August McLaughlin's Blog, page 25
March 7, 2019
5 Incredible Benefits of Cuddling
“We make ‘hmmm’ sounds back and forth.” “He gives me giraffe kisses…” “He absentmindedly trails his fingers along my skin.” “I love it when they smell my hair.” These phrases appeared in an AskWomen Reddit thread, answering this prompt: “What is something your SO does while cuddling that you really like?” But what about […]
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February 28, 2019
Show Your Courage: Bringing Validation and Support to Sexual Assault Survivors
Every 98 seconds, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted, according to RAINN. By the time you’ve read this post, that’s easily five people. Every 11 minutes, the victim is a child. Numbers like these can make us feel hopeless. How can we make an impact when the problem is so massive? The trio of […]
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February 25, 2019
Possible Problems with the Love Languages
Spend any amount of time talking or reading online about romantic relationships, and you’re likely to hear someone, if not multiple someones, bring up The Love Languages. “Burritos are totally my love language!” Yes, they’re sometimes used jokingly. (Not that I don’t take burritos seriously.) At least as often, though, you’ll hear the term used […]
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February 20, 2019
Nadia Bolz-Weber, Amy Brenneman and 5 Things I Learned from “Shameless”
I was about five when I was kicked out of Sunday school. The whole predestiny thing we were learning about, God knowing all of our moves before we made them, confused me. So I raised my hand and asked a question of the teacher, who happened to be my best friend’s grandmother: “So we’re like […]
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February 18, 2019
Hotter Quickies: 5 Ways to Invite More Pleasure
In a recent Cosmo study, involving over 2,500 women, 77 percent of participants reported preferring penetrative sex that lasts more than 10 ten minutes. One in five of the women preferred longer than 25 minutes and over 20 percent prefer “quickie” style sex, lasting less than ten minutes. According to a 2008 survey of sex […]
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February 14, 2019
Open Adoption and Family Love: A Chat with Vanessa McGrady
Imagine adopting a baby after a lengthy process of soul searching and paperwork, and later finding out that the child’s biological parents are living on the streets on a cold rainy night in your city. Would you invite them to stay with you? Writer Vanessa McGrady did just that and explored the experience and more […]
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February 6, 2019
Orgasm Myths: Have You Heard this Biggie?
True or false: If you have a vulva, orgasms are the BEST in your thirties. Or how about this one? If you have a penis, every orgasm you experience will be basically the same. Or this: If you don’t orgasm with ease, or the “best” or “right” way, there’s something wrong with you. If you’ve […]
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January 30, 2019
5 Major Signs You’re Addicted to Love
Most everyone has experienced that punch drunk, falling-in-love feeling at some point. And it’s undeniably delicious. But what happens when you grow so dependent on maintaining that rush that it literally takes over your life? This is one way love addiction presents itself, as a physical and emotional dependency on those intense feelings and a complete […]
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January 24, 2019
Purity Culture and Sexual Shame with Linda Kay Klein
Imagine being fully defined by how sexually “pure” you are. Or maybe you don’t have to imagine… We’ve probably all absorbed this type of messaging in some way. And while the notion can seem a bit archaic, a whole purity movement and industry cropped up in the 1990s in evangelical Christian communities, and we’re still […]
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January 17, 2019
Blended Orgasms and a Sex Toy Making Waves
Imagine creating a sexual health product aimed at bringing more pleasure to more people and winning an award for its innovativeness, only to have the honor revoked because the device is, too, well…womanly? There’s a lot more to this story, of course, which is why I reached out to Lora DiCarlo, a company making headlines […]
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