April 2012
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Happy Endings (and other bad ideas)
Imagine for a moment that you went to a movie. The movie was about an alcoholic who wanted a bottle of whiskey.
That’s it. That’s the whole plot.
He gets close to his scotch, becomes thirsty, mishaps keep him from it, and he hurts other humans, damages them in his obsessive need to get to his scotch. He encounters huge obstacles. But through wit, charm, and deceit, he at last secures it, and...
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You're The Air That I (Don't) Breathe
The well-meaning health professionals over at NPR are shocked — shocked, I tell you! — at the latest terrifying “trend” among young people they are calling The Choking Game. The grown-ups have just discovered that kids too young to buy booze are getting a buzz off temporary oxygen deprivation. I don’t know what Amish farm these folks live on; my friends and I were hyperventilating...
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My So-Called Love Life
Publicly exposing yourself the way I have — the unvarnished truth way, that is, as opposed to the Chat Roulette way — also exposes a gal to certain risks. When my blog posts get picked up by AOL, for instance, six or seven hundred strangers leave angry comments accusing me of being an immoral, selfish slut. And calling me “selfish” really wounds me.
I just remind myself that these...
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If You Happen to be in Los Angeles....
American Cinematheque film screening of
“Shame” on April 17th, 7:30pm at the Aero Theater
followed by a 1-hour panel discussion with:
Alex Katehakis, MFT, CST, CSAT, Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex, author of “Erotic Intelligence.”
Chris Donahue, MSW, Host of Logo TV’s “Bad Sex.”
Ethlie Ann Vare, Author of “Love Addict: Sex,...
