If watching Robert De Niro ordering hammer-based retribution on a cheat's hand in "Casino" instinctively made you wince, you ...

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Like many Westerners, I always assumed that meditation was a "spiritual" phenomenon, which I took to mean that it somehow had to do with realms beyond the physical. For a long time I wasn’t aware that ...

Its been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more years of it. I’m not handling this well. Lisbeth continued, “I feel like I’m dying from touch starvation, y’all. I don’t get hugs.

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I used to enjoy when my partner went down on me. Now, I prefer when he avoids it. My partner asks me how I want to be touched, but, really, I have no idea! I prefer when we skip foreplay altogether.