Gender Bending Chickens?

Friday, 12 March 2010, 8:40 | Category : LGBTQ
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Just when you thought science couldn’t get any better, a new article in Nature is about to shake up our ideas of sex and biology.
Contrary to an old view of sexual development, Michael Clinton and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh say in the March 11 Nature, individual chicken cells can maintain their [...]

Do You Schedule Sexy Time?

Do you and your partner find it hard to make time for each other? I’m not talking about the “quality time” ya’ll spend talking, sharing common interests, etc. I’m talking about sexy time. Sometimes it seems like there isn’t enough time for sexy time at our house. One of my favorite [...]

Love Your Body; October 21st

Since October 21st is “Love Your Body Day,” I thought it would be good to focus this post on loving your body, loving sex and loving the pleasure that your body can give you (or you can give your body).
Every year, on “Love Your Body” day, I try to put all of my own body [...]

A Lazy Lesbian Mom’s Guide to Sex Ed Books for Kids

Monday, 28 September 2009, 8:24 | Category : Guest Writers, Parenting
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Guest blogger Paige Schilt is a dyke mama, a “low-femme” nerd, an activist, and a part-time professor of Feminist Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and has published scholarly articles on queer culture at the intersections of race and class. She lives [...]

Can a cream help intensify female orgasm?

Dear Stacy:
I have seen commercials lately about creams that can intensify the female orgasm. Do they work? Are they safe?
–Looking for Intensity

Dear Looking:
I love those commercials about the product that increases pleasure for both partners. My favorite is actually the one in which the woman cannot speak—her hair is a mess—she is breathing [...]

How to green your red hot love life, whether or not you use batteries.

Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 12:26 | Category : Safe Sex
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This past Valentines Day and Earth Day I found more articles related to having a “green” sex life than ever before. I put together this fun short list of the best articles/blog posts for my own blog and thought FFC readers may enjoy it. Hope it brings you lots of pleasure!
–Janice
In celebration of Earth Day: [...]

State Laws You Didn’t Know Were Screwing You

Monday, 15 June 2009, 11:15 | Category : Legislative Watch
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This will be a short post this week, because I’m working on something bigger for next week, so keep an eye out for that!  In the meantime, here’s a great article from AlterNet called, “15 Shocking Tales of How Sex Laws Are Screwing the American People.”
Most of these are Southern states or New York, though [...]

Give Me Your Sex: Dom/Sub Relationships

Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 8:50 | Category : Safe Sex
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AJ’s question from last week:
Is it healthy to want to be dominated in the bedroom, talked dirty to, even objectified at times? As long as those relations don’t carry into our every day lives, and are only practiced between consenting adults, is it a healthy expression of sexuality?
I just find it sexy to be subordinate [...]