Shannon in Seattle brings us a look at the new Earth Angel vibrator. It’s green, quiet, and easy to use -- what’s not to love?

Here’s what I’ve been reading this week – check it out!

The Wall Street Journal has a fantastic article on how young women can develop leadership and management skills. If you have a young woman in your life, this is one to share.

Claire and Rachel make another list! This time they’re #73 on the top 100 Top Hot Butches list. I was drooling over this list anyway (and looking for new ideas for haircuts) when there they were!

Audacia Ray reviews Masters of Sex – the book about some of the very first sex researchers, Masters and Johnson.

Cory Silverberg of About.com has an amazing article in Huffington Post on “where teens are headed” and how best to help them.

XKCD brings the love for vibrators and the Fleshlight in this hilarious comic strip. Maybe we should send him a Fleshlight as a thank you!

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From Sex on the Side, a new campaign in San Francisco to help encourage gay men to get tested for Syphillis called Healthy Penis.

Playboy (no really! I read the article..) explores the science behind the G-spot and mentions some research I hadn’t known about before. If you’re at all interested in how the G-spot works, this is a great

I wanted to share with you a letter a friend of mine wrote, a father, for his 18-year-old daughter as she headed off to college. It seemed like a great father’s day post.

My Sweet Daughter,

I have taught you so much over the years, and now I need to talk to you a bit about love and sex. I want to share with you the little bit I’ve learned in my life, and offer you a man’s perspective, to help set you on a path toward happy and satisfying relationships. As you move through them, you get to write your own detailed and profound beginnings, middles and perhaps ends on this subject.

First, let me also acknowledge that what a man, a partner, a father says about sex is limited to what they know, what they have experienced, what they can imagine.  And, this also assumes you are interested in men.  If it is women, or both for you, than much of this still applies, please change the pronouns.

• A man needs to be taught what feels good to a woman. You are the teacher.  Men see examples, many bad, in Internet porn or the like, but that may not include what you like, so you need to be the real thing, the real teacher, not an example or a stereotype.  You need to create, lead, teach the tender or wild or whatever sex you like at the moment with that partner.  Many men need to be told to slow down and explore what feels good to the woman they are with.

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