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I know we said we weren't doing a video today but we thought we'd introduce our new Dodson & Ross mascot: Phineas

It's still not official but Phineas is over for a visit and Betty is falling in love.  He's 4 pounds of pure joy.  And those eyebrows....his hair matches Betty's.

I've agreed to take him with us when we travel.  We'll get one of those carrying bags.  I can't wait till he's our Dodson & Ross mascot.

Oh and the best part: he loves burying his face in Betty's crotch ;)

Update: Phineas is officially a "Dodson".  I just got off the phone with Betty and Phinneas made it into her bed last night.  It's puppy love.

So far we have dreamt of goddesses big and tall, animals with sexy bodies, and sex with Satan. So, of course this day was going to come.

It would take an entire book for me to describe just how excited I get by supernatural fantasies. Sure, I won't meet any of these monsters in real life. But a gal can dream, can't she?

For now, let's celebrate the top 5 sexiest things that go bump in the night!

Sure, I like to discuss all sorts of fetishes and strange sexual behavior. And you might deem some of these actions as unnatural or perverted. But, have you looked at our fellow four-legged friends in the animals kingdom? Mammals, lizards, insects - they all have sexual lives. While humans continue to differentiate the normal from the depraved, for these critters, it's just another sexy day in the jungle... or forest... or wherever they roam.

Even domesticated animals heed to pleasure when they feel it, as evident in my previous cat, Muschi.

There's a legislator in Albany who proposed that marriages would automatically terminate in 7 years unless you renewed them - no need for a divorce.  Marriage vows are changing to acknowledge that most marriages don't last a lifetime:

Kiwi couples are ditching promises of "till death do us part" and choosing what they consider realistic vows for their big days, celebrants say.  Many New Zealanders are moving away from traditional marriage vows, with phrases like "till death do us part" and "honour and obey" increasingly deleted from their wedding days.

A Christchurch marriage celebrant of 25 years, Anne Stubbersfield, said people were more realistic now about their chances of staying together.  Most still believed their marriage would be forever, but some vowed to be together just as long as their "love endures".

Kiwis still hoped for a lifetime together, unlike an Australian couple who reportedly vowed a "three to five-year agreement plus options" or another pair who pledged if their "love should falter or fail, I will respect you for the period that you were in my life".

The Independent has confirmed what we all know is true: women are asserting their sexuality and having sex for pleasure as Betty envisioned back at NOW's Sexuality Conference in 1973.  My favorite line:

"If we continue to be shocked by women going to sex parties, or using vibrators, then we are doing the female population a disservice."

Thank you, Richard, for the link:

Paloma lives in the basement of a tall, regal-looking building on a smart street in west London. Hers is a spacious studio flat with a neat patio area, just big enough for a potted herb garden and wrought-iron table with matching chairs.

I'm writing because I know of you Betty, because of my wife. She wrote to you a couple of times about advanced techniques for women, and you were wonderful in writing back. In one note, you called her "you darling little sex piggy", which made her year! Please indulge me while I explain my request: Rene has always adored you because you taught her what William Masters himself, live and in person could not - how to have fantastic orgasms that go on and on... after reading/viewing your work, she could extend one orgasm beyond what I'd ever seen a woman find. It was amazing.

Inspired by your revealed fantasy in last weeks podcast, here is mine. You've got a "scoop".

It is lunchtime and I just skied from La Masse a 3650 meter high mountain in Tignes, France. I am warm from the the morning action and the adrenaline is high. In a cozy bistro where the ski instructors take their half hour lunch break before going to the next class of students, I take my jacket, headgear, gloves and ski glasses off, go to the bathroom, reset my hair and put magenta gloss on my lips. I take the first layer of my top cloths off and I am in my black thermal sweater.

Betty talks about masturbating in front of her boyfriend, why that was important, and why every person needs to embrace independent orgasms. And Carlin was Lady Liberty. Happy 4th of July.

Adam & Eve

Christopher Ryan's piece below on hooking up begs the question, "why can't we have sex without intimacy"? Oh please! The word "intimacy" is so over used by therapists, authors and the society at large with no real under standing of what the word means. What is wrong with a sexual friendship? It sure as hell beats a committed monogamous marriage where the couple struggles to get it up for sex until they finally give up altogether. I'm so tired of all the cheap moralizing from people who's own sex lives are lived in shades of gray.

I played the commitment game until after I got divorced from a fairly sexless marriage. From the age of 36 on I indulged in delightful casual sex of America's Sexual Revolution. Today I look back on that period with love in my heart and gratitude for all the wonderful folks who shared sex with me. Those days were filled with some of the finest moments of intimacy I've every experienced.  Thank you Steve Otero for the link:

NPR (National Public Radio) recently joined the ever-growing list of media outlets and authors expressing confusion and poorly-veiled condemnation of what they call the "culture of hooking up" a.k.a. "sex without intimacy." According to these no-doubt middle-aged sources, intimacy-free sex is sweeping the nation.

The death of macho would also include the death of ultra femme. Personally I'm willing to let them both die a natural death simply from boredom of traditional gender roles. Eric says that macho will always win in the bedroom. Carlin says she likes a man who can volley with her. Me? I appreciate a man who is willing to take turns when it comes to running the fuck. Lately, I prefer just me where I can play all the roles but then I'm a postmenopausal gal who's seen it all.

The era of male dominance is coming to an end.  Seriously.  For years, the world has been witnessing a quiet but monumental shift of power from men to women. Today, the Great Recession has turned what was an evolutionary shift into a revolutionary one. The consequence will be not only a mortal blow to the macho men's club called finance capitalism that got the world into the current economic catastrophe; it will be a collective crisis for millions and millions of working men around the globe.

This week we decided to introduce the "combination orgasm". Why choose between vaginal or clitoral when you can have both?

Betty and I paid tribute to our fathers by recounting the two most memorable experiences we'd had with our dads. Is it really a surprise that they involve sex and booze?