A very common tenet of goal sex is that both people have to orgasm before it is "officially" over; having an orgasm becomes the marker of "successful" sex.

If one person doesn't cum, there can be a sense something was not "right" and the experience was "a failure" or "incomplete."

This can lead to frustrating and exhausting attempts to help one partner orgasm, even when both would rather just stop.

Pleasure sex doesn't view orgasms as absolutely necessary. Rather than placing so much meaning on cumming, the focus can be on other aspects of the experience.   more »

On economic and social issues, Obama has positioned himself slightly to the right of Clinton, not to her left. Clinton took advantage of this in Nevada, focusing largely on the economy.

Her vote was at least in part a reflection - distorted as it is by the reactionary framework of bourgeois politics - of the growth of popular anxiety over jobs, declining real wages, and widespread bankruptcies and home foreclosures, the last of which is particularly acute in the Las Vegas area.

Obama also damaged his own prospects with an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal, in which he described former President Ronald Reagan as a figure who transformed American politics and turned the Republican Party into “the party of ideas” for more than a decade.

While the supposedly vast popularity of Reagan is an article of faith in the political establishment and the corporate-controlled media, the truth is that the Reagan administration was hated by broad sections of the working class, and it still is by those who lived through it.   more »

Clinton lacks Barack Obama's soaring oratory skills or John Edwards' rallying cry against corporate greed.

Her command of economic issues may not inspire, but her ability to connect with voters' concerns is a big asset.

For all the debate about Clinton fatigue vs. Clinton nostalgia, there's no doubt many voters have fond memories of the booming economy of the 1990s.

Maybe Bill Clinton's unofficial motto from 1992, "It's the economy, stupid," is recyclable.   more »

Sex & the Female Libido [Men Who Feel Inadequate]

Sex Trends: "Pegging" [Woman-to-Man Penetration]

Barack Obama's Cockiness

God, Sex & Repression

Male & Female Circumcision: Genital Mutilation?

A President's Bit of Stuff

Designer Vagina   more »

Obama talks about "the audacity of hope",

as if daring to hope for something means it will happen

This is the Tinkerbell, "clap hands if you believe in fairies",

school of political discourse. It's the desperation of false optimism.

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