Liz on MyPleasure: New Approach to Healthy Body Image

New Years is right around the corner and many people are going to make the same resolution they make every year, despite knowing that if it had worked before they wouldn't be making it again. A new survey by a British weight loss product company shows some interesting statistics about women's attitudes towards their bodies (surprise! it's not good) but other research shows there might be gentler, healthier ways of keeping that resolution for a health body and attitude. Happy New Year!!

Liz on Alternet: Is Marriage Becoming Obsolete?

        For once, I didn't bring it up. It was a Time magazine/Pew Research study revealing that 39% of people surveyed believed that marriage is becoming obsolete.

        If you've been reading my work for awhile know my opinion of marriage - at least traditional marriage - which is that any time you have to be put under contract to be kept around something is amiss. Now, intriguingly, despite what seems like every movie, TV show and magazines still using marriage (or at least a wedding) to prove that the main character has ended happily - a lot more people than I'd have thought are answering the question Is Marriage Becoming Obsolete? with a big yes. Enjoy!

Liz is #1 headline on World Sex News!

No doubt by the time most of you read this the headlines will have changed but I'm thrilled to be the #1 headline on World Sex News today for my story for my video review on MyPleasure.com of the Astrea 1 vibrator (read while reading Jane Austen). I love that something that was so much fun to do turned out to be so likeable as well. It's definitely a fun product and one I recommend. And getting on this list is an early Merry Xmas to me!

Liz on MyPleasure: A Reading of Jane Austen (while wearing vibrating panties)

In MyPleasure Video: Putting the Astrea 1 Vibrating Panty to the Jane Austen test, it was my desire to see if remote control vibrating panties worked by reading Jane Austen  while wearing them...and seeing if I could continue to read while wearing them. Thanks to my friend Liz (pictured with me below; click the link above for video) I got to live the dream. There's nothing like having a friend of 32 years that you'd literally trust with anything.

There's more about the actual product in the text - the video was just a fun experiment and I LOVE how it turned out. Hope you do, too! Enjoy!

Liz quote on HerCampus.com, story in Huff Post

I recently got interviewed by Nicole Karlis of Hercampus.com for her story on What Women Can Learn from Sister Wives, about how women in single-partner relationships can learn from people in multi-partner relationships about issues like jealousy and keeping things interesting. It was fun to talk to Nicole and I'm happy to say her piece got picked up by the Huff Post! Congrats Nicole!

Liz on Alternet: Anti-Fur but Pro-Meat? A Carnist's Dilemma

One thing I know for sure about love is that if you don't step away from what you love once in awhile that you can grow weary of it and there are few worse feelings than looking at something that used to turn you on and thinking "Feh..."

I don't want to feel that way about my writing niche of sex and love, so, very luckily, I get to do projects that are out of my genre sometimes, like my interview with Dr. Melanie Joy on Alternet. I was having a moral dilemma over my disgust with fur farms and having trying to reconcile that with the fact that I'm a very avid omnivore - how can I really be that anti-fur and have no problem eating meat? And I'm an enthusiastic carnist. There are days when I feel like I could easily wander into one of the many pastures in Central Florida with a fork and a salt-shaker and having at one of the undoubtedly yummy cows out there.

I was mulling over this when I happened on Melanie's book "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows," a clever title for a book that doesn't bonk you over the head with ideology but simply presents the facts about "carnism," the culture of meat-eating. Her Carnism Awareness and Action Network is now up and both the book and the site are definitely worth a look.

There's nothing I love more than a story that opens up a dozen cans of worms and that's what this story did for me. On one hand it was very different from writing about sex an love - on the other hand it's still about flesh...so maybe I'm just substituting one appetite for another. In any case, it was intriguing, eye-opening and fun to work on. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Liz on MyPleasure: The Ultimate Holiday De-Stressor

Odd how the holidays are something we love and look forward to and yet cause us enough stress in a matter of weeks to out-freak the whole rest of the year combined. Of course there are a million ways to de-stress but those wonderful chemicals you product in your own body are the best drug fixes you can get. Check out my blog entry for MyPleasure.com on a sex toy for every holiday stress situation. You and everyone around you will be glad you did.

Liz on MyPleasure: Radiation Blocking Undies Give Travelers More Than Privacy

There have been no good answers to the insane privacy violations taking place courtesy of the TSA but Jeff Buske of Rocky Flats gear has at least come up with those who would still like the freedom to be a little modest. Check out his radiation-blocking, privacy-protecting underwear in my post on MyPleasure.com.