Author Archives: Siren
Hands on the Hood!
I wonder if your brain went straight to the clitoris when you saw the title. Tee hee! While that title would likely make a great story, that is not quite what I meant. Instead, I wish to tell you a true, … Continue reading
Tagged As: bondage, casual sex, dating, dominant, fantasy, nsa sex, oral sex, orgasm, outdoor sex, relationship, sexual
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Spice Up Your Relationship From Day One
Many couples make a very basic mistake when they are developing intimate relationships: They wait until the relationship needs spicing up or saving before they do things such as wearing special outfits or role-playing. I argue that your relationship is … Continue reading
Tagged As: courtship, dating, increased libido, love, nsa sex, online dating, polyamory, relationship, romance, sex, shopping for sex toys, spice up your sex life, threesome
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Sometimes, I Envy Other People’s Polyamorous Lily Pads
Someone once described life to me as a swamp. He said that the good times are lily pads and the bad are the muck. In order to get from one lily pad to another, we either have to swim through … Continue reading
A Hormone May Cause Us to Bond with the Wrong Person
Have you ever heard of oxytocin? Also known as the “love hormone” or the “cuddle hormone,” oxytocin is most frequently associated with pregnancy, birth and breast feeding. (It is one of the hormones that pregnancy tests pick up on to … Continue reading
Tagged As: cuddle hormone, dating, love, love hormone, online dating, oxytocin, polyamory, relationship, romance
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Pornography as an Aphrodisiac
Most of us were taught that pornography is bad…or in the very least that it should be reserved for private, solo use. I challenge that lesson! I recognize that many world religions look down on lust and pornography, because they … Continue reading
Taboo Topics in Vanilla Dating
My mother taught me to avoid certain topics when going out on first and second dates. “Discussing things like religion and politics are not always the best idea,” she would warn. I have learned over the years that there are … Continue reading
Interpersonal Neurobiology and Internet Dating
It has been hypothesized that one’s character and personality are indelibly imprinted during the very early years in a child’s life. However, a relatively new field of science, known as interpersonal neurobiology, calls this theory into question. Studies in this … Continue reading
Tagged As: codependency, internet dating, interpersonal neurobiology, mental health and relationships, online dating, sex and the brain
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Depression and Dating
One of the most difficult things to do when dating is to deal with a chemical depression (or even just dysthymia). You see, doing so can lead to a lot of different things you likely would never have predicted would … Continue reading
An Adventure: Finding and Accepting a True Dom
I have experienced a lot of peculiar things in my life – some fantastic, some horrid and everything in-between. I took a leap a couple of weeks ago that has proven to be one of the most peculiar experiences I … Continue reading
Tagged As: bdsm, bondage, dating, discipline, dominance, dominant, master, submission, submissive
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Depression, Creativity and Alternative Lifestyles (Rambling Observations)
I have often wondered at how many of the people I know who have some alternative sexual habit or lifestyle also suffer from some level of depression. Many times, we are also dealing with highly cognitive people. Individuals who live mostly … Continue reading
Tagged As: alternative lifestyles, alternative relationships, bdsm, bisexual, bondage, depression, fantasy, fetish, fetishes, GLBT, hypersexuality, kinks, kinksters, masturbation, mood disorder, polyamory, threesome, voyeurism
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