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The Key Ingredient to Eroticism: Safety

January 16, 2018 | Family & Relationships

How do you get to a place in your relationship that celebrates the erotic? A place where the unknown is welcome, where private turn-ons are shared and play is encouraged?

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Here’s a Foolproof Way to Ruin Your Relationship

January 11, 2018 | Family & Relationships

Wouldn’t it be helpful to know the mistakes I see my well-intentioned clients making every day in their relationships? Now you can.

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Repeat After Me: I Resolve to Stay True to Myself

December 31, 2017 | Arts & Pop CultureFamily & Relationships

Making resolutions for the New Year can be a tricky business. If the goals are too lofty, you’ll likely fall short; if you don’t make them at all, you’ll wish you had.

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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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