Posted by Susan Walsh on Jan 22, 2010 in
Hooking Up Realities,
Tidbits
There’s a new site called Ranker that I discovered today when one of their guys emailed me with this list of the ten most bizarro sex videos ever. I get a lot of requests for links and such, but it’s rare that the material is worth sharing.
Oh boy, is this material worth sharing! I spent [...]
Tags: 1950s, sex ed, sex education, YouTube
Posted by Susan Walsh on Oct 20, 2009 in
Relationship Strategies,
What Guys Want
I hadn’t really planned a post for today, but I woke up to a couple of things this morning that I just have to share. Before lunch today I had already felt: moved, amused, proud, surprised, enlightened, horrified, sickened, shocked, bewildered, repulsed and consumed by paroxysms of laughter. In other words, there’s good news, and [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Oct 16, 2009 in
Tidbits
I’ve been thinking about advertising, and how sexy it’s gotten. Every time I turn around, there’s another advertising scandal. First there was the Quiznos commercial scandal — how large is the gay male market for Quiznos, anyway? Then came the Burger King print ad. Of course, using sex to sell stuff is not new. A [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Oct 7, 2009 in
Hooking Up Realities,
Tidbits,
What Guys Want
I’m off to visit my daughter, who’s studying abroad, but I’ve scheduled some posts to be published on my mostly normal schedule (M,W,F). I’m taking my laptop, but based on her crummy online connection, I’m not really sure whether I’ll be able to get to the internets. I hope to, because I love doing the [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Aug 31, 2009 in
Girl Talk,
Relationship Strategies
Are women unrealistic in their expectations of love? Do we demand so much from men that none can ever hope to measure up? What is the love that we dream of as girls, and can we ever really find it?
My own views of love were undoubtedly shaped, at least in part, by the many books [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Aug 19, 2009 in
Hooking Up Realities,
What Guys Want
Recently a college-aged friend turned me on to The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen (2007), a book she found disgusting and reprehensible in every way. She went so far as to say she hated the author. She was about 50 pages in at that point, and it was clear that she had absolutely no intention [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Aug 14, 2009 in
Personal Development
I’ve been thinking a lot about Seinfeld lately. In particular, the show where George realizes that his life is terrible in nearly every way. He has an epiphany of sorts — he decides to do the opposite. Every time he thinks he knows what he should do, he does a 180 and does the opposite [...]
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I need love, love
To ease my mind
I need to find, find someone to call mine
But mama said
You can’t hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don’t come easy
It’s a game of give and take
Diana Ross and the Supremes, 1966
In the most basic terms, a human relationship is a connection or attachment [...]
Tags: communication, connection, feelings, generosity, heartbreak, hooking up, hookup, love, men, power, reassurance, relationship, relationships, sex, trust, YouTube