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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 11 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 10 min
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, 2020
- 8 min
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, 2020
- 8 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 8 min
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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Karin Jones
- Apr 2, 2020
- 7 min
Love in the Time of CoronaVirus
Has social isolation made you reconsider your loving priorities? Just as CoronaVirus was overwhelming the world, I burst into tears while...
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Karin Jones
- Feb 29, 2020
- 8 min
Menopause for Men
The last time I took a pregnancy test, my partner sat next to me on the edge of the tub and we held our collective breath waiting for...
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Karin Jones
- Jan 14, 2020
- 5 min
On Asking (and Listening)
"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me." W.H. Auden Last year I made a simple, low risk New Year’s resolution: I...
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Karin Jones
- Nov 28, 2019
- 5 min
Oral History
We humans have always licked each other's genitals. It's our attitude about oral sex which has changed over the centuries. The first time...
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Karin Jones
- Oct 17, 2019
- 6 min
Polylandia
Does being polyamorous require a particular personality? The first time a man I was dating confirmed he’d slept with another woman, a...
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Karin Jones
- Sep 27, 2019
- 5 min
The Fascination Equation
The Special Sauce of love may simply be staying fascinated with your partner I used to have a few rules about the men I ‘liked’ on dating...
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