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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Posted On: December 28, 2010
This article first appeared on The Online Citizen. During my training to be a sexologist, I was confused by the differences between PE, DE, and ED. They are, namely, premature ejaculation, delayed ejaculation and erectile dysfunction or disorder, respectively. Later, I realised it was just as confusing for the men who have sexual concerns. Hopefully, […]
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Posted On: December 27, 2010
The trailer of the new Singaporean film ‘When Hainan Meets Teochew’ was enough to persuade me that I had to watch it. The movie was premised as a romantic comedy between a ‘manly’ woman, and a ‘womanly’ man, as opposed to the usual Hollywood cliché where a handsome man meets a pretty lady and […]
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Posted On: December 24, 2010
This article first appeared in the December 2010 issue of Ezyhealth. Click on image to read.
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Posted On: December 22, 2010
This article was first published on The Online Citizen. Released in 1992, ‘The Best Things in Life Are Free’ is a song by Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross. The song went to number one on the R&B singles chart and debuted at number 24 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the week of May 30, […]
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