The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English | Marriage 3.0 Here are my top ten words, compiled from online collections, to describe love, desire and relationships that have no real English translation, but that capture subtle realities that even we English speakers have felt once or twice. As I came across these words I’d have the occasional epiphany: “Oh yeah! That’s what I was feeling...” Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego): The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start. Oh yes, this is an exquisite word, compressing a thrilling and scary relationship moment. It’s that delicious, cusp-y moment of imminent seduction. Yuanfen (Chinese): A relationship by fate or destiny. From what I glean, in common usage yuanfen means the "binding force" that links two people together in any relationship. But interestingly, “fate” isn’t the same thing as “destiny.” Retrouvailles (French): The happiness of meeting again after a long time.
Mind Reading: What We Can Learn From the Dutch About Teen Sex (Updated) Teen birth rates are eight times higher in the U.S. than in Holland. Abortion rates are twice as high. The American AIDS rate is three times greater than that of the Dutch. What are they doing right that we’re not? For starters, two-thirds of Dutch parents report allowing their teenage children to have sleepovers with their boyfriend or girlfriend, a situation even the most liberal American parents would rarely permit. Healthland spoke with Amy Schalet, author of Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. What got you interested in the studying the differences between American and Dutch approaches to teen sexuality? I was born in the U.S., but grew up in the Netherlands. The other piece I’d noticed with my American friends is that there wasn’t a lot of conversation between parents and teens about sexuality, and there was a lot of discomfort around the issue. I agree. Yes.
It’s Time We Retire The Statement “A Real Woman.” Isn’t It? Do you see the image above? Is it really portraying an unbiased message? Not really. In many cases the new trend is to focus on the fact that we have become culturally obsessed with skinny and slim, to the point that we say that curvy women are real women while skinny women are not. Last time I checked, the word “real” referred to something actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; it’s not something that is imagined or supposed. In all seriousness, a real woman, and even a real man, is whoever we are. Imagine for an instant that we suddenly went the other direction completely and now “real” means being curvy. The image above is from Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign. Health Considered All of these concerns aside, I will admit that I don’t want the idea of removing what a “real woman” is to mean that all health concerns go out the window. Real Beauty One more step further, if we want to truly go back to “real beauty” this means going beyond the idea of needing makeup as well. So!
New Research Claims That Going Down On Women Is Good For Your Health | Daily Digest Research carried out by the State University of New York recently suggested that B.J’s can have a whole host of health benefits. The news had men everywhere celebrating. But it seems that women also have cause for joy now as some parallel research conducted suggests that going down on a woman has plenty of its own advantages, for both men and women. The research monitored more than 150 straight and lesbian couples, 75 of which were told to concentrate heavily on oral in their carnal lives, 75 of which were told to not to. The health benefits can be very real, though. The research also points to the sedative effect of the release of oxytocin and other endorphins, meaning it’s the perfect way to encourage sleep for those that suffer from insomnia or restless nights. All these health benefits are there for the person performing the act too, so it’s good for both of you! Of course, there are other benefits as well. So there you have it.
Tantra Is The Opposite Of Porn – Learning How To Actually Be Intimate We're creating a positive news network. We need your help. What if studying tantra could heal our addiction to Porn? What if tapping into our natural abilities to experience ecstasy changes everything? I was really nervous when I first realized that I wanted to teach Tantra. But then a good friend said to me, “Do you realize what you’re offering people? Porn is a funny thing. Besides the obvious violence and anything involving children, there are much more insidious issues: 1) What We Look Like Is Everything Porn focuses on being stimulated through the body. 2) It’s All About Successfully Pleasuring The Other Porn focuses on pleasing the other. 3) Connection & Intimacy Aren’t Important Porn has nothing to do with connection. 4) This Is All We Are Capable Of The worst part of it is that porn makes us believe that this is all that there is. THE TRUTH IS that we as humans are using maybe 5% of our sexual abilities. 1) We Are So Much More Than Our Physical Bodies 3) Connection Is Everything
What's Your True Sexual Orientation? The Purple-Red Scale Is Here to Help You Find Out When reality TV dumpling Honey Boo Boo Child declared that "everybody's a little bit gay" three years ago, she was unknowingly taking a page out of sexologist Alfred Kinsey's book. His famous Kinsey scale, which identifies people's levels of same- or opposite-sex attraction with a number from zero to six (zero being exclusively straight, six being exclusively gay), has been a favorite cultural metric for measuring sexual orientation since it was created in 1948. But even though asking someone where they fall on the Kinsey scale is now a common dating website opener, the Kinsey scale is far from an all-inclusive system. As Southern California man Langdon Parks recently realized, the scale fails to address other aspects of human sexuality, such as whether or not we even care about getting laid in the first place. So Parks decided to develop a more comprehensive alternative: the Purple-Red Scale of Attraction, which he recently posted on /r/Asexuality. Pick your letter-number combo below:
Le consentement sexuel expliqué par une tasse de thé Initialement publié le 19 mai 2015 Difficile de sensibiliser à la culture du viol de façon simple. Une vidéo de Blue Seat Studios intitulée Tea consent explique le consentement aux relations sexuelles d’une manière simple et accessible à tous. La vidéo de 2 minutes 50 met en scène plusieurs situations où des protagonistes offrent ou se voient offrir une tasse de thé, sous forme d’animation. La vidéo laisse parler une voix off qui demande au public de remplacer la tasse de thé par le début d’une relation impliquant du sexe. Si vous faites du thé et que vous en proposez à quelqu’un qui accepte, il n’y a pas de problème.Si vous proposez du thé à une personne qui n’est pas sûre de vouloir en prendre, il ne faut pas décider à sa place, ou la faire boire de force. La voix off ajoutera à ce sujet : « Le personne voulait du thé, et maintenant elle n’en veut plus. Si une personne est inconsciente, il ne faut pas lui donner du thé. « Les personnes inconscientes ne veulent pas de thé !
Whatever Happened to Sex Western civilization is in collapse. Every public and private institution in every western country, with the sole exception of Iceland, is corrupt. Government at every level is corrupt. Even sports, which once consisted of games played for fun, are corrupt. But not all corruption is financial or money-motivated. Consider something as ordinary as sexual relations between the genders. It is dangerous for a society to neglect erosion in its basis. I remember when sex was romantic. Another article in Cosmopolitan explains sex as “fun. Years ago in a waiting room I picked up a copy of Cosmopolitan. Playboy magazine has announced that it is ceasing publication of photos of nude women. Women experience “the gift of orgasm” more readily through clitoral stimulation than penetration.
13 Women In Long-Term Relationships Talk About How Often They Initiate Sex 1. “I’m always climbing onto his lap. Pressing my butt against him when we cuddle. Walking around the apartment in my towel. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Ecstatic Awareness Institute | How to Penetrate Her to Her Core And Leave Her Trembling It was a warm spring day in the adolescence of my womanhood. I was in a particularly feisty mood. My lover and I had just arrived at Whole Foods, where we were going to gather a picnic lunch. The store was teeming with bodies and energy and motion. I was sobered as he became suddenly still and his brown eyes locked with mine, entering me with loving force. Holding my gaze, he slowly extended his hand, took hold of my right nipple and squeezed it… gently at first, and then increasingly hard, until it radiated intense sensation that flooded my entire body. I will never forget his eyes. By now my entire body was screaming with potent desire. Instead he had penetrated me to my core and left me trembling, ignited and melted open. This brief yet potent erotic encounter was an early initiation on my journey into the boundless realms of “Conscious Sex”. A pure, naked gaze, a heart-drenched caress, or a soft, melty kiss can undo me for days. Anybody can jam a round peg in a wet hole.