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I love Mary's music because it's so real. On October 23, 2009 The Mary J. Blige Center for Women opened right here in Yonkers. The Center will focus on reaching out to young, single mothers who need help with parenting, education, and vocational training. I cried when I watched this video:

I met Shula at the Vulvagraphics show and knew immediately that she was "Dodson & Ross" material.  It was the black bustier, the red hair, and her brilliant mind.  She'll be blogging on body image/sexuality and relationship issues.  Here's her full bio:

Shula Melamed holds a B.S. in Communication from Boston University and a M.A. in Psychology from the New School for Social research.

It is from a variety of experiences, not only academic, but also professional and social that allows for Shula to speak on a number of topics regarding relationships, sexuality and self-presentation with some authority.

A new DNA test given to women as young as 18 can predict how long you have left to start a family.  At 36, I would totally have this fertility test done and know exactly how long my eggs were fertilizable.  Then I wouldn't have to hear my mother scare me with infertility stories.  God, I love science.

The breakthrough follows the discovery of a gene called Fragile X that indicates the rate at which a woman's egg supply will diminish over the years.

Professor Norbert Gleicher, of the Centre for Human Reproduction in New York, said: 'We can take an 18 or 20-year-old girl and check her Fragile X and make a pretty good prediction of whether she's at risk.'

I never watch Gossip Girl but thought about tivoing an upcoming episode when I saw the famed "threesome" promo.  The Parents Television Council flipped penning a letter to the CW network calling the promo "reckless and irresponsible".  

I liked the promo because it was the first time I've seen a threesome tease involving one woman AND TWO MEN.  "Serena" (Blake Lively) is clearly the woman in the man sandwich but you have no idea who the two men are....that's the point I think.

Meet Lawrence Lanoff - our new blogger on all things religious, cultural, tantric, and in desperate need of demythologizing.  Betty and I met Lawrence during our "Tantra Weekend" and I knew we had to have him write for the site. 

He has quite the pedigree starting his career in film (he directed over 10 feature films - I know) then shifting gears to direct films for Playboy, start his own beauty company specializing in non-smudging lip color (he sold a ton at the swinger conventions), and find himself teaching the finer points of sexual liberation and personal growth. 

What I love most about Lawrence is his ability to question, his willingness to engage, and his appreciation for all things woman.  And you're going to love him too!

Liz Canner took a job editing erotic content for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company developing the "Lady" viagara. Her experiences are chronicled in a new documentary Orgasm Inc:

The latest greatest:

A new study finds that men would rather look at your ass than your smile (yay for me).  Seems they prefer butterfaces (everything but her face) for sex and beautiful faces for long term relationships.

The Irish lilt was voted sexiest accent beating out French for the first time.  Give me some South African and I cream.

USAToday reports that gay couples are just like straight couples - they "couple" at the same age, make the same $, and have the same number of children.

I met Jincey Lumpkin at a special event at Kiki De Montparnasse. We met for lunch @ Park and she told me about the lesbian porn she was producing and now it's here. It's the best butch/femme lesbian sex-in-the-back-of-the-cab ever:

TAXI trailer from jincey lumpkin on Vimeo.

There's a new cosmetic therapy out that is a bit macobre.  It's called the "Dracula" therapy and it involves injecting your own blood into your face (at least it's not toxic like botox). The idea is that a doctor draws vials of your own blood, then separates it into the red blood cells, the clear serum and the platelets. Then, after vitamins and amino acids have been added, the enriched serum is injected back into your face.

This stimulates DNA repair, heals scars and makes dry, wizened, wrinkled and lacklustre skin look and feel younger naturally, without the need for synthetic fillers or harsh and painful lasers or peels.  Dentists have been using serum therapy for years to treat gum disease.

Invented by a woman and selling like hotcakes in the Netherlands I bring you La Decollette: the anti-wrinkle cleavage bra.  This is for women with real breasts who are 40+ or spent way too much time in the sun.  God, I've spent alot of time on the beach but I'm a B cup so no breast wrinkles here.

You wear it at night and it keeps your breasts apart minimizing the appearance of your breast wrinkles the following day. It does look pretty comfortable as far as bras go. It comes in black or white and inventor Rachel De Boer hopes it will help the millions of women with breast wrinkles (stop laughing)

Halloween is the witch's new year.  We all got together at Betty's and Barbara Carrellas did the ritual. The separation between the living and the dead is the thinnest on All Hallows Eve so we each conjured someone from the hereafter and then we wrote down on a piece of paper what we want to let go of and burned it.  

Here are the pics: flickr/halloween.

I never post before 7am because I'm never up this early.  But today Betty and I are shooting the next installment in our Sex Skills series: Manual Stimulation.  It's all about how to touch your pussy and stimulate yourself to orgasm.  

And it's an all woman shoot (except for Eric but he's one of us).  Anna, Jenny, Christina, Betty and me. We sat up last night talking sex and feminism at Betty's and it was electric. I can't wait to get to set. They'll be limited posting today but we shot our video podcast yesterday - I just have to edit it this morning. As Susie Bright says, "clits up!

I caught this on the wires yesterday and hesitated posting it.  I'm just sick of the f*cked up body image issues we foist on young girls. This sculpture depicts a 20cm tall girl with breasts that are five metres high and wide and it's INSTALLED AT A CITY PARK.  Parents are wigging out.  Its been defaced on several occasions - someone even tried to put a giant bra over the sculpture.  

One local mum, called Liang, complained: "The park used to be a great place for families, but now what attracts my son the most is the huge breasts.

Betty and I love resourceful women who refuse to be victims.  This story proves that wit and resolve trump force and aggression: 

The Athens Banner-Herald reported Monday that the woman scared off the suspect around 11 p.m. Saturday. According to police, the woman got on the floor and began scratching at the door and acting like a large dog when the suspicious man tried turning the woman's door knob.

The police report did not say what specific dog-like behaviors, such as barking, the woman mimicked.  The woman said the man, who appeared to be homeless, quickly ran from the porch.