We all know it… the whip of lust, adrenaline rush of wanting all at once or, as was seductively described by Maureen Medved in The Tracey Fragments… “One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you…
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Secret Love Two Centuries Away: Ludwig van Beethoven
It is July 6th and 7th, year 1812. Love letters, addressed to the “Immortal Beloved“ were safely placed in a drawer, to be found, unsent, in the composer’s estate after his death. Love and longing are almost tangible in each word he puts down, and we all, familiar with love’s pains and…
Don’t Be Fooled: It Is Not Only Humans Who Do Sex For Fun
Meet bonobo apes: along with chimpanzees human’s closest relative, the three species sharing 99% genome. chimp & bonobo & Darwin image credit: National Geographic Bonobos and chimpanzees diverged some 2 million years ago and have developed in quite different directions. While chimps are male dominated, strictly patriarchal society with alpha males and increased aggressiveness, bonobos…
What Dangerous Liaisons Can Teach Us about Connection Between Sex and Power
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde In his only novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses first published in 1782, with English translation first appearing in 1898, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos depicts the seductions and deceit in France high class society circles at the end of eighteenth century….
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