Today’s Parent: Account of a Tuition Survivor

Posted On: January 27, 2011

This piece first appeared on The Online Citizen. I had tuition from when I was in Primary One until Secondary Four. My younger sister started from when she was Kindergarten Two. She started early because she wouldn’t leave me alone during my tuition lessons – insisting on playing with me, talking with me, peeping on […]

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Poem: The Will to Win

Posted On: January 23, 2011

For authentic expression, get your free daily lessons from Febulove, a project of Eros Coaching. To prepare yourself for sex, ladies, attend ‘Lady in Red’ and ‘Being Real’ workshops! Read more here! Then you won’t want to miss the Sugar and Spice series of workshops either! The Will to Win by Berton Braley If you […]

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Book Review: Sitting Moon – A Guide to Natural Rejuvenation After Pregnancy

Posted On: January 23, 2011

I was drawn to the book Sitting Moon: A Guide to Natural Rejuvenation After Pregnancy at the library. It has in part to do with the professional-looking cover with a white background, as well as the sub-title: ‘Natural Rejuvenation’.  Natural is always good, I thought. Another factor probably has to do the cover image of […]

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Gurls of Singapore

Gurls of Singapore

Posted On: January 20, 2011

This article first appeared on The Online Citizen. There is a new beauty pageant in Singapore. It’s named TruMe, an online transgender beauty pageant organised by Action for Aids; it will be officially launched next month. The moderator of Sggurls, a transgender activist who identifies herself as Nicole Singslave, told me that she coined the […]

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Sexual Stereotypes

Sexual Stereotypes

Posted On: January 20, 2011

This article first appeared on The Online Citizen. Gentlemen prefer blondes? All blondes are dumb? All redheads are passionate? A man is always sex-, porn- and/ or looks-obsessed? Therefore, he is expected to sow his wild oats? The gay person is promiscuous? A woman is seductive when she is slim, and that’s why every woman […]

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The Beauty of Different

The Beauty of Different

Posted On: January 8, 2011

What if you had a superpower? Because you just might. In a society where we are constantly bombarded with messages on how to think, how to feel, and how to look, it can be very easy to fall into the mindset that we are not enough, that we somehow fail as individuals. The truth is […]

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Client Confidentiality

Client Confidentiality

Posted On: January 7, 2011

This article first appeared on The Online Citizen. As the Lion City’s only clinical sexologist with a doctorate in human sexuality, I have often been asked by journalists, friends, and complete strangers to share my thoughts about what I felt was my most bizarre/ interesting/ fulfilling case. I could become the next media darling or […]

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Eat Your Heart Out

Eat Your Heart Out

Posted On: January 6, 2011

This article first appeared on Good Vibrations Magazine. According to a new research study in the UK, more than 60 percent of British women in relationships do not feel comfortable eating in front of their partner, and almost half get shy when undressing. Also, four in ten women feel as though they are ‘always dieting’ […]

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Free Sex Advice Clinic in China Closes

Free Sex Advice Clinic in China Closes

Posted On: January 3, 2011

This article first appeared on Good Vibrations Magazine. A free clinic offering sex education and advice for youths in Shanghai, China, which operated in the city for five years, has closed because it was not attracting enough visitors. Operated under the Shanghai International Peace Maternal and Child Health Hospital, the clinic was set up to […]

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Fire in the Valley – Female Genital Massage

Fire in the Valley – Female Genital Massage

Posted On: January 2, 2011

“With this massage, you can satisfy a woman to her core … every time!” – Annie Sprinkle Ph.D. In this training, you will learn thirty pleasurable massage strokes and erotic communication skills that you can use on your lover and/or on yourself. Learn from three women as they receive erotic touch. This class includes full […]

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Elle Magazine Does It Again, Whitening, That Is

Elle Magazine Does It Again, Whitening, That Is

Posted On: January 2, 2011

This article first appeared on Good Vibrations Magazine. For the second time this year, fashion magazine Elle finds itself caught in a racial controversy after reportedly whitening the skin of Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the photograph that appears on its cover. Readers reacted with anger after it was suggested that the fashion magazine […]

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Fire on the Mountain – Male Genital Massage

Fire on the Mountain – Male Genital Massage

Posted On: January 1, 2011

Good Vibrations says: “The ultimate hand job lesson, providing live-action instruction on how to pleasure a man’s penis.” Learn the joys of giving and receiving a Taoist Erotic Massage–a type of massage that often leads to a spiritual and transformative full-bodied orgasm. The difference between a hand job and this Erotic Massage is the difference […]

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