Artwork by Fontaine Capel By Karin Jones April 30, 2024 (This piece appeared originally in The Delacorte Review) People often comment...

I've been dating for eight years. Surely I've learned something? The Wallace Steven’s poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird '' is...

Within one unfortunate year, I was contacted twice by women who were, unknown to me, having a relationship with the man I thought was...

No one on the street has ever told me I give good directions, but between the sheets this sentiment has come up time and again. Long...

Is there a formula for creating the perfect relationship? Not until we've calculated our own needs first. In a clinical setting,...

What if someone loved you the way a dog does? Could you do the same for them? I’m an unrepentant cat person. My son developed an...

Compassion starts in the brain and extends to the bedroom I once arrived late to a school bake sale with my then five year-old son. When...

How might recreational drugs benefit our sex lives and long term health? While dating a man who seemed happy making a meal of a single...

Our bodies change. So should the way we explore them. They say if you’ve spent 10,000 hours practicing a particular skill, you’re...

How might we approach online dating less like the chore of assembling flat pack furniture and more like an opportunity to connect with...

Anal play can be a leveler between the sexes, a space where we shed our armor, reverse power dynamics, and explore our capabilities as...

Could taking a close look at our old wounds with a partner be the best way to learn how to love each other? The single most disgraceful...

Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? - Mary Oliver A few years ago I was so moved by the biopic “Marianne &...

Giving good head should not be about payback or getting the garage cleaned. At the tender age of eleven, having never been kissed by a...

If bad sex is a political issue we must be willing to look at the grey areas. In a recent fit of anxiety over whether I was doing enough...

Sex dolls are part of the wonderous world of perversion. And likely less harmful than you think. Not long ago I received an email from a...

I lived with my former husband for six years before we married. At the four year point I suggested I liked the idea of getting married....

A few years back, curled up in the window seat of a rustic island cabin, I got a Facebook message from a woman I didn’t know. She was...

Understanding The Love Languages as a tool for becoming a better lover (and citizen). I once dated a man as generous with his compliments...

Years ago I was, like many of us now during CoronaVirus isolation, getting to know a man I’d met online through text and phone...