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Identifying Your Family Myths and Seeking New Beliefs That Can Help Your Relationship

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Written by: James Creighton

Identifying Your Family Myths and Seeking New Beliefs That Can Help Your RelationshipCouples fight. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Sometimes these fights provide comic relief. At other times they threaten the very survival of the relationship.

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How Moms Get Bad Advice About Sex After Birth

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Written by: Joseph Paul

How Moms Get Bad Advice About Sex After Birth
Couples are getting the message that there’s a certain point at which they should start having sex again after having a baby, interviews show.

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Why Sexual Desire Can Spark A Real Connection

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Written by: Sandra Knispel

Why Sexual Desire Can Spark A Real Connection
Sex helps initiate romantic relationships between potential partners, a new study finds.

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The Benefits of Choosing Celibacy for a Few Months or More

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Written by: Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D.

The Benefits of Choosing Celibacy for a Few Months or MoreWhat brings a person to consider celibacy for a few months or years cannot be easily explained. It will take some time to reap the results of greater tolerance for sexual feelings without needing to act on them in conventional ways. Sex will become more of a choice than a need.

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Embracing Nature: Gazing and the Dance of Touch

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Written by: Will Johnson

Embracing Nature: Gazing and the Dance of Touch The practice of looking into someone’s eyes and holding his or her gaze stimulates the sensations and presence of the body so strongly that it can almost be thought of as touch at a distance. The primary reason that many people find gazing into another’s eyes so challenging and daunting...

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Accepting Homosexuality: From Shame to Acceptance

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Written by: Jesse Davis

Accepting Homosexuality: From Shame to AcceptanceI feel that now is the time to take a completely different look at Homosexuality! With modern science suspecting the causes of same-sex orientation to be genetic, it is time to dispel the myths of choice. When people are born a certain way through no choice of their own -- such as race, or looks, or handicaps -- should they be penalized by society? Is that fair?... I think not.

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The Secret to the Love and Joy of our 50-Year Marriage

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Written by: Joyce Vissell

The Joy and Secret of a Long LoveDecember 21, 1968 was our wedding day. It was the happiest day for me. After four years of loving Barry and having people tell us that a Jewish/Christian marriage just cannot work, we were actually doing it. I was marrying the love of my life, the man foretold to me by an inner voice when I was nine years old...

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Freud Versus Jung: A Bitter Feud Over The Meaning Of Sex

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Written by: Sam Dresser

Freud Versus Jung: A Bitter Feud Over The Meaning Of SexOn 27 February 1907, at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, Sigmund Freud fell in love. The object of his affection was Carl Gustav Jung: 19 years younger than Freud, the young psychiatrist was already the clinical director of the prestigious Burghölzli Hospital and a professor at the University of Zurich.

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To Really Appreciate a Woman...

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Written by: Joyce and Barry Vissell

To Really Appreciate a Woman...
Real appreciation is a gift of love straight from the heart, an acknowledgement of another’s greatness and beauty, and a way of showing your partner that you really care. Many women need specific kinds of appreciation. And many men don’t understand this.

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To Really Appreciate a Man...

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Written by: Joyce and Barry Vissell

To Really Appreciate a Man...
Find out what kind of acknowledgment means most to the man in your life. How does he most need to be appreciated? You may be surprised. Please don’t get the idea that men don’t need appreciation for inner qualities of being.

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Chi and Sexual Energy: A Path Toward Health, Vitality, and The Divine

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Written by: Mantak Chia & Wiliam U. Wei

Chi and Sexual Energy: A Path Toward Health, Vitality, and The Divine
Energy, like water, is the life-giving sustenance of the earth. Sexual energy is nourishment for the totality of ourselves -- the body, the mind, and the spirit. It is the water of life, replenishing the gardens of the human temple. Working with energy is a pivotal factor in our overall state of happiness.

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How To Make Sure Your Relationships Are Functional, Not Dysfunctional

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Written by: Helene C. Parker, Ph.D. with Doreen L. Virtue, Ph.D.

How To Make Sure Your Relationships Are Functional, Not Dysfunctional
A healthy relationship stimulates both partners' individual growth. A functional relationship is not a fairy-tale type 'they lived happily ever after' scenario; it is subject to the same stresses and challenges inherent in any human partnership.

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What Do We Consent To When We Consent To Sex?

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Written by: Joseph J Fische

What Do We Consent To When We Consent To Sex?Two men regularly meet at a sex club, so that one (‘the top’) can fist the other (‘the bottom’). One night, the fisting duo stay until the club closes. The lights click on in their sobering glory, exposing the prosthetic hand that the top has been inserting into the anus of the bottom.

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Prayer of Love For My Son On His Wedding Day

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Written by: Nineya

Prayer of Love For My Son On His Wedding Day
I pray that I no longer seek for the other one for I have found completion in me. And if in my solitary journey,  I happen to join with another soul, let our hearts merge because we have so much love to give... And if we find ourselves taking, let our receiving be based on...

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Feminine Wisdom and Aging: The Positive Role of the Wise Woman and Crone

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Written by: Kristi Meisenbach Boylan

Feminine Wisdom and Aging: The Positive Role of the Wise Woman and Crone
Times are changing, and for the most part, the word 'crone' is now accurately being used as a synonym for a woman who not only embodies postmenopausal wisdom, but shares it with the world. It is the time when the wisdom and healing of a woman's menopausal journey quickens in her heart, and her desire to share all that she has learned drives her back to the outer world.

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Love, Marriage, and Divorce: Rethinking How Marriage Works

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Written by: Stuart Wilde

Love, Marriage, and Divorce: Rethinking How Marriage Works
We can only trace romantic love back to about a thousand years ago. Prior to that, there wasn't any romantic love. It's an idea that has been invented, like a philosophy or a religion. It has been made very special.

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How Do You Know If It's Attraction or Lasting Love?

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Written by: Bonnie Eaker Weil

How Do You Know If It's Attraction or Lasting Love?
The image of the partner who is most attractive to you is buried deep within your unconscious mind. You began sketching this picture soon after your birth and before you were a teenager the composite was nearly complete. Your Imago has a dominant influence over the type of partner you seek, the way you relate to him, and how happy you will be together. The relationship script you wrote as a child is based on both the Imago you created and the childhood wounds you suffered.

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The Winds of Grace Can Sometimes Feel Like A Curse

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Written by: Linda & Charlie Bloom

The Winds of Grace Can Sometimes Feel Like A Curse
It’s been said that whatever brings us to face the essential truth of our lives may be called “grace.” Frequently, grace assumes a form that feels more like a curse than a blessing. It can be a life-threatening illness, the loss of a family member, being fired from a job, the kids leaving home (or coming back), divorce, a serious accident, or any number of possible crises that can be encountered in one’s life.

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Are Midlife Sex Problems More Common Than You Think?

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Written by: Christopher Quinn-Nilas

Are Midlife Sex Problems Are More Common Than You Think?

The most common sexual problem is low desire, according to a research study we recently published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Around 40 per cent of the women we asked, and 30 per cent of men, reported experiencing problems with low desire during the last six months.

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The Sexual Origins Of Patriarchy And The Radical Power Of Love

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Written by: Paul A Kottman

The Sexual Origins Of Patriarchy And The Radical Power Of Love

‘The world has always belonged to males,’ wrote Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1949), ‘and none of the reasons given for this have ever seemed sufficient.’

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How Technology Is Changing Sex

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Written by: Dave Parry

How Technology Is Changing SexAs the TV series Westworld wraps up its second season, the show continues to spark discussion about a potential future that involves lifelike sex robots.

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