Image credit: Photo by fd on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "The level of sexual imagery in modern life is astounding. I knew intuitively this was true, but when you tune into it, you just can't believe it. I click on the Yahoo! finance page, and there's this blond model in a low-cut dress looking [...]
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I Could Write a Book
Image credit: Photo by beX out loud on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few weeks ago, as I was poking around the Internet, I saw an ad that caught my eye. "Turn your blog into a book!" it announced. "Hm," I thought, "Come to think of it, I could print my blog and bind [...]
God Bless America
Image credit: Photo by 4NUM4N on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons There are times when I am so proud to be an American, it literally brings tears to my eyes. Sometimes that even happens late at night during the commercial breaks when I'm watching reruns on some obscure local channel. Since the advent of the [...]
Warning: Use of this Company Name May Be Triggering
Image credit: Photo by Ben Gertzfield on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I attend a weekly 12 Step meeting for friends and family members of sex addicts, and part of our meeting script asks that group members refrain from mentioning specific company names or websites in their shares to avoid triggering others. Whenever I hear [...]
Capitalizing on Addiction
Image credit: Photo by hellochris on Flickr A year ago, when I was trying to get through to my husband that we were spending faster than we were earning and that our credit cushion was wearing dangerously thin, he had a brilliant idea, "Let's get another credit card." Yep. We're running out of credit, we'll [...]
Wow, Am I Allowed to Do This?
Image credit: Photo byjamesjordan on Flickr When my son was born, the decision to quit my job was an easy one. I imagine I would still have left a job I loved very much in order to be there for that vulnerable little baby, who seemed to be telling me so desperately that he needed [...]
Google Broke Up with Me
You may (or may not) have noticed that my ads disappeared a few weeks ago. Google informed me a little while back that that they determined I posed a "significant risk" to their advertisers and that they were pulling my ads. They wouldn't tell me exactly what this meant (and told me not to contact [...]
Confident in her Sexuality
This post is the first in a series on women and sexuality in our culture, which will touch on (Velvet Verbosity, are you paying attention?) the long awaited topic of porn (though they will swing broader, because that's the way my mind rolls). This particular post is about wedding dress marketing, and before I start [...]
