – if it’s not, …read more

It’s a defining moment of any romantic relationship. But don’t you sometimes wonder how humans learned to derive shared pleasure from locking lips?
Suite101.com has a thorough article covering the anthropological origins of the kiss:
So who invented kissing? Anthropologists think kissing’s origins are to be found in primitive times when mothers chewed food and transferred it directly from their mouths to their babies’ mouths, a method of preparing baby food that is still practiced in some cultures today. Another theory comes from the Ziller Valley of Central Europe where pre-chewed tobacco was exchanged between males and females. The man would hold …read more

Celebrating Valentine’s, the norm is for couples to go out on romantic dates, i.e. candlelit dinner, complete with roses and chocolates or perhaps a trinket or two. But for some, this day means a chance to be part of something to break the world record — they join thousands of other couples kissing for one minute in Lovapalooza.
Yes. Lovapalooza is an annual event held all over the world on Valentine’s Day (or on any date close to it) and its sole purpose is to break a Guinness World Record by gathering as much couples as they can and have them …read more