The Science of Stress, Orgasm and Creativity: How the Brain and the Vagina Conspire in Consciousness “The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’” philosopher Alain de Botton argued in his meditation on sex, “the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.” But in his attempt to counter the reductionism that frames human sexuality as a mere physiological phenomenon driven solely by our evolutionary biology, de Botton overcompensates by reducing in the opposite direction, negating the complex interplay of brain and biology, psychology and physiology, that propels the human sexual experience. That’s precisely what Naomi Wolf, author of the 1991 cultural classic The Beauty Myth, examines in Vagina: A New Biography (public library) — a fascinating exploration of the science behind the vastly misunderstood mind-body connection between brain and genitalia, consciousness and sexuality, the poetic and the scientific. Wolf writes:
Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2013 2013 has been truly awesome for new queer and/or feminist things to read. Here are some of the best ones. 10. Amber Dawn combines memoir and poetry into something that is both at once as she discusses her experiences as a writer, sex worker, survivor and queer-identified person. In her interview with Ali, Dawn says: “Many memoirs cover a chronological time frame—travelling from the author’s “inciting moment,” through a sort of character or personal arch, to an ending resolution. 9. The Summer We Got Free is a fearless, semi-magical-realist queer coming-of-age story that also won the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for debut fiction. In a review at Lambda Literary, Dawn Robinson writes: “I will not give you all of the salient details of this layered, complex, and absorbing novel in this brief review—no spoilers here. 8. In an interview with Dan Fishback on Emily Books, Binnie says: 7. A.J. 6. In an interview with the Rumpus, Corin says: 5. In an interview with Persephone Magazine, Serano says: 4.
The Sacred Power Of Your Yoni (Full Body Orgasm, Cervical- & Multiple Orgasm) About Me Mahasatvaa Sarita is a Tantra Master and author of two books on Tantra. She teaches Tantra for both couples and individuals in 12 countries around the world, working with a Team of highly skilled co-teachers. She offers Tantra Teachers Training, a 7 level couples training, a Tantra Meditation Retreat and Mystic Tantra Massage Training among many other courses. Sarita is in the Osho Lineage, having lived in his community in India for 26 years. She received much personal guidance from Osho in the powerful alchemy of Tantra as a spiritual path. The Yoni of the Woman Is A Portal Into Ecstasy & Beyond The meaning of “Yoni” in Sanskrit is “Sacred Place” (= female genitals). A new dawn is coming where women are discovering that it is our birthright to be Goddesses, ‘she who knows the secrets of discovering heaven on earth’. An important part of the revolution from woman to Goddess is the Yoni. By understanding the attributes of the Yoni, we simultaneously discover true empowerment.
Mapping Emotions On The Body: Love Makes Us Warm All Over : Shots - Health News People drew maps of body locations where they feel basic emotions (top row) and more complex ones (bottom row). Hot colors show regions that people say are stimulated during the emotion. Cool colors indicate deactivated areas. toggle caption Image courtesy of Lauri Nummenmaa, Enrico Glerean, Riitta Hari, and Jari Hietanen. People drew maps of body locations where they feel basic emotions (top row) and more complex ones (bottom row). Image courtesy of Lauri Nummenmaa, Enrico Glerean, Riitta Hari, and Jari Hietanen. Close your eyes and imagine the last time you fell in love. Where did you feel the love? When a team of scientists in Finland asked people to map out where they felt different emotions on their bodies, they found that the results were surprisingly consistent, even across cultures. People reported that happiness and love sparked activity across nearly the entire body, while depression had the opposite effect: It dampened feelings in the arms, legs and head.
ILLUSTRATED SEXUAL ANATOMY – A DIFFERENT VIEW. | Thesacredfemale's Blog Sexual science, and even society today, views sex as a pleasurable activity. It is for many, and for many, not. Perhaps this is because we put the cart before the horse. The cart is pleasure and the horse is love. This different view of sexual anatomy looks at the various anatomical structures as energy producers, a more basic approach. One of the attributes of energy is that it can be transmitted. We will show the structures in the human body that generate this “hard energy,” the sensitive areas, and the nerve pathways by which this energy is transmitted to the brain. Fig1. Fig. 2 Electrical Schematic of Female Genitalia Nerve Pathways Pudendal nerve. Now, you don’t have to know these nerve-names, but as long as they have them, we’ll use them. The clitoris is the first structure. The drawing above shows only about 30% of the clitoris. The clitoris has roots on the inside. (Courtesy Museum of Sex, New York, NY.) This sketch only shows the part wrapping around the vagina. Pelvic Nerve.
Habits of Mind THE INDIAN MEDIA IS LIKE pliable dough. It can be kneaded, punched, stretched and rolled in all directions. If overworked, it turns rubbery, dense and inert. And if the hands that knead it are dirty, it becomes impossible to separate the grime from the good. In the past two years, there have been a number of examples of our institutions and politicians overworking the press. Within the media industry, there was plenty of grime. Having thought through some of the specific instances of the external punches on the media and the ugly impairments inside the media, large questions bog my mind. We don’t have—like a few democracies do, and like all democracies ought to—a well-articulated philosophical framework by which to think about the media, that would define to all—politicians, judges, bureaucrats, police, academics, media owners, editors and reporters—what the rules of the game are. The judgements were an affront to egos in the new government. “I don’t know,” Hutchins replied.
India’s Post-Ideological Politician The catch-all populism of Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party has proven politically expedient in India. Arvind Kejriwal is not a socialist. He’ll be the first one to say this. In interview after interview, Kejriwal, a rising political star in India, consciously distances himself from any left-wing associations. Yet the website arvindkejriwal.net.in (clearly run by a fan of Kejriwal, not the man himself) proudly proclaims that Kejriwal is a “popular socialist.” And while the Delhi manifesto of Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi (“Common Man”) Party is far from revolutionary, it is filled with proposals that tilt leftward: fighting the privatization of water in Delhi, building more government schools and imposing an upper limit for private school fees, breaking the stranglehold of monopoly capital in the electricity sector, replacing contract labor with permanent labor as much as possible, and empowering workers in the unorganized sector. But the Obama-Kejriwal analogy can only be taken so far.
The Problem With BeyHive Bottom Bitch Feminism | Real Colored Girls In Pimp Theory, a “bottom bitch” is the one in the whores’ hierarchy who rides hardest for her man. She’s the rock of every hustler economy and her primary occupation is keeping other ho’s in check and gettin’ that money. She isn’t trying to elevate the status of her sister ho’s. She isn’t looking to transform pimp culture. The bottom bitch is a token who is allowed symbolic power, which she uses to discipline, advocate for, represent and advance the domain of the stable. In hip hop vernacular she has emerged as the “Boss Bitch” or “Bawse”, titles you’ll hear used liberally across urban/pop discourses – from the streets to rappers to the hip hop, basketball and ATL housewives. Admittedly, bottom bitch is an unfortunate metaphor to use for framing conversations about Beyonce, but when you’re married to “Big Pimp’n” and his cameo on your new self-titled album, coined a “feminist masterpiece,” is all about how he gon’ you leave us no choice. Our work is not done. What are your thoughts?