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Welcome to the age of the “e-motional” affair, where infidelity is just a click away and cheating has become easier than setting up a Wii. From iPhones and BlackBerrys to Facebook, Twitter and Craigslist, technology isn’t just enabling infidelity, it’s accelerating it at record pace: Flirtatious friendships, emotional affairs, the return of the ex, sexting, online porn and cybersex — with each new advance in technology comes a new way to cheat, and more and more of us are increasingly leading “digital double lives.”
If parenthood has taught me one thing it’s that, irrespective of my public persona as a relationship expert, I am far from being an expert in my own relationship. Like many a new father, life after baby No. 1 left me confused and conflicted, not to mention sleepless, sexless and hard up. And just when I thought life couldn’t get any more hard up, along came baby No. 2 to take my randiness to new dimensions of dementia.
I have two sons, ages 6 and 3, so I guess have a more time before I have to start worrying about them transforming into hormone-raging cads. But if today’s world of sexting, rainbow parties, Girls Gone Wild and Tila Tequila is any indication of what’s to come, I’m going to have my hands full.
Like cell phones and hotel rooms, the Internet is a facilitator of infidelity — especially the emotional kind. Here, SexRx columnist Ian Kerner advises worried lovers to keep an eye on what their partners are doing and saying in e-mails and on social networking sites.
Some people take an alarmist point of view when it comes to porn, but oftentimes there's nothing to worry about, says sex therapist Ian Kerner. It's just your man's 30-second version of a spa day — with a happy ending.
Jack, a new patient who has been married for eight years with two young sons, rails against Facebook: “Let’s see, yesterday my wife: Felt bloated, realized she has nothing to wear, posted yet another adorable photo album of our boys dressed as Jedi warriors, was missing Michael Jackson and, oh yeah … DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH ME!”
If you ever happen to find yourself crossing the Capilano River in North Vancouver, Canada, you’ll have two bridges to choose from:
In “Sex and the City,” Carrie Bradshaw asks one of the great questions of our time:
Okay, so we’re only a week or so into the New Year, but are you already exhausted by the prospect of stepping back onto the dating treadmill? Regardless of all the hype about 2009 being a year of “change,” are you getting the sinking feeling that it’s going to be more of the same when it comes to your love life?
Every year, right around this time, I start to turn into the grinch who stole Christmas.
I hear it all the time: “I’m just dating him in the meantime.”
Unlike the executives at Enron, a woman’s orgasm never lies. It can tell a woman the truth about a sexual encounter, often whether she wants to know it or not. That’s because the female orgasm releases a burst of oxytocin, also known as the “cuddle hormone,” which facilitates a sense of attachment. But if there’s nothing to attach to, if there’s no deeper emotional content or meaningfulness, the orgasm becomes a regretful reminder of the hollowness of the sex that preceded it.
The midnight moon of All Hallows Eve is upon us, which means an eye-popping pageant of wanton witches, naughty nurses, seductive superheroes and racy wraiths. (And this year, Halloween also happens to provide us with the perfect date night by falling on a Friday.)
As our economy goes from boom to bust so too do many relationships.
In the last year I’ve not only seen a significant increase in the number of men who are grappling with some form of DE (delayed ejaculation) — guys who can only reach orgasm via masturbation, guys who can't reach it at all — I've also been hearing increasingly from the partners of men with DE: women who are confused, at a loss, and fearful that their own desirability, or possible lack of sexual skill, may be part of the problem.
Single and spinning your wheels? Maybe it’s time to step off the treadmill and go on dating detox.
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