April 2010
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Upcoming Events: Feminique's 2nd Birthday and...
Tomorrow it will be May, and this calls for a celebration. Two actually.
The first celebration is for Feminique Boutique’s second birthday tomorrow! I can not believe it’s been two years since the church scandal, two years since I met Tyler when he offered to help me paint the walls in the store pink, two years since I embarked on this absurd adventure. It’s also been two years...
Feeling Sexy and Grown Up
Getting promoted to manager, getting tenure, or the corner office, different careers have their own marker for when you’ve reached “success”.
When you’re self employed, those measures are pretty much completely self-guided. I think that moment of “I’ve made it” happened for me tonight.
I was contracted to speak at a college, and while that’s not a...
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Ode to the Clitoris
As a fellow sex educator and blogger so eloquently put it:
It’s the hokey pokey – it’s what it’s all about.
It’s two turn tables and a microphone – it’s where it’s at.
It’s a Visa card – it’s everywhere you want to be.
Other sexologists have called it “the emerald city of women’s sexual response”, or my favorite, “the center of the fucking universe”.
What is “it”? The clitoris, and as...
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National #&*! a Sweet Guy Day
So I think it’s worth taking a break from school work to share how it came to be that I decided to designate it National Fuck a Sweet Guy Day.
Since opening Feminique Boutique, I’ve been keeping an informal log of the most interesting conversations I get into with clients, the type I would never be able to have with a stranger if I did anything else for a living.
Last week I meet a log-worthy...
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Drowning in Sex Books
So here we are two weeks before the end of the semester, and I’m just waking up to the fact that I’m a doctoral student and have 6 assignments due which total about 500 pages worth of writing (no exaggeration), of which I have written zero. 0. Goose egg. None.
So if you don’t see or hear from me for awhile, it’s because I’m drowning in a pile of sex books at my...
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Hosting a Sex Show on Cable!?
The same day as my encounter with the pedophile (see previous post because that sounds quite bad out of context) I had another absurd sexologist-like thing happen.
The thing about being a sexologist is that some days are chock-full of crazy sexuality-related stories (like meeting a pedophile, for instance), and some days are delightfully normal, like yesterday which I spent with Tyler walking...
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Face to Face with a Pedophile
If you follow this blog regularly, you have probably noticed that rape is my hot button issue. A team of shrinks have still not been able to figure out why I’m affected by the mere mention of the word in such a pervasive way. I guess I think that sex is such a magnificent thing, that the idea of it being used as a weapon is haunting.
That being said, imagine how distraught I was to come...
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The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
My mother announced at Easter dinner to the rest of the family (I already knew of course), that she is looking to start a little bakery business.
An “erotic” bakery. This is my life.
The photo below is her creation that she baked and hand painted with flavored icing. I think it looks amazing! And maybe I could sell them out of Feminique Boutique? What fun!
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Nudity is Disorderly Conduct?
Singer Eryka Badu was cited for disorderly conduct for stripping naked on a public Dallas street while filming a music video.
The reason of course if my favorite uneducated arguement from the powers that be: “what about the children?!?”.
Apparently it’s safe for the children of Texas that folks can show their guns in public, but not their boobs.
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The Bunny Costume
You know the scene from Legally Blonde where Reese Witherspoon’s character shows up to a “costume” party wearing a sexy Playboy bunny outfit and finds she is the only one dressed up? Such was my life Friday night.
I was bummed that the rape prevention charity event was not going as well as I had hoped and that this day that I had spent so long planning was no better or more...
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Rape and Gender Egalitarianism
In honor of April being Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we at Feminique Boutique will be donating 10% of the sales from tomorrow, Friday April 2, to a rape charity.
While organizations such as the Crime Victims Center of Chester County are important because they offer free counseling, support, and legal advocacy after a rape has been committed, wouldn’t it be nice if we could put them out...
