Gloria's Oversexed Mind

Awesome New Review of The Truth About Sex

It's a thrill, for so many reasons, to read the review my friend Race Bannon just wrote.

 

I have been promising to post a review for The Truth About Sex: A Sex Primer for the 21st Century for a few weeks since I finished reading it. So here’s the abbreviated version of the review:

Everyone should read this book. I mean everyone.

OK, with that said, read on if you want more details.

Let me say up front that Dr. Gloria Brame is a friend of mine and someone I have longed admired for her sound mind and wonderful writing. She is one of the most refreshing and qualified voices in the world of sexuality today and reading anything by her is a joyful experience. Her latest book, the first in what she anticipates will be a trilogy, is no different.

via bannon.com

 

What's so important to me in this review is that Race, who might not ordinarily pick up a book that talks about straight sex, connected with my overriding theme: It doesn't matter the type you have or who you have it with. Sex itself is critical to physical and emotional well-being. Sex is good for you. Skip those orgasms at your own peril: literally. In the next volume, kinksters will perhaps better understand my mission here: to liberate people from pigeonholes and anti-sex definitions, from all the myths and medical quackery that has distorted understandings of sexual behavior in humans.  

Ultimately, it is my goal to make the world a better place for people like us, and my way of doing it this time around is to start with sex from scratch and help adults -- whether straight, gay, lesbian, transgender, fetish, kinky, swinger, poly or something else -- build new, more accurate models of sexual health.

 

 

 

 

Do you have a copy yet? Volume 2 will be out in the summer of 2012.

 

 

Play Nice With Friends (#nude pinups)

 

 

Test your limits! (gorgeous vintage #hunks)

OMG, this is everything with three giant cherries on top.

 

Strike a Pose! (#nude pinups)

In your hose!

 

You can make your girlfriend pay (#lesbian spanking)

(for cutting out the nipples on your favorite bra!)

 

 

You can spank the day away (#lesbian spanking)

You might be the indoorsy type (#explicit bdsm)

 

and there's nothing wrong with that as long as everyone's having fun!

Perhaps you'd rather sail than garden

Russian postcard, ca. 1900

Why does a sexologist love a garden?

 It's the constant, eternal, invisible movement of life, and therefore of sex. Flowers doing everything they can to attract insects to their silky, juicy sex. Animals mating in puddles and in trees. The garden is nature's church where all orgiasts are welcome.

 

lone monarch in my garden

 

mating pair via Monarch Butterflies

 

Bees gorging on a gardenia's nectar

as the flower silently experiences its own secret kind of sex.

 

The forest thinks it's spring.

Frogs are peeping, birds are singing, buds are popping here in rural northeast Georgia.

In bloom in the garden now: daffodil, camellia, hellebore, daphne. (and pansies of course)

I can hardly wait for the azaleas to bloom

Thrilling, Chilling Detective magazines (4 vintage pulps)