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– Babeland sex educator Cristen Kennedy on the ins-and-outs of consensual adult spanking in the bedroom, from our post: Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Blisstree’s Guide to Sensation Play During Sex
Yes. Feel-good reminders about grabbing your favorite hand mirror and spending some quality time with your vagina are certainly tired. But with the recent noise surrounding a simple act of body awareness on Dartmouth’s campus, you’d think the idea was radically offensive. On October 18, Mayuka Kowaguchi handed out mirrors to female students complete with notes on how to examine their lady parts. Kowaguchi was handing out the mirrors as a part of her training for an on-campus sexual advisory group.
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I don’t know how to say “déjà vu” in German, but the recent argument between German feminist Alice Schwarzer and Kristina Schroeder, the German Minister of Families, over the nature of hetersexual intercourse is making me feel like I’m in Women’s Studies 101 all over again. (If you haven’t read about it, Schwarzer claimed that sex subjugates women, Schroeder disagreed, and insults ensued.)
In 1987, radical American feminist Andrea Dworkin’s published the book Intercourse, sparking especially strong controversy with comments, like the following, that imply the inherent violence of intercourse: More
In a public feud, Germany’s leading feminist campaigner recently called its minister of families and women “incompetent” and “hopeless” — not what we think of as an empowering way to treat other women, but hey, it’s Germany, what do we know? When we read up on why they’re fighting, though, we started to feel a little more strongly: Their disagreement stems from comments by Alice Schwarzer, Germany’s foremost feminist campaigner, claiming that “heterosexual sex was hardly possible without the subjugation of women.” More
Mobile Disease: A new device could test you for STDs using only your cell phone. You’re going to have to pee on a USB drive, though. (via Betty Confidential)
Ladies (and gentlemen), start your vibrators. According to Lemondrop, last Thursday was National Sex Toy Day. If you’re a regular Blisstree reader, you know that we’re very much in favor of bringing sex toys into the bedroom, whether or not you’re flying solo. To get you in the mood, we put 11 of our sex-toy-focused posts in one place for your browsing pleasure. Whether you’re looking for an adult amusement that’s eco-friendly or just plain cheeky (pun intended), you’ll find a toy that’s right up your alley (ditto) in one of our 11 posts with a sexy slant:
1. Give a Hand to the Blowjob Queen: Read This to Earn Your Fellatio Ph.D.
2. Eco-Friendly After Dark: 10 Green Sex Toys Under $25
3. Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Blisstree’s Guide to Sensation Play During Sex More
The following is an excerpt from Moregasm: Babeland’s Guide to Mind-Blowing Sex in conjunction with our recent post: Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Blisstree’s Guide to Sensation Play During Sex
The Yes/No/Maybe List
In many of our Babeland workshops, we hand out a “Yes/No/Maybe” list. It’s a great tool for starting a chat. More like a game than homework. The rules are easy: Look at the list of sexual activities and put each one into a “Yes,” “No,” or “Maybe” column on a piece of paper. Just go with how you feel at the moment. There are no wrong answers, and you are not chiseling your choices in stone – you can change your mind later. When you’re done, compare answers with your partner and see where you overlap. More
By Helen “Girly” Brown
They say there’s a thin boundary between pleasure and pain, which may be why activities that blend the two can often seem so exciting.
The ancient art of BDSM (Bondage, Discipline/Dominance, Sadism/Submission, Masochism) — also known as “Sensation Play” — includes spanking, tying up your partner, handcuffing, and using various “instruments of pleasure” to create pain and other feelings of varying degrees.
“People ask me if spanking is painful,” says Babeland sex educator Cristen Kennedy, who recently started teaching a class on BDSM at one of Babeland’s New York City locations. “Everyone processes pain differently. The goal is not to beat the crap out of someone.”
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– Gynecologist and author Lissa Rankin on her philosophy of talking openly about women’s sexual health (and society’s reaction to it), from our post: We Probe Lissa Rankin, Author of What’s Up Down There? on Vaginas, Sex, and Aging
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When women aren’t interested in sex, it’s usually blamed on previous trauma or psychological issues, but researchers at Detroit’s Wayne University are saying that it’s the brain, not the mind that’s leading women to roll over and play “tired”. The researchers’ main argument is that women who have “hypoactive sexual desire disorder” (HSDD) actually have a different brain response to sex, making the problem physical, not mental. But skeptics say that the differing brain response could be due to a number of pre-existing conditions, including psychological and emotional issues.
Check out this post from Ian Kerner via AOL Health.
Whether you’re a man or a woman, your sexual health and your overall health are intimately connected to each other in more ways than one. At Good in Bed, we take sexual fitness seriously. A recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that erectile dysfunction is often an early indicator of poor cardiovascular health. Researchers followed more than 2,300 men for an average of four years and found that men with ED had a 58 percent greater risk of coronary heart disease.
Diet, exercise, stress management and nutrition all play a role in healthy sexual function. So are you sexually fit? More
– Gynecologist and author Lissa Rankin on heeding the call to help women in a different way than how she was trained as a medical professional, from our post: We Probe Dr. Lissa Rankin, Author of What’s Up Down There? on Vaginas, Sex, and Aging
– Dr. Lissa Rankin, on women and sexuality after 30, from our exclusive Q&A: We Probe Dr. Lissa Rankin, Author of What’s Up Down There, on Vaginas, Sex and Aging
If you don’t already have a copy of Dr. Lissa Rankin’s new book, What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend, you should. Rankin, a practicing gynecologist and founder of The Owning Pink Center in Mill Valley, California, sifted through thousands of questions from her friends, patients, blog readers, and Twitter followers to create a book filled with real questions about our ladyparts — including stuff like: “What’s the most common labia size, and please don’t say that all vaginas are different and special. Seriously, what’s the most common?” Her answers are hilarious, candid, personal, racy (she confesses everything from what her vagina tastes like to her STD history, something we’ve never heard from our doctors), and full of the real answers we spend all night looking for on Google.
We recently sat down with Lissa to do what everyone else wants to do with her: Ask questions. More
