The Happy Trail

Penis… Penis...  PENIS!!! All you fellow fans of The Penis Game out there will pick up what I’m throwing down when I say that penises can be pretty funny. We draw them in foggy windows, find them scratched into desks and even make snowballs to complement the super phallic obelisk in the quad. It’s funny (as in peculiar) that we have this response to dicks yet you rarely see blooming vulvas scrawled on a friend’s notebook. Why don’t we hear people screaming “vagina” to each other? Our free association to...

Recently, a friend approached me for tips about blowjobs.  She is a virgin, and was nervous about her boyfriend’s reaction towards the bj. What got me thinking was that she was spending so much time thinking about giving oral sex, but was this feeling reciprocated by her partner?  Is this situation normal for both sexual partners, or is this just the problem for one? Oral Sex has a distinct place in many people’s minds.  Many see it as foreplay, and only in the quintessential blowjob performed on a man. This...

The other day, I was at a party talking to a very respectable fellow: cute, well-versed and utterly filthy when drunk. Every conversation would quickly devolve into a deluge of extended metaphors about his monstrous appendage (or so he said). After a while, this well-endowed raconteur dissolved entirely into giggles. Tears in his eyes, he apologized to me, the only woman in his audience: “Sorry, I think about sex all the time!” I snorted, “It’s okay, I do too!” then plied my face into fake seriousness. No laughs. The drunken...

Winter break is coming up—that magical time when you recuperate from the stresses of the semester and don’t bother with wearing pants. Perhaps  you also spend some time reflecting on what pulled you into the hellhole of academia in the first place. We can all agree that breaks are great. They distance you from your reality for a short while, allowing you to take a breath and think about who you really want to be rather than who you’ve become in the tempestuous soup of sex, studies and spirits that...

Welcome, babes of toyland! This week we’ve worked together to bring you Sex Toyz 101: Happy Trail style. Dildos, vibrators, cock rings and, of course, the ubiquitous and ever-useful lube. Learn some lessons and remember the rules—always play naughty, and don’t always share. This ain’t your happy meal toy, sexy thing. These toys are going places (and in places, and up places, and over places…). (And remember, if you want a sex toy but don’t want to go to a sex shop, try Babeland.com. They ship in nondescript boxes so...

Someone of the sex you fancy walks into the room and suddenly you’re acutely aware of their very presence. Your senses sharpen, like a cheetah lusting after a distant zebra’s plump rump. Why do you have the sudden urge to whisper in that person’s ear, “Take me?” This immediate, inexplicable attraction to someone, even while knowing them little or not at all, is chemistry—like a moth to a flame. Think for a second, if you will, of a person that you’ve seen that gives you butterflies, or maybe someone that...

Ah, orgasm. Even though it’s (usually) pretty obvious when you’re having one, the form, function and mechanics of the whole O-rdeal are pretty complex. This complexity is hard to study empirically so there are a lot of gaps in our knowledge of orgasm. The biggest factor, too, is the wide variation in any one person’s experience of orgasm, let alone the variation from person to person. It pains me to generalize such a subject, but there are several things that are worth thinking about when it comes to achieving orgasm....

When was the last time you were out with a friend and asked, “So, been masturbating lately?” or “What position did you and what’s-his-name try out last night?” Most of the time, we don’t exactly consider these topics great conversation starters. Now I’m not asking you to go all Tommy Wiseau from The Room and ask out of the blue, “Anyway, how is your sex life?” but maybe good old Tommy has a point. Maybe we should be caring about each others’ sex lives more. Sexuality is an inherent part...