sexuality forums

Here is the french link to the doctissimo sexuality forum, name the subject and someone has posted something about it, even stuff you had never imagined - the Fantasmes category is worth a look. Most people post questions and concerns relating to fanstasies or habits they have, alone or with their partner. Blogs like this boom with posts, mainly because people have no other means of getting answers to their weird perverted questions.

http://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/liste_categorie.htm

Here is another interesting link related to the subject of our current issue - where comes the shame from sex.

http://sexuality.about.com/od/communication/a/barriersex_talk.htm

no big mystery

I think sexuality is slightly overrated. It's one of the last human issues that is still private and personal, and it should stay that way. Not everything is meant to be squeezed out of its shell. We just need to excercize it in a healthy way. It's when we get too preoccupied or negligent with sex that it becomes negative.

It's no big mystery, it's just another part of being human.

-anonymous

Issue four

I am still convinced that to this day, as a society, we do not focus enough energy in understanding sexuality & sex. And I'm not talking here about having sexual content out into the open, like using it to sell ripped up jeans or overpriced perfume. I'm talking about putting our fears and questions about sexuality out there where people can hear them. To me, sexuality is the root of so many personal issues, issues that influence our social behavior and relationships. Right from the start, as pre-teens, when our bodies are fucking with our brains, no one really gives us any direction, any pointers as to why we relate to our bodies in a whole different language. A language that relates the physical to the mental, which basically translates into sexuality.
I still don't understand why that part of our brain should still be kept under silence, eaten by shame. After all these years, why are we shutting ourselve from such potential clarity? It puzzles my mind.

So my question for Issue four goes like this:

When sex comes up in a conversation, or when you are asked to talk about sexual issues with your doctor let's say, are you inclined to be open and honest, or do you feel a pinch of shyness? Can you explain why you feel that way?
Does understanding your personal sexual patterns preoccupy your thoughts? Why? And finally, have you ever thought that your personal sexual patterns had an impact on the way you lived your life in general?



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