Since the works of Freud and Kinsey, mainstream awareness of sexuality’s spectrum has grown with every generation. We realize more now than ever that there are various shades of gray in a person’s sexuality and sexual orientation. We are learning new terminology every day. New terminology is being created every …
Having Children After 40
Now, more than ever, women are delaying having children until later in life. According to the CDC, the average age a woman has her first child is 26. Why has the average age creeped higher? One reason is that fewer women are having children in their teens. The CDC notes …
Bike Riding and Infertility
Bike riding has been blamed for low sperm count, erectile dysfunction, and even testicular cancer, but what does the research say? Can bike riding really lead to infertility, fertility issues, and erectile dysfunction? Like many questions involving health, the answer lies in the details. First, let’s be clear: exercise and …
Large Families/Many Kids are the New Status Symbol
It wasn’t too long ago when we could look at popular media and could tell instantly what class someone was by the size of their family. Many of us have seen the classic, WASP-ish, upper middle class family photos of two parents, two kids. A family restrained in taste, manners, …
Desire: Men and Women are Different
Sigmund Freud famously said there was one question he could never answer in his research. The question? “What does a woman want?” It turns out that modern science continues to have difficulty answering this same question. Female sexuality remains a relatively new and unstudied field. During the Roman era, when …
Sex After Cancer
Here are some key takeaways: Talk to your doctor about how cancer treatment will affect your sex life before treatment begins. Your doctor may be able to help you navigate treatment options that can better preserve your sexual functioning. Any type of cancer can affect your sex life, not just …
How to Plan for 2021 Without Losing Your Mind
Never has the world been more collectively ready for a fresh new year. After the difficulties of 2020, many people are looking at 2021 as their new start. A new chapter to write in better times and better memories. And many people start this writing with New Year’s resolutions. But …
Structural Racism Aiding In COVID Deaths
2020 seems to be the year pretense was blown away. Lots of us got to see our world anew as a global pandemic swept across our communities. As schools shut down, parents gained a new level of respect for their children’s teachers. As lockdown and quarantine measures spread across the …
How Millennials Differ as Parents from Gen X and Boomers
With every new generation, we as a whole get to experience familiar cycles of life anew through their eyes. But while the life benchmarks might be the same, the experiences can be vastly different because of the world the newer generation now lives in. The economy, society, technology all have …
How Childcare Can Make or Break the Current Economy
As we approach the end of the year, many are now taking a look back, especially at the last seven months, and taking stock of where we are and where we need to go. And a big talking point for many of us, is the economy. With the US debt …