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Karin Jones
Jun 2, 202424 min read
Biography of an Embryo
Artwork by Fontaine Capel By Karin Jones April 30, 2024 (This piece appeared originally in The Delacorte Review) People often comment...
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Karin Jones
Aug 31, 20238 min read
13 Ways of Looking at a Relationship
I've been dating for eight years. Surely I've learned something? The Wallace Steven’s poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird '' is...
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Karin Jones
Jul 17, 20234 min read
Sex, Lies & Laying Blame
Within one unfortunate year, I was contacted twice by women who were, unknown to me, having a relationship with the man I thought was...
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Karin Jones
May 29, 20235 min read
Directionally Challenged
No one on the street has ever told me I give good directions, but between the sheets this sentiment has come up time and again. Long...
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Karin Jones
Mar 5, 20236 min read
Relationship Ratios
Is there a formula for creating the perfect relationship? Not until we've calculated our own needs first. In a clinical setting,...
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Karin Jones
Feb 16, 20234 min read
Going to the Dogs
What if someone loved you the way a dog does? Could you do the same for them? I’m an unrepentant cat person. My son developed an...
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Karin Jones
Dec 28, 20224 min read
The Gift of Compassion
Compassion starts in the brain and extends to the bedroom I once arrived late to a school bake sale with my then five year-old son. When...
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Karin Jones
Oct 20, 20227 min read
Sex, Drugs, and Letting Go
How might recreational drugs benefit our sex lives and long term health? While dating a man who seemed happy making a meal of a single...
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Karin Jones
Aug 16, 20225 min read
The Beauty of Body Mapping
Our bodies change. So should the way we explore them. They say if you’ve spent 10,000 hours practicing a particular skill, you’re...
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Karin Jones
Jul 28, 202211 min read
Love, Virtually
How might we approach online dating less like the chore of assembling flat pack furniture and more like an opportunity to connect with...
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Karin Jones
Jan 12, 20228 min read
Anal-ogies
Anal play can be a leveler between the sexes, a space where we shed our armor, reverse power dynamics, and explore our capabilities as...
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Karin Jones
Sep 19, 20217 min read
Unpacking Our Baggage
Could taking a close look at our old wounds with a partner be the best way to learn how to love each other? The single most disgraceful...
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Karin Jones
Jul 5, 20218 min read
The Freebird Paradox
Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? - Mary Oliver A few years ago I was so moved by the biopic “Marianne &...
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Karin Jones
Apr 29, 20218 min read
The Cock Whisperer
Giving good head should not be about payback or getting the garage cleaned. At the tender age of eleven, having never been kissed by a...
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Karin Jones
Mar 25, 202110 min read
Bad Sex Matters
If bad sex is a political issue we must be willing to look at the grey areas. In a recent fit of anxiety over whether I was doing enough...
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Karin Jones
Dec 29, 20208 min read
In Defense of Sex Dolls
Sex dolls are part of the wonderous world of perversion. And likely less harmful than you think. Not long ago I received an email from a...
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Karin Jones
Oct 8, 20208 min read
Magical Thinking
I lived with my former husband for six years before we married. At the four year point I suggested I liked the idea of getting married....
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Karin Jones
Oct 8, 20206 min read
Choose Your Words Wisely
A few years back, curled up in the window seat of a rustic island cabin, I got a Facebook message from a woman I didn’t know. She was...
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Karin Jones
Jun 4, 20207 min read
Talk to Me, Baby
Understanding The Love Languages as a tool for becoming a better lover (and citizen). I once dated a man as generous with his compliments...
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Karin Jones
May 8, 20208 min read
How Culture is Screwing with Sex
Years ago I was, like many of us now during CoronaVirus isolation, getting to know a man I’d met online through text and phone...
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