Even Sex Parties Have Gone Online In Order To Survive Lockdown
It seems the once taboo subject of group sex is finally entering the mainstream. One of the reasons for this is the prevalence of organised sex party networks. These networks were formed to provide a space for like-minded people to meet in a secure environment to engage in ...
The Yoni Egg: A Key to Female Energy, Inner Beauty, and Self-Confidence
I first heard about yoni eggs in Thailand, several years ago. I was immediately intrigued by this small, oval, polished stone and wanted to learn more about it and test it. I was excited to discover a “women’s secret” that would allow me to free my female energy, reveal my inner beauty, and restore my self-confidence.
7 Resolutions That Will Help Strengthen Your Relationship In The Year Ahead
The new year is going to be better. It has to be better. Maybe you’re one of the 74% of Americans in one survey who said they planned on hitting the reset button on Jan. 1 and resolving to improve.
Humans Have Used Drugs With Sex For Millennia and The Reasons Are Much Broader Than You Think
On their own, sex and drugs are cultural taboos. Combining them only adds to our reluctance to talk about them. Despite its long history, our understanding of the relationship between sex and drugs remains limited.
The Chain Around His Heart -- It's Time for Healing
Two broken hearts ... and mending ten years later! This true story shows how the heart can be healed, no matter how much time has gone by.
Complete Union: Honor The Soul First
When a woman and man join, the coming together of bodies is the least of the meetings taking place. While the five senses are engaging in intense sensations, the minds of the two people are merging with all of their desires, aversions and thoughts. More important and more binding, the souls of the individuals are uniting, bringing together all of their hopes, dreams, sorrows; past, present and future.
Why The Pandemic Hasn’t Reshaped Relationships, Good or Bad
During the pandemic, relationships have mostly continued much as they were before, report researchers, though the happiest couples have seen a small boost.
Why We Need French-style Divorce for Lockdown Break-ups
The coronavirus pandemic has put new pressures on relationships and many are feeling the strain. With families locked in houses, schools closed and job losses on the horizon, it’s perhaps inevitable that this unusual time will cause many people to re-evaluate or end their relationships.
Loving Yourself through the Joy of Masturbation
My first post-marital relationship was a sexual turning point. Blake was an exciting man. At the time we met, I'd been off alcohol for three years, so we were both completely drug free. We started mainlining sex. I intended to explore sex passionately and in depth without the interference of church or state.
How Your Behaviour In Childhood Predicts Whether You’ll Be In A Relationship As An Adult
The question of how to find a steady romantic partnership is among the oldest human predicaments. There is consequently considerable interest in what factors might predict partnership success.
Tinder Fails To Protect Women From Abuse. But When We Brush Off Dick Pics As A Laugh, So Do We
An ABC investigation has highlighted the shocking threats of sexual assault women face when “matching” with people on Tinder.
How A Sexy Mindset Makes Partners Seem Hotter
We see possible romantic partners as a lot more attractive if we have what scientists call “a sexy mindset,” according to a new study.
Male Baboons With Female Pals Live Longer
Male baboons that have close female friends have higher rates of survival than those who don’t, a new study shows.
How Women Use Mobile Apps To Learn About Sexuality and Improve Their Sexual Relationships
New research offers an unprecedented look at how women around the world interact with dating and sex-related mobile apps.
Forgiving Means Releasing The Pain Associated With An Event
Forgiving means "releasing the pain associated with an event. You don't need to forgive the action, just the person. Your reason for forgiving is to heal yourself, not because it is something that you are expected to do."
A New Golden Rule and The Couple's Manifesto of Love
The familiar Golden Rule -- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you -- has analogues throughout the world's cultures. A better version of the Golden Rule for couples -- and one of the secrets to loving in flow -- is to do unto your partner as your partner would like, not as you would like or as you wish he or she would like.
If You're Thinking of Leaving A Violent Partner, You Need A Financial Plan. This Toolkit Can Help
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven a surge of calls to domestic violence support services, as survivors of violence spend more time at home with their abusers due to lockdowns and other restrictions.
Appreciating Your Partner and Being Mindful of Each Other
Do the best couples have any secret strategies for staying mindful and not taking one another for granted? Paying attention each time your partner reaches out in some tiny way, even if you must say, 'Now's not a good time,' shows courtesy and caring, and keeps you both current with each other's lives.
Here Is What Happens When Guys Add Their Cats To Their Dating App Profiles
If you’ve used a dating app, you’ll know the importance of choosing good profile pics.
Relationship Problem? Heal It or Repeat It!
Quite often, I spend time with people who are extremely critical of themselves for having multiple failed relationships. The truth is, they're missing the point: We can't fail, because there's no way to do these things wrong. A failed relationship, if you put it into its proper context, is a chance to...
Why Humour Matters More Than Good Looks With Online Dating
Online dating platforms have witnessed a surge of users and activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown restrictions and physical distancing protocols have changed the way people work and live — but also how they date.
The White Supremacist Origins of Modern Marriage Advice
When I was conducting research for my new book on the destructive aspects of modern heterosexual relationships, I started looking into the archives of early 20th-century books about courtship and marriage written by physicians and sexologists.
Speak To Me Of Love - Not Bills and Housecleaning
Foreplay is a 24 hour a day affair for most women, in that it is everything that happens between partners during the day. For a woman, foreplay begins when the couple awakens in the morning. From that moment on, everything her partner says and everything her partner does affects how she will feel sexually...
An Affair to Remember: How to Ensure a Committed Relationship
A third party has no power to break up a healthy relationship. No one can come between you and your partner unless something has already come between you. A mate having an affair is not the cause of a breakup; it is a symptom of a breakdown in the fabric of the primary relationship. An affair can be the most valuable wakeup call of a lifetime.
Don't Give Up On Your Relationship
Can any two people create and maintain a great relationship? You may not think so, because in your search for love, you've only met with failure and disappointment. You may have come to expect that any love relationship you have will end up being quite painful...
Share Your Secret and Discover Inner Peace
Quietly, to yourself, think of the one thing you most want no one to know about you. Maybe you had an affair, or a nose job; maybe you stole something once, cheated on your income taxes or had an abortion. Sometimes the dirty deed seems absurd. I had a woman confess to me in tears that years ago she had...
Why Marriage Isn’t A Ticket To Happiness
How much do love and marriage play into overall well-being? A new study quantifies the happiness of married, formerly married, and single people at the end of their lives to find out.
Cybersex, Erotic Tech And Virtual Intimacy Are On The Rise
The coronavirus pandemic is affecting sexuality and relationships. The confinement and social distancing measures protecting us are unintentionally exacerbating intimacy-related difficulties and limiting people’s access to partners.
Just What Is This Thing We Call Love?
From songs and poems to novels and movies, romantic love is one of the most enduring subjects for artworks through the ages. But what about the science?
Your Top 3 Ideal Qualities In A Partner Aren’t So Unique
The qualities people list as ideal in potential partners don’t really reflect personal preferences so much as they are just generally positive qualities, according to new research.
Why So Many Women Still Take Their Husband's Last Name
Our names lie at the heart of our identity. But in Britain nearly all married women - almost 90% in a 2016 survey - abandon their original surname and take their husband’s.
How Can I Love Better, Without Conditions or Expectations?
Love is enough unto itself. It needs no betterment. It is perfect as it is; it is not in any way meant to be more perfect. The very desire shows a misunderstanding about love and its nature. Love is not a quantity. It is a quality, which is immeasurable.
Why Cannabis May Be A Safer Alternative For People Who Use Drugs During Sex
Not everyone is a fan of rock ‘n’ roll but, for many people, sex and drugs make a great combination.
What Birds Can Teach Us About Choosing A Partner And Making It Last
Love, sex and mate choice are topics that never go out of fashion among humans or, surprisingly, among some Australian birds.
Dating Over Zoom? Don't Be Surprised If Those Online Sparks Fizzle In Person
For those dipping their toes into the dating pool during stay-at-home orders, it’s been like swimming in a version of Netflix’s reality series “Love is Blind.”
Here's What An Unravelling Economy Could Do To Couples
Social distancing and lockdown mean that many couples are now spending too much time with each other – and not enough time apart.
Common Misunderstandings About Preventing Pregnancy
Sex is one of the most natural things in the world – none of us would be here without it. Yet there are many things about sex that need to be learned.
Love Yourself, Then, Love Your Neighbor As Yourself
You've been inundated with erroneous information. It becomes terribly hard to try to figure out what's right. You're inundated by all types of moralistic behavior, commandments, church rules, and law. Behavioral modification is probably the most simplistic.
How To Listen To Your Loved Ones With Empathy When You Yourself Are Feeling Strain
COVID-19 has revealed a great many things about our world, including the vulnerabilities inherent in our economic, health care and educational institutions.
Transform An Ordinary Relationship Into The Precious Gift Of Creative Partnership
Our intimate live-in relationships offer us a constant reminder of the work we still have to do. If we are successful, we can transform an ordinary relationship into the precious gift of partnership.
Can Sex In Isolation Be As Fulfilling As Real Life?
The public health response to COVID-19 has placed unprecedented limits on social contact. Many people may go without physical sexual intimacy for an extended (and indefinite) period.
5 Tips For Communicating With Your Partner While Stuck At Home
Many of us are several weeks into stay-at-home directives from our governments and health officials.
Isolating Together Is Challenging – And Relationship Stresses Can Affect Biological Functioning
In the wake of COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home orders, young couples may find themselves spending more time with each other than ever before.
The Safest Sex You'll Never Have: How Coronavirus Is Changing Online Dating
When Tinder issued an in-app public service announcement regarding COVID-19 on March 3 we all had a little laugh as a panoply of memes and gags hit the internet.
How To Create a Caring, Nurturing Relationship and Be Cherished
Relationships need care and nurturing, and often it's hard to know what to do. You have probably been searching for reasons why your relationship isn't as warm, loving, and compassionate as you'd like. It is natural for relationships to have an ebb and flow, to grow more or less intimate as circumstances shift...
Coronavirus and Sex: Dos And Don'ts During Social Distancing
Given the common modes of transmission of respiratory viruses, engaging in certain types of sexual activities may risk spreading the virus. However, expecting people to abstain from sex during times of isolation is unrealistic.
Connecting Emotionally: An Essential Part of Happy Relationships
Whether people are struggling to save a marriage, to cooperate in a family crisis, or to build rapport with a difficult boss, they usually have one thing in common: They need to share emotional information that can help them feel connected.
Most Couples Are Less Satisfied When The Woman Earns More
Women are now the main earners in about one in four Australian households. This increase in female “breadwinner” households challenges traditional expectations of men and women and their roles in family life.
Young Men On Sexting: It’s Normal, But Complicated
Concern about the popularity of “sexting” - the sending and receiving of sexually explicit text messages and photographs - among young people has been a frequent point of discussion in recent years.
Notes on Intimacy and Having a Genuine Loving Relationship
Once you are in a relationship, how can you develop intimacy? One key is honesty. Some people tell little lies about themselves when they first begin a relationship. This is destructive to intimacy, because your partner will never be completely sure if you are telling the truth. It is much easier to maintain credibility if you...
Looking For Love On A Dating App? You Might Be Falling For A Ghost
If you unpick the threads, you will quickly find much of the falling occurred in the mind. Many artefacts that go towards creating intimacy are imagined.
Can Sex Affect Your Risk Of Getting Cancer?
The sex act has many health benefits from reducing stress and tension, to boosting your immune system. It may even affect your risk of developing certain cancers.
Why We Look For A Partner Who Laughs and Makes Us Laugh
Whether we’re looking for love or lust, we look for someone with a good sense of humour. Studies of courtship on Tinder and Facebook show that a sense of humour is the most valued quality in a potential mate.
Ancient Spells And Charms For The Hapless In Love
For the hapless in love, a yearly reminder of failed romances, unrequited love and the seemingly unending search for the illusive “one”.
Why We Desire Partners Who Have Had Relationship Experience
Mate copying (sometimes called mate-choice copying) is where an individual is preferred as a future romantic partner simply because they have relationship experience.
Is Love Just A Fleeting High Fuelled By Brain Chemicals?
It is no accident that arguably the most erotic line of English poetry is all prepositions. The essence of love, at least of passionately romantic love, is revealed in its very grammar.
The Origin And Evolution Of Love
Why do we love? At best, it’s a mixed blessing, at worst, a curse. Love makes otherwise intelligent people act like fools; it causes heartache and grief.
Dealing With Love, Romance And Rejection On Valentine's Day
Take care lovers, wherever you are, as Valentine’s Day is soon upon us. Whether you’re in a relationship or want to be in a relationship, research over a number of years shows that February 14 can be a day of broken hearts and broken wallets.
How China Does Valentine's Day
Americans celebrate love on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day — a holiday named for Saint Valentine, a third-century Roman clergyman who secretly performed weddings for soldiers forbidden to marry under Emperor Claudius II.
Valentine's Day: Gen Z Avoids Committed Relationships, Prefers Casual Hookups
As we lick our Valentine card envelopes and slip into something more comfortable, it’s a good time to ponder our sexual relationships.
Does Being Smart And Successful Lower Your Chances Of Getting Married?
The myth that educated women over 40 find it impossible to find a mate to marry prevails - but it has long been debunked.
How Asian Guys Are Stereotyped And Excluded In Online Dating
Many single people will be looking for their date online. In fact, this is now one of the most popular ways heterosexual couples meet.
What Makes A Good Relationship?
What makes a good relationship? A willingness to surrender one’s heart—totally and without reservation to your Beloved—and to trust that, when you leap together into the precipice of the unknown, you will be able to reach confidently for one another and find solace or joy in equal measure through that loving communion.
Where Will We Find The Love We Desire?
We experience repetitious patterns in relationship, work, or health; different actors are showing up to play out the same role. Eventually we recognize that it cannot be an accident that the same type of people keep doing the same things; it is we who have drawn them according to the signals we are radioing to central casting.
Where to Find the Love of Your Life
After many years of coaching and leading seminars, I have discovered two areas that most people ask about most frequently: prosperity and relationships. Most people are looking for their love mate, or, if they have one, are seeking a better connection.
Why Homosexuality May Have Evolved For Social, Not Sexual Reasons
How did homosexuality in humans evolve? Typically, this question is posed as a paradox.
Facing Ourselves: The Dynamics of Intimacy and Love
Despite the degree to which sexuality permeates the culture, the collective guilt of history can still be felt. We have been socialized to be suspicious of pleasure, to live removed from our bodies, and to maintain a tight rein over our feelings. In a culture riddled with guilt...
The Basis For Your Personal Happiness: Owning Your Relationship
I have asked people to list all of their important possessions, from top to bottom, and they all invariably come up with similar lists. Houses, cars, furniture, stocks... and other material goods usually rank highly. Then I tell them that they have overlooked the number one valuable commodity in their life...
Men With Sexist Ideas Of Masculinity Are More Likely To Abuse Women
Men who adhere to rigid, sexist stereotypes of how to be a man are more likely to use and tolerate violence against women.
Why Dating Apps Make Men Unhappy and Provide A Platform For Racism
The research found Tinder users reported lower levels of satisfaction with their faces and higher levels of shame about their bodies.
What Your Domestic Arguments Are Really About
Beneath most fights is an attempt to get the other to respond to your emotional reality and sense of justice.
How Young People Negotiate Sex And Safety On Dating Apps
Popular commentary on dating apps often associates their use with “risky” sex, harassment and poor mental health. But anyone who has used a dating app knows there’s much more to it than that.
How Do You Know When It's Time To Break Up?
Facing the prospect of spending yet another festive season with their romantic partner, many people start having doubts about their relationship in the run up to Christmas.
More Romantic Partners Means More Support, Say Polyamorous Couples
Polyamory is the act of engaging in multiple consensual, potentially long-term, romantic or sexual relationships at the same time.
Is Your Lover Insecure? A Simple Question Could Transform Your Romantic Relationship
Loving an insecure person can be frustrating. You always feel like you have to offer praise or reassurance.
Where Has The Spark Gone? The Real Reason For Strained Sexual Relationships
Over the last four decades, Joyce and I have counseled many couples who are suffering with their sexual relationship. Most of these couples also feel disconnected from each other. They think they can improve their overall relationship by improving their sexual relationship. This is usually a mistake.
Why Having Sex On The Mind Makes People Lie
With sex on their minds, people are more likely to change their attitudes and engage in deceptive self-presentation, research on sexual priming finds.
What Is Attachment and How Does It Affect Our Relationships?
Research across many years and many cultures has found around 35-40% of people say they feel insecure in their adult relationships. While 60-65% experience secure, loving and satisfying relationships.
How Do You Talk To Your Kids About Divorce?
Here's a stunner: 64 percent of all marriages that began in 1990 ended in divorce by the turn of the millennium. 70 percent of those failed marriages produced at least one child. Roughly half of all children born in this country over the past 15 years have ended up being children of divorce.
Experiencing Tantra: Spiritual Oneness Is Always Accompanied By Deep Love
Tantra is well regarded within the yoga tradition as the fastest path to enlightenment. Eastern legend holds that an average human soul takes 100,000 lifetimes to achieve enlightenment, but that with tantra, any person truly committed to this path can gain enlightenment in as little as one lifetime. I soon discovered why this is true.
How Psychology Predicts Where Your Relationship Is Headed
Is he or she the one? You know… the one to introduce to my parents, the one to move in with, the one to start a family with, the one to marry? At some point in every dating relationship, you ask yourself some version of these questions.
What Is Sex Really For? It's More Than The Obvious Reasons
Few topics arouse as much interest and controversy as sex. This is hardly surprising. The biological continuance of the species hinges on it – if human beings stopped having sex, there would soon be no more human beings.
Being Vulnerable in Relationship
The paradox of vulnerability in relationships, the path to connection, is to allow yourself to be both strong and vulnerable at the same time. When you do, it allows your partner to get to see the real you with your defenses down. This means no hiding. Not from yourself, not from your partner and best of all no hiding from the truth.
Thoughts On Creating Loving Relationships In These Changing Times
In today's changing times, we are looking for a better way to be ourselves, not someone we were raised to be. In this time of intense self-discovery, all others serve as our mirrors.
The Gay Gene Search Reveals Not One But Many
It has long been clear that a person’s sexual preference – whether they prefer male or female sexual partners, or both – is influenced by his or her genetic makeup.
Born This Way? An Evolutionary View Of 'Gay Genes'
The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furor in the 1990s. But new research two decades on supports this claim – and adds another candidate gene.
Sex Robots Increase The Potential For Gender-Based Violence
Sex robots made headlines after American comedian Whitney Cummings brought out her very own lookalike robot for her Netflix special called Can I Touch It? RealBotix
39% Of Straight Couples Now Meet Online
More heterosexual couples today meet online, research finds. In fact, matchmaking is now the primary job of online algorithms.
Love, Lust And Digital Dating: Men On The Bumble Dating App Aren't Ready For The Queen Bee
When love, lust and all things in between come calling, dating apps appear to be the only way to meet new people and experience romance in 2019.
Beyond Sex Robots: Erobotics Explores Erotic Human-machine Interactions
Science fiction films such as Blade Runner (1982), Lars and the Real Girl (2007) and Her (2013) explore the advent of human-machine relationships. And in recent years, reality has met fiction.
How Mindsets About Destiny Affect Our Romantic Relationships
If you listen to any number of love songs, dating “experts”, or plunge head first into a romance novel, you’re likely to think it’s in our destiny to find that special someone – your soul-mate.
Saints and Soulmates: Francis and Clare of Assisi
As we write in The Shared Heart, "The real soulmate is a state of consciousness, not a person." That being said, there can also be an outer soulmate, or life partner, an ancient connection with another soul where the primary purpose is serving together, blessing the earth together, more than simply loving one another.
There Are Infinite Ways To Have Sex & There's Nothing Unnatural About Any Of Them
Humans have discovered an almost infinite amount of ways to have sex — and things to have sex with.
Do Women Really Go For Bad Boys? Here's The Science That Settles The Question
“Nice guys finish last” is one of the most widely believed maxims of dating.
Where Birth Control Is Scarce, Young Women Create Sex Education Outside the Classroom
There have been times in Hannah Adams’ life when she’d been confused about her body and birth control. Sex education in middle and high school in mountainous eastern Kentucky was severely lacking, she says.
Do I Need To Shave My Pubic Hair Before Having Sex?
Do you need to shave your pubic area before having sex?
Is It Normal For Girls To Masturbate?
Is it normal for girls to masturbate and are there any health consequences?
What I Love Most About You...
How often do you tell the special people in your life exactly what it is that you love most about them? How often do you identify what's good about your spouse, lover, children, sisters, brothers, dad, mother, uncles, aunts, friends, and colleagues -- and actually put it into words so there can be no doubt?
Talking About Sex Is Awkward, So How Can Teenagers Just Ask For Consent?
The topic of sexual consent seems to be in the news on a daily basis, especially since #MeToo went viral one year ago.
Marijuana Increases Odds Of Couples Feeling Intimate
For couples who frequently use the drug, episodes of marijuana use increase the likelihood couples will experience “intimacy events,” according to new research.