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Sexual Relationships

Why I'm Looking For A Friend With Benefits

Joan Price | Posted 04.25.2013 | Fifty
Joan Price

Sex without commitment can work if we believe it can, and we're clear ourselves as well as with our partners about the boundaries. Are we friends first, lovers second? Are we playing at romance, or refusing to let the relationship become romantic? Are the reasons that we want to be friends with benefits but not actual 'in-love' lovers clear and valid to both of us?

What It Takes To Have Great Sex After Marriage

Susan Orlins | Posted 04.30.2013 | Weddings
Susan Orlins

Sexual relationships are important to healthy marriages. But not every healthy marriage is the same.

How Old Is Too Old To Have Sex?

Susan Krauss Whitbourne | Posted 04.30.2013 | Fifty
Susan Krauss Whitbourne

How old is too old to have sex? 50? 70? 90?

The Thinking Woman's Guide To Threesomes

Thought Catalog | Posted 03.28.2012 | Women

There was a time when sex with more than one partner at a time was considered a nasty cesSTDpool of sticky, patchouli-scented nonsense. Or something g...

Libya's Sexual Revolution

Foreign Policy | ELLEN KNICKMEYER | Posted 12.28.2011 | World

JANZOUR, Libya - When it comes to love, Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya was unlucky for unmarried 33-year-old truck driver Ahmed Nori Faqiar. His looks wou...

Pop Music Is Human Nature

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 11.14.2011 | Entertainment
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

I've got a proud confession to make: I'm a pop music junkie. Drizzy Drake, Britney, Adele, Nicki, Ke$ha, you name it. I love it. But I've got to admit...

News for the Young: How Sex Can Get Better with Age

Beth Green | Posted 10.15.2011 | Healthy Living
Beth Green

The keys to good sexual relationships are safety and relaxation, and safety and relaxation are based on compassion and mutual understanding. These qualities do not belong exclusively to the young.

Lose Your Virginity Early? Why Your Marriage May Be Doomed

The Huffington Post | Stephanie Marcus | Posted 08.15.2011 | Divorce

There might be a new argument to try when convincing your teen to wait to have sex. According to the a study conducted by the University of Iowa, wome...

'Relationship' Is a Very Big Word

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Bella DePaulo

There's something troubling about the use of the word "relationship" that excludes all relationships but romantic ones. All other adult relationships aren't just excluded in the wording; they're absent from the studies.

Top 10 Reasons to Look Forward to Valentine's Day

Ethan Imboden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Ethan Imboden

Our modern Valentine's Day is still a holiday with benefits, some are just less obvious than others.

Slow Food, Slow Blog... Slow Sex?

Ethan Imboden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Ethan Imboden

I'm suggesting that we shamelessly co-opt the Slow Food mission, bending it to the service of our more prurient predilections.

Money Can't Buy You Love -- But a Recession Just Might.

Ethan Imboden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Ethan Imboden

Indicators as diverse as yarn sales and trends in prostitution are pointing to a more connected (and sexual) America.