Sex

Oma: Just remember, Danielle...Men are all the same. Why should they buy the cow if they can have the milk for free?!

Frustrated, I wonder - Who wants to be a friggin' cow, anyway, Oma? Doesn't this imply not only objectification and a sense that women are objects and commodities...

You or someone you know is having an affair. We know, it sounds surprising, shocking even, but apparently that is the case. Cookie Magazine and "AOL Body" did a survey on the subject and 30,000 people responded. As far as surveys go, that is a big number, and it's even...

The opposite of monogamy -- quick. Polygamy, right? Wrong. Polygamy is when one man has many wives (often with bad handmade dresses and a fierce need for some eyebrow threading). The correct answer is: polyamory -- literally, "having many loves." Doesn't sound bad in theory - lots of love, right?...

More than two years ago, I wrote "Portrait of an Open Marriage" for Tango magazine. It was reprinted here and in Cosmopolitan (Germany). It got a number of comments on Huffington Post and continues to get comments to this day at tangomag.com.

But a lot of...

Some people, including the New York Times columnist David Brooks, like looking backwards in history with nostalgia and a few sniffles of regret. They go to fine colleges, study history, and imagine they're in love with a perfect time of order and decorum and regularity. (See the Brooks column.)

Okay, the whole world pretty much agrees that sex is just about the best thing there is. Some of the time. But let's face it: it can get better. How? When? Well, here are 17 things that can be better than sex:

1. The anticipation of sex with someone you're...

As I sat in Starbucks yesterday afternoon, I figured it out. I figured out how to make the world the kind of "better place" that everyone's always talking about.

I was listening to a man in his forties talking to a young man in his early twenties. Scratch that....

Somewhere between the immaculate conception and Pope Benedict XVI's US tour, God has worked his way into the bedroom.

I, for one, did not see it coming, nor did I see it happen. But that's the way it is with God, I suppose. One day he's frowning down upon...

Attention wives whose husbands snore at night: you hold the key to shutting him up and aiding in treating his sleep apnea.

Not long ago, you might recall a comment I made about CPAPs ruining relationships in the bedroom due to their "unsexy" factor. The Continuous Positive...

I forget sometimes how lucky I am. How lucky I am to have been able to come into my sexuality the way I have, without abuse, without religious fervor, without judgment. But as I am having that thought, as I am writing it down, I feel sick to my stomach....

Progressive sex author Susie Bright had some questions for me:

Q. Paul, what's the story of the first "dirty picture" you ever saw?

A. When I was 11 or 12, my older brother, George, had somehow obtained nude photos of movie stars, like Rita Hayworth and Burt Lancaster.

"What are...