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A nice full body massage is foreplay that, in my experience, usually leads to sex. Foreplay can and should start long before you go into the bedroom. Per Merriam-Webster dictionary, foreplay has two definitions, 1. Definition of foreplay: 1: erotic…

On our first date after dinner my date said to me “I hope we are having safe sex tonight?”   I was naïve about sex when I was dating. Which is strange since I had dated in high school, college and was previously married.…

On Friday, Nov 27 I received an email from the “Facebook Security Team” that my account was not secure and needed to click on a link to secure the account. The return address for the email was security@facebookmail.com. I ignored the email…

When I was in my early 20s, I went with a friend to see a double feature at the Bristol Art Theater in . The movies were classic pornographic films, “Deep Throat” and “The Devil in Miss Jones.” The Bristol Art Theater…

I was 16 years old. My girlfriend of the time and I parked my 1964 Ford Fairlane on an empty street in a housing development under construction. After making out for a few minutes, we climbed into the back seat. Losing one’s…

In December of 1999 I met my wife on Match.com and have been happily married since August of 2001. Online dating is popular and has been known to be successful. Per a study done by the Pew Research Center, about 30% of…

The sex education I received in high school back in the 1960’s made me more confused than educated me.  I am an older student; I graduated high school in 1972.  No, that is not a typo but is 1972. Sex education has…

“Our history with nature as we found it is a history of war. Nature conspired to kill us...and we fought back with everything we had,” Jaime Metzel said in his book “Hacking Darwin.”  We’re still fighting, but nature has forced humanity into…

Neil Armstrong’s first steps weren’t on the moon. They were in Ohio. Each step in between somehow led to that immortalized footprint 230,900 miles above his first. Armstrong wore a size 9 ½ shoe. Slightly less than average. It wasn’t the size…

It’s not often you find yourself sipping a freshly poured glass from a local vineyard while studying a microorganism capable of withstanding the vacuum of space and cosmic radiation. First of all, it’s a blatant violation of every lab safety manual ever…