Posts under ‘culture’

Scary Sex Addicts

There is so much wrong with this story, I don't even know where to start... Gentle Path linked to a story about an "investigative report" in which a reporter burst into a closed Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) meeting, cameras rolling, to attempt to interview group members. The only version of the report publicly available is one [...]

Review of The Sexually Confident Wife

When I received an e-mail from the publishers of The Sexually Confident Wife asking if I wanted to review it,* I was skeptical. After all, "sexual confidence" in our society usually implies acting like a porn star. I imagined a lot of Sexual Codependents' Magazine (ahem, I mean Cosmo Magazine) type fluff on [...]

Ambulance Chasing

"When darkness fell, excitementkissed the crowd and it made them wildIn the atmosphere of freaky holiday."~Simon and Garfunkel, "Save the Life of my Child"

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When I was working my very first real job out of college, a man walked in to a building down the street from my office. He [...]

Capitalizing on Addiction

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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 [...]