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The Intimate Life of a Pole Dancer
Posted on 03. Dec, 2011 by Staff Reporter.
Chwenny confesses, “As a teenager, an appropriate description of me would have been ‘super-girly-girl-meets-whimpy-nerd.’ I avoided all forms of sports like the plague and thought that exercise was only for people who needed to lose weight.”
Then, in her mid-twenties she discovered yoga and realized that , “…it was practiced in bare feet (no ugly trainers required, yay!) and every class ends in lying down,” she was sold. Yoga got her to connect with her body, but she was looking for more. Ballet? Hip-hop? Belly dancing? …all rejected as too formal, too hard or too silly.
“Then I saw pole dancing,” Chwenny says. “…sensuality, grace, girly-ness, and spiked heels. Very interesting!”
I have added her Website to our blogroll for those readers who are interested in getting first hand insights from a pole dancer. She is dedicated, delightful and Chwenny even has her own YouTube Channel.
“Suddenly, I’ve found a form of exercise that I can’t get enough of!” She says she can, “…still act like a super girly girl, and I’m still a whimpy little nerd at heart who hates sports, but I can lift my own body weight on a vertical metal pole now while wearing 5″ heels.”
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Author Amara Charles Reveals Quodoushka from the Inside Out, Book Release Party Sept 27
Posted on 06. Sep, 2011 by Staff Reporter.
“Sexual Practices of Quodoushka: Teachings from the Nagual Tradition” by Amara Charles official release set for Tuesday, September 27.
Make plans to join us on September 27 at 9 am EDT for Amara’s Virtual Book Launch… an online Web party celebrating the launch of ‘The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka.’ It’s a one-hour worldwide Web chat where you can join with invited guests in a live chat dialogue. It’s also a great way to connect personally with author and teacher Amara Charles.
To celebrate and help Amara’s book hit #1 on Amazon on the magic launch day, we’re asking everyone to wait to buy their copy of ‘The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka’ on September 27, 2011! Having a great surge on Amazon makes a huge difference to the book’s worldwide availability and longevity.
Space in the Virtual Book Launch Party at 9 am EDT is limited. In order to participate, you must reserve your spot in advance. Click to register. Connect with Amara and the following special guests in this one-hour worldwide Web chat:
- Thunder Strikes, founder and pioneer of the Quodoushka teachings
- Peter Thomas, Australia Quodoushka Organizer
- Kamala Devi, Tantra Theater and Mistress Sacred Bliss Coach
- Kristen Viken, Shamanic De-armoring Master Facilitator
- Pamela Madsen, NYT best-selling author
- Steven Barnes, NYT best-selling science fiction author
“In Amara Charles’s brave new book, The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka, she introduces us to the little known world of sexual healing known at Quodoushka. You don’t need to be a Tantra Geek, or a New Age bindi-wearing goddess to find this book transformational. Inside it’s easy to read pages, you will find a compassionate and extraordinary way to learn about sex. If you are ready to go deeper into your own sexuality – pick up this book.” – Pamela Madsen, author of Shameless: How I Ditched The Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure and Somehow Got Home in Time To Cook Dinner
“Quodoushka’s Fire Breath full-body orgasm was absolutely the most valuable thing I ever learned about sex. This hotly anticipated brave book is a treasure trove of wisdom that raises the bar on sex education. Amara Charles knows these practices intimately, and her enthusiasm for her subject rubs off. Great for beginners to advanced.” – Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., author of Dr. Sprinkle’s Spectacular Sex
“The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka beautifully complements the ancient knowledge of the Taoist shaman. These transformational teachings reveal ways to deepen and strengthen relationships and offer a means to access the universal healing forces of creation.” – Master Mantak Chia, author of Healing Love through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy and Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy
Remember, you must register in advance to participate in the live one-hour worldwide Web chat with Amara Charles and friends.
If you are in the Phoenix, AZ region, come to the live Book Signing Party on September 27 at 8pm including: music, food, RPC fundraiser. Details TBA at www.AmaraCharles.com.
“In The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka, Amara Charles captures the essence of intimacy. From personal experience, I can say unequivocally that she is brilliant, knowledgeable, and an absolute cauldron of vital energy. This book will guide you to become a more caring lover, free blocked energy, and delight in your body to align your human, animal, and spiritual aspects. Charles’ explanations of sexual anatomy types is a genuine revelation. The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka can make a quantum shift in the way you approach sex and intimacy.” – Steven Barnes, NYT best selling author, lecturer and martial artist
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Louisiana Remains Safe from Crimes Against Nature
Posted on 18. Feb, 2011 by Staff Reporter.
This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq. and the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Law Clinic filed a federal civil rights complaint challenging the continuing use of Louisiana’s 206 year-old Crime Against Nature statute that brands people who solicit oral and anal sex as sex offenders.
The statute criminalizes individuals who offer or agree to have oral or anal sex for money by requiring them to register as a sex offender upon conviction, while a conviction under Louisiana’s prostitution statute triggers no such requirement. This archaic and discriminatory law is founded on moral disapproval and outdated notions of what kinds of sex acts are acceptable.
Doe v. Jindal was filed in the United States District Court Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans on behalf of nine anonymous plaintiffs. Some of the plaintiffs have multiple convictions of Crime Against Nature by Solicitation and as a result must register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives. The lawsuit alleges that being forced to register as a sex offender because of a Crime Against Nature conviction (which is the only offense requiring registration that includes no element of force, coercion, lack of consent, use of a weapon, or the involvement of a minor) serves no legitimate purpose whatsoever. As such, it is unjustifiable and unconstitutional.
Learn more about the Crime Against Nature Statute. Read Eight Years After Lawrence, Sodomy Laws Are Alive and Kicking, a blog post by CCR Staff Attorney Alexis Agathocleous.
Center for Constitutional Rights
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Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyamory and the Triad of Lou Andreas-Salomé
Posted on 28. Jan, 2011 by Stephen Kastner.
Wittgenstein once wrote, “If you believe that our concepts are the right ones, the ones suited to intelligent human beings, that anyone with different ones would not realize something that we realize, then imagine certain general facts of nature different from the way they are and conceptual structures different from our own will appear natural to you.”
Lou Andreas-Salomé
“Everybody’s gotta learn sometimes,” says the Beck lyric that launches the film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Each day I awake to a dream thread, a thin filament that I can choose to follow or ignore. If my eternally busy chatter-mind starts to take over… the dream’s filament thread is surely lost. But, if I immediately concentrate and begin to gently pull, tracing the thread in a state of no-mind, I am rewarded with gifts and surprises.
A few days ago, it was one of those traced threads that led me to discover and learn more about a Russian lover named Lou… and a very powerful triforce. Lou Andreas-Salomé was at the core of a ménage à trois that included Paul Ree and Friedrich Nietzsche. She went on to have a lifelong relationship with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, 15 years her junior. It was Salomé who began calling him Rainer rather than René, taught him Russian, introduced him to Pushkin and Tolstoy.
Lou Andreas-Salomé, Paul Ree and Friedrich Nietzsche
All of which leads me to… Triad, a 60′s Jefferson Airplane song of free-love, that pokes at social norms in asking, “Why can’t we go on as three?” – a simple philosophical question about polyamory.
The Airplane song is said to have been derived from ideas contained in the specific works of Robert A. Heinlein that include: Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough for Love, Friday, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Number of the Beast, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
Polygamy (from πολύς γάμος polys gamos, translated literally in Late Greek as “often married” is a form of marriage in which a person has more than one spouse at the same time, as opposed to monogamy in which a person has only one spouse at a time. When a man has more than one wife, the relationship is called polygyny; and when a woman has more than one husband, it is called polyandry. If a marriage includes multiple husbands and wives, it can be called group marriage.
According to the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook, a 1998 study of 1,231 societies in world culture edited by J. Patrick Gray, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, it is noted that:
- only 186 were monogamous.
- 453 had occasional polygyny,
- 588 had more frequent polygyny, and
- 4 had polyandry.
It seems that somehow Americans have been deluded into believing the one-man-one-woman relationship model is some kind of global standard. It’s not. Perhaps if we can apply the words of Wittgenstein we might open up a crack through which a new vision of relationships might be considered. Click to listen to Maureen Cavanaugh, host of These Days on radio KPBS: The Future of Marriage and Non-Traditional Relationships.
The emotions that invoke, oppose or handicap open relationships have been documented. In Dr. Deborah M. Anapol’s book Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits : Secrets of Sustainable Intimate Relationships
Ninety percent of the animal world does not follow pair-bonding. As a species, humans attempt monogamy and usually fail. So why not redefine a new set of ethical standards? The UUs for Polyamory Awareness defines polyamory as the philosophy and practice of loving or relating intimately to more than one other person at a time with honesty and integrity. They are one of many organizations that seek to define new ways of making loving relationships.
According to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri, 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce.
There’s just one answer comes to me
Sister-lovers, water brothers
And in time, maybe others
So you see, what we can do, is to try something new
If you’re crazy too
I don’t really see
Why can’t we go on as three.
-Triad, Jefferson Airplane
Have you ever considered or been engaged in a polyamorous relationship? Please, add your comments below…
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My Vagina Is 8 Miles Wide… Storm Large
Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Staff Reporter.
Thanks to Dr. Dagny Boch for sending this my way…
Award-winning actress and singer Storm Large on YouTube… youtube.com/user/stormlargeofficial
Storm blogs, ” Seriously, “8 Miles Wide” would still be just a big big idea (and the occasional outburst from friends and family members in the know) if it weren’t for the tireless creative megawatt team at Sockeye Creative. James Westby, Tom Grissom and Katie O’Grady, especially, kicked so much ass on this goofy little ditty born in my twisted brains.
Also important to thank – Wilf’s, Mary’s Club, Portland Parks and Rec., Mark Acito, Rick Emerson, Byron Beck, Kevin Morris, Laura Domela, Mary Urbanski, Brenda Casebeer and her trusty steed Brego, Kavita Jhaveri, James Beaton, Davey Nipples, Scott Weddle, The Jim Brunberg, Adam Lundeen, Steve Sharp and all the brilliant extras and personalities who so generously donated to the cause.
Last, but not least, thank you, Portland, Oregon. Your endless support of all things weird will always make you the coolest city on the planet. Bless your rainy and rosy wild heart.”
Check out the behind the scenes videos:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArNMGsigq4
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCz8PwSRZoU
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GanA1cnxIPE
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The Scent of Arousal – Licorice, Lavender and Love
Posted on 24. Oct, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
“Men: if you want to get your lady in the mood, skip the chemically-infused cologne or pesticide-laden roses, and find some black licorice instead,” says naturalist blogger Laurel House, in a recent Planet Green post. “Yes, the scent of the natural botanical is said to stimulate a woman’s libido more than any other aroma.”
Licorice - Glycyrrhiza glabra
She gathered her findings from a study, conducted by Dr. Alan R. Hirsch, neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, IL.
“One of his studies reveals that women who were exposed to the scent of licorice had a 13 percent increase in bloodflow to their sexual organs compared to a 1 percent reduction from the scent of men’s cologne,” Laurel explains. “Though the exact reason that licorice arouses women is unclear, Hirsch believes that it is either an unexplained chemical reaction in the brain or olfactory-evoked nostalgia.”
It seems that Dr. Hirsch is fond of measuring changes in blood flow to the sex organs. He and colleague Dr. Jason Gruss also initiated a recent study to investigate “the impact of ambient olfactory stimuli upon sexual response in the human male.”
Thirty-one men, aged 18 to 64 years, were tested. Dr. Hirsch selected 24 different odorants for the study. In addition, six combinations of two of the most well-liked of these were also chosen. The effects of the 30 odors on penile blood flow were assessed by comparing a subject’s brachial penile index while wearing an odorized mask to his average index while wearing an unodorized mask. This was done for each subject for each odor.
After being attached to a penile plethysmograph (which measures blood flow), three minutes were allowed for acclimation. Then a blank, nonodorized mask was applied for one minute while a baseline brachial penile index was recorded. The combined odor of lavender and pumpkin pie had the greatest effect, increasing median penile blood flow by 40%. Next in effectiveness was the combination of black licorice and doughnut, which increased arousal by 31.5%. The older men tended to respond strongly to vanilla.
The doctors offer several explanations, but the direct connection between odors and sexual response cannot be denied: “The odors may also act neurophysiologically. A direct pathway connects the olfactory bulb to the septal nucleus, which in turn induces blood flow and erection.”
Increase in Penile Blood Flow Produced by Top 10 Odors in 31 Male Volunteers
| Odor or odor combinationLavender and pumpkin pie Doughnut & black licorice Pumpkin pie & doughnut Orange Lavender & doughnut Black licorice and cola Black licorice Doughnut & cola Lily of the valley Buttered popcorn |
Average Increase40% 31.5% 20% 19.5% 18% 13% 13% 12.5% 11% 9% |
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A Kinetic Kinsey Report… Top Twitter Hash Tags Today #beforesex #duringsex #aftersex
Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
If only Dr. Alfred Kinsey were alive today… taking notes on Twitter
Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956)
I just glanced at my “Trends of Twitter” Google widget and noticed something new. Maybe I just never paid attention, but that seems hard to imagine. Nonetheless, today the top of the Twitterverse is dominated by the following sexual timeline hash tags: #beforesex, #duringsex and #aftersex.
In 1948 and 1953 the Kinsey Reports on male and female sexual behavior shocked the nation by talking frankly and for the first time about a subject that had been taboo up until they broke the ice. The greatest controversy surrounded the creation of the Kinsey Scale, that categorized sexual behavior from 0 to 6, with 0 being completely heterosexual and 6 completely homosexual.
Kinsey said, “Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories… The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects.”
The findings revealed, “11.6% of white males aged 20–35 were given a rating of 3 (Equally heterosexual and homosexual – bisexual) for this period of their lives. 7% of single females aged 20–35 and 4% of previously married females aged 20–35 were given a rating of 3 for this period of their lives.”
Kinsey further inflamed debate with his findings that an estimated 50% of all married males had some extramarital experience at some time during their married lives and 26% of females had extramarital sex by their forties.
Despite the efforts by many different conservative family-values and religious groups to discredit the Reports, together they have sold more than three-quarters of a million copies and have been translated into thirteen languages. Many people consider them to be among the most successful and influential scientific books of the 20th century. Au contraire, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male has been on two conservative lists of the worst books of modern times. It was #3 on the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s 50 Worst Books of the Twentieth Century.
Much of the criticism has to do with the sampling methods and the groups that Kinsey utilized for his studies. If only he could see the sampling data available on Twitter…
Twitter on Viagra...
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Fashion magazines are dead… Long live fashion magazines!
Posted on 17. May, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
Who better to lead the way in lifting sexuality from the depths of hard core porn to the heights of eros and the sacred than the fashion industry…
Tiiu Kuik
It started gaining steam last month with the appearance Tiiu Kuik in Marie Claire’s May 2009 feature (Pace dei Sensi or Peace of the Senses), uncovered quite nicely in Nudity: another fashion shoot without the fashion by Fashionising.com. They note a growing trend in Blogs > Fashion Diary > Fashion Photo Shoots on the lovely, lithe, Tiiu Kuik naked for Marie Claire Italia – again.
A naked Natalia Vodianova graces the cover of Vogue UK’s June 2009 issue… led by the fashion-transitioning of Playboy France, featuring Lily Cole in the October 2008 cover and inside, a 14-page photos spread, “Sweet Lily” (inspired by Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson album) with editorial by Xevi Muntane.
Gisele Bundchen
“Supermodel Gisele Bundchen once vowed to never pose nude; ‘I would never be naked in a fashion picture.’ So we have no idea what the pictures in Vanity Fair, May 2009 thus constitute. Perhaps being topless isn’t quite the same as being naked, but if so then what of this picture (above) where she appears to have forgotten her clothes altogether?”
For more on this wonderful shift, check out Fashionising’s editorial, with tons of links: Nudity and fashion: who needs clothes?
Italy, France, the UK… whassup wit dat? Why don’t I get to live in a grownup country? You can trace it all back to a very certain aggressive Middle Eastern cult, that currently has some very paranoid fears about other aggressive Middle Eastern cults.
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Naked on LiveVideo
Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Staff Reporter.
This is a bit Chaplinesque, but delivers the message… in Candid Camera style. Did you know that Woody Allen got his start writing for that show back in the 1960s and performed in some scenarios? I bet he’d love to appear in this one:
As Amara says, “It’s fun and healthy to flirt!” …but what happened to subtle? She turns the tables on Woody in describing her encounter with a younger man in… Reverse Flirting; The Unlikely Tale of an ‘Older’ Woman.
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Submissions Requested for Saturday’s New Moon Issue: Chakras… deadline Thursday!
Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
The second chakra is all about sex and creativity so… here’s a little 2-minute meditation for your inspiration:
Our first official release is set for the New Moon, Saturday, April 25 and the focus is on Understanding, Experiencing, Balancing and Empowering your Chakras.
You are cordially invited to submit informative, artistic erotica… articles, short stories, poems, photos, audio narratives, art, music, links to your videos. Deadline is the end of the day on Thursday, April 23. Click for Submission Guidelines.
We are also re-emerging on the Internet air waves with a new show on BlogTalkRadio. Please, let us know if you are interested in being a featured guset.
