So the moment has come: You want to buy a sex toy.

What do you look for in a vibrator or toy? What's good? What's safe? What will your partner like? What will he or she hate? Perhaps I can be of some help.

Incorporating "toys" into your sex...

I've been having sexual fantasies for as long as I can remember. When I was in the fourth grade, I dreamed that I was making out with Christie Brinkley on top of my desk. By middle school, I was fantasizing about the athletics director at my sleep away camp. And...

The Va-jay-jay. The Vagina. The Vadge (thanks, "Superbad"). All words to describe a body part with an actual name of vulva. 
 
Wait, you didn't know that? Let's repeat. Female genitals -- those parts we commonly label "private" -- are called the vulva. It is a term for the external female...

Any institution where there's no women around -- like the Church, like football, like the Middle East, like fraternities -- things go to s**t, you do need women as a moderating influence. When men are just among men, they do stupid things. That's just the truth.

Guess who...

Today is the 24th World AIDS Day. This year is the 30th anniversary of the first reported case of HIV/AIDS. And as this is my first official blog for the Huffington Post Women page, I think it's only right that I write about how women can make a...

I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised at Dr. Keith Ablow's recent commentary about J. Crew's Creative Director, Jenna Lyons. He clearly has a thing for her. Remember when she painted her son's toes neon pink? Remember when he stated that this image was part of a transgender agenda and...

Perhaps you have heard about the children's book, "Maggie Goes on a Diet," by Paul Kramer. Perhaps you know nothing about it. Well, I am happy to fill you in. Maggie is a 14-year-old girl who is overweight. She is teased, loses weight, makes friends and gets the "perfect" happy...

By now you may have heard that a new baby doll is hitting our shelves. But this isn't any old doll. It's Breast Milk Baby, the world's first breastfeeding doll, now arriving in American toy stores. (It should come as no surprise that this doll was created in...

When a politician gets caught with his (or her) pants down, it is like the Olympics for sex educators. Weinergate is a sex educator's dream; it gives us the opportunity to talk (both publicly and privately) about sexuality, relationships, and how technology impacts our sexual health. They are subjects we...

Bristol Palin is back in the news. She has admitted to having corrective jaw surgery. But some people don't seem to buy it. Now I have no idea if she did anything cosmetic, but I do know all about corrective jaw surgery. Let me take you on a...

In the past few months I have learned that many of my students think that infidelity is an inevitable outcome in a relationship, much to my dismay. (Sure, we have a cultural problem with personal accountability and a 24/7 news media that portrays celebs hopping in and out of bed...

It's like deja vu. I know I've written about this stuff before. More than once. Remember this one?

Fox News has once again sparked an insane and hate driven debate about gender identity and sexuality. The crux of their inane argument: Pink nail polish...

There's nothing I hate more than hypocrisy, except maybe our culture's willingness to tolerate violence but condemn sex. So lucky for me, I came home from a screening of Blue Valentine last night and got the opportunity to rant about both.

As a sexologist, I couldn't wait to see Derek...

Earlier this month, I wrote about the latest attack on sex - specifically, the concerns that Margaret Brooks, a Bridgewater State economics professor, has about Sex Weeks on college campuses. While the hysteria is unnecessary (but sadly unsurprising), her op-ed was published by The Chronicle of...

I am feeling a strange sense of deja vu. Over a year ago I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post entitled, Those Bad Breasts. It was a story of news program that included a live self-breast exam in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Needless to say,...

The latest attack on sex comes from Margaret Brooks, in her Chronicle of Higher Education article entitled, Sex Week Should Arouse Caution Most of All. Even the Washington Post picked up on the unnecessary hysteria.

But this time sexuality educators aren't being chastised for their...

One week ago, I wrote an article entitled, "5 Ways to Get Your Wife to Have More Sex with You." It is a short piece based on a digital guide that I am writing for Good In Bed.

Fox News published the article online. And...

Thought that would get your attention. It got mine, too. I turned on my television to hear the anchor at HLN talking about condom distribution for first graders.

I raced to the remote to turn up the volume. What I heard was a caller talking about the need to...

I received a request to appear on Headline News this evening to discuss an older, but particularly disturbing news story out of Leesburg, Florida. According to officials, two six year old boys were caught engaging in anal and oral sex while at day camp. Apparently, an eight year...

At first I thought it was a fluke. But then I heard the same story told again. Different friend. Different doctor. Same problem.

I have been telling students, peers, and friends to get tested for HIV since I was fifteen years old. At the University of Pennsylvania, I volunteered...