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For the Holidays, Give the Gift Only You Can Offer

December 20, 2017 | Family & Relationships

We can offer simple, affirming gifts for everyone on our list — our significant other, our children, even our friends — by nourishing our spirituality and our sexuality.

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Recurring Questions About Sexual Harassment

December 13, 2017 | Arts & Pop CultureBusiness & EconomicsEducationFamily & RelationshipsPolitics & Law

In the past few months, I have routinely encountered a few of the same questions/comments about what others are rightly calling “The Reckoning.”

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Let’s NOT Engage in a Battle of the Sexes

December 6, 2017 | Arts & Pop CultureBusiness & EconomicsFamily & Relationships

It’s the easy — and altogether wrong — thing to do.

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For Transgender Awareness Week, Here’s How to Support Our Trans Kids

November 12, 2017 | Uncategorized

Help us celebrate Transgender Awareness Week by learning these simple tips to an open, honest conversation about sexuality.

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As A Sex Therapist, I Can Tell You You’re Asking The Wrong Question About Sexual Harassment

November 8, 2017 | Uncategorized

We need to stop asking when the wave of allegations will stop, and instead, we need to ask how it all began.

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When It Comes to Sex Ed, Ignorance ≠ Bliss

November 7, 2017 | EducationFamily & Relationships

Religious extremists tend to believe that if you teach abstinence — and only abstinence, without any comprehensive understanding of sexuality, diseases, safety, etc. — then teens will, in turn, not have sex. Turns out, they’re wrong. And there’s proof.

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Thank you, Harvey Weinstein and James Toback

October 31, 2017 | Arts & Pop Culture

While this is no love letter to these two men, I am grateful for the dialogue they’ve inspired — one about the intelligent management of human sexuality.

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But What About the Scary Sexual Fantasies?

October 30, 2017 | Family & Relationships

Sexual fantasy is healthy and normal. But of course, we all know that some sexual fantasies are scary — perhaps even borderline deviant. And if you’re concerned, I have ideas.

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Beware the If/Then Game of Sexual Fantasies

October 12, 2017 | Family & Relationships

Choices are real. Fantasy is in your head. And fantasy can be healthy.

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