How Your Attachment Style Impacts Sex

How Your Attachment Style Impacts Sex

Our attachment styles indicate how secure, anxious, or avoidant we feel around emotional intimacy in our relationships. This aspect of emotional intimacy and trust around closeness and vulnerability can’t help but impact how we experience sexual connection. Some folks at Kourtney Kardashian’s lifestyle magazine Poosh reached out to interview me….

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World Sexual Health Day is Today!

World Sexual Health Day is Today!

Happy World Sexual Health Day! 🎉 This year’s theme, Positive Relationships, is a powerful reminder that sexual health goes beyond just the physical aspect. Sexual health isn't just about avoiding illness but about building healthy relationships based on trust, communication, respect, compassion, and emotional connection...

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Love Land - My Visit to an erotic sculpture park on Jeju Island in Korea

Love Land - My Visit to an erotic sculpture park on Jeju Island in Korea

Two weeks ago, I visited South Korea, and specifically Jeju Island. Jeju Island has been known over the years to Koreans as a “honeymoon island,” with its beaches, old volcanos, and resort areas. I was delighted to discover that there was also a place called Love Land, an erotic sculpture museum!

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Boyfriend? Girlfriend? I asked ChatGPT-4 for better words

Boyfriend? Girlfriend? I asked ChatGPT-4 for better words

I've long wished we had better terminology than "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" for adults who are not married but are in serious long-term relationships. So a male friend and I recently interrogated ChatGPT-4 to brainstorm new ideas. What's your favorite? I'll share our favorites at the end. 😂

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Why You Should “Bonjour” the H*** out of Your Partner

Why You Should “Bonjour” the H*** out of Your Partner

“You Americans are so self-involved and rude,” the Parisian said to me from behind his counter. He could have been plucked from the "indignant French hotelier" category from central casting.  My eyes widened and my cheeks grew hot. I was 28 years old and in Paris for the first time. I had celebrated the 2001 New Year…

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Permission to Embrace a New Facet of You

Permission to Embrace a New Facet of You

I have always loved Halloween and the excuse to dress up in a costume. This photo is from a party earlier this month with the theme of Glam Rock. This idea of dressing in costume and trying on a new character is related to my work in the intimacy and relationship field in multiple ways. The most obvious is role-playing…

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