Can you force sexual attraction? Or rather, can you get past the lack of it? I remember reading Betty’s memoir, and when she got past the idea of needing to find someone sexually attractive to fuck...
Dopamine. Serotonin. Norepinephrine. Oxytocin. These are four chemicals that are being increasingly understood as having powerful effects on we human beings when it comes to the ways in which we...
There's nothing better sometimes than to curl up with a well-written book, especially on a cold, dreary, winter day. I have been reading E.M. Forster's (posthumous) book, Maurice. Forester is...
My childhood fantasies revolved around being fabulously rich & famous, because I didn’t know that one could be rich without fame.
The reason I wanted to be rich was so that I could buy a...
Greetings from Jesus Country (aka Kansas)!
Our new governor is busily trying to enact legislation that he has been promising to do for quite some time (since before he was governor, in fact), and...
Yikes have I really been gone for 8 months? Well, I've had a lot of personal drama this year and I'm back in college full-time so I haven't had much time for blogging. I've just been quietly doing my...
Hi Betty,
I’ve been struggling with my sexual orientation for a couple of years and am wondering, if you, knowledgeable and esteemed lady :-), might have a word or two of advice, as I don’t seem to...
Since it was Christmas recently, it seems as if a lot of talk about believing in God occurred in my life.
The BIG question was this: "Well, if you don't believe in God, or that the Bible is the...
When I was maybe 16, or 17 years of age, my father knew this single father by the name of Chet. He was a rough and tough weathered guy used to lots hard work. He had been injured years earlier and...
Hi Betty,
I’ve been struggling with my sexual orientation for a couple of years and am wondering, if you, knowledgeable and esteemed lady :-), might have a word or two of advice, as I don’t seem to...
My parents would have been incredibly disappointed in me had they known that their only child had ever visited an adult bookstore. That's putting it mildly. They took me to church every week. I...
I found this pic on a vintage tumblr blog and spent a few hours getting to know Josephine Baker. It was taken in 1928 at the Johan Strauss theater. When I look at it, I can't help but...
In all the talk about mixed-orientation marriages, I want to stop and remind readers that in such a relationship, there's always the other person to think about! My own wife, for example, has had to...
Puberty hit me hard the summer between 6th and 7th grade when I was 12. Suddenly my body was alive and pulsing with the need to touch and be touched.
I’d been reading my mom’s paperback romance...