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Mominatrix
Mominatrix Salutes the Good Ol' USA
By Kristen Chase
The 4th of July rings of beaches, barbecues, and beer, all in the name of good old American patriotism, of course. But instead of watching daddy lose a finger with a bunch of illegally purchased fireworks, why not set some of your own off in the bedroom...read more |
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Mominatrix
Mominatrix Salutes the Good Ol' USA
By Kristen Chase
The 4th of July rings of beaches, barbecues, and beer, all in the name of good old American patriotism, of course. But instead of watching daddy lose a finger with a bunch of illegally purchased fireworks, why not set some of your own off in the bedroom...read more |
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Not Your Average Fairy Tale
Saving Face: What to do when your girlfriend could care less about California
By Melissa Doak
I clicked on the BBC news. Hordes of couples were celebrating on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. I whooped.
“Look, Saads!” I pointed to the T.V. “California ruled lesbian and gay people can get married. Everyone’s lining...read more |
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Mominatrix
Dealing with a globetrotting spouse.
By Kristen Chase
With my own spouse gone most of the week and millions of other women playing single parent in one capacity or another thanks to military deployments and numerous companies requiring business travel, I’m betting that sex toy sales must be sky rocketing....read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
Dealing with a globetrotting spouse.
By Kristen Chase
With my own spouse gone most of the week and millions of other women playing single parent in one capacity or another thanks to military deployments and numerous companies requiring business travel, I’m betting that sex toy sales must be sky rocketing....read more |
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Mominatrix
Mommy Mammaries
By Kristen Chase
After two pregnancies and a combined three years of breastfeeding, my boobs have definitely seen better days. Granted I’m not yet picking them up off the ground and tucking them into my elastic waist band pants, but a bra is definitely required...read more |
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Not Your Average Fairy Tale
A Boy-Girl Thing?
By Melissa Doak
The gang of kids came wandering up as I was attempting to cut the weeds out of the ditch so my neighbor’s yard wouldn’t flood the next time it so much as sprinkled. I tried to look like I could actually hold the weed-whacker up for more than...read more |
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Mominatrix
Kickin' It Old School.
By Kristen Chase
For many expectant mothers, the 2nd trimester does indeed bring with it a joyous and blissful renewal of body and spirit. Clearly it’s still not all puppy dogs and rose petals. But if you’ve been puking your guts out, or like me, suffering...read more |
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Mominatrix
Sex for One, Again
By Kristen Chase
I can’t count how many times I’ve picked up a self-help-your-sex-life book and read that getting away without your kids more often than not is the key to a fulfilled love life. Really? You mean one whole night where my where my spouse and...read more |
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Mominatrix
Pleasure is just around the corner.
By Kristen Chase
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not just porn stars, ass men, and that ambiguously gay college boyfriend of yours who just so happened to own every single Cher album that like the butt play.
Regular old moms like the butt action too.
Granted,...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
Touch Me, Baby
By Kristen Chase
When you’ve been stuck for however many hours a day being bugged, badgered, and bothered by little hands grabbing at you from every direction, chances are the last thing that you want is to be groped by your well-meaning spouse. I’m not quite...read more |
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Not Your Average Fairy Tale
The Accidental Adoption
By Melissa Doak
Okay, you’re probably thinking there’s no such thing as an accidental adoption.
After all, in order to adopt you must do a variety of things that you can hardly do without meaning to. Things like showing caseworkers your home. Leaving...read more |
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Mominatrix
Sweet, Sweet Fantasy, Baby
By Kristen Chase
If you ask any mother about her sexual fantasies, chances are they’d probably have more to do with sleep than any specific sexual act.
Is my husband masturbating in the shower while I sleep soundly for the entire night still considered a sexual...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
Sweet, Sweet Fantasy, Baby
By Kristen Chase
If you ask any mother about her sexual fantasies, chances are they’d probably have more to do with sleep than any specific sexual act.
Is my husband masturbating in the shower while I sleep soundly for the entire night still considered a sexual...read more |
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Mominatrix
It's the Final Countdown.
By Kristen Chase
I’m not sure I remember exactly when my husband and I had the dreaded sexual history conversation. It’s not like one of us kept count of our past conquests in some spiral bound Garfield notebook or anything.
Who does that?
And while...read more |
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Not Your Average Fairy Tale
Sex Education. Lesbian Style.
By Melissa Doak
I was only five years old when my brother was born. It was my mother’s growing belly that prompted my questions about where babies come from. My mother gave me both more information than I needed, as a kindergartner, and less. Really, I think some...read more |
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Mominatrix
Valentine's Day, Mominatrix Style
By Kristen Chase
I have to admit that I dread Valentine’s Day every single year. Maybe I sound terribly unromantic to complain about a meaningful box of chocolates and a dozen insanely overpriced roses that don’t make it past the end of the week, by which...read more |
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Mominatrix
Blow Off Your Duty
By Kristen Chase
I recently likened giving fellatio to making brown-bag lunches for your spouse. It starts out as this beautiful gesture that you offer to him, and then becomes an obligation. And when it’s expected, it’s not so beautiful anymore but instead...read more |
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Mominatrix
Jingle Balls
By Kristen Chase
The balls, testicles, gonads, or whatever you’ve christened them are probably one of the more mysterious aspects of sexual play. Most of us have spent our time trying to figure out the long and short of the penis thus leaving the testicles out of...read more |
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Mominatrix
Sex for One.
By Kristen Chase
As a person who’s been in and out of relationships like a revolving door, I admit to not being much of a masturbator. Call me lazy or just plain crazy, but I have to say that sometimes it’s way easier to just have someone else do it for you...read more |
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Mominatrix
Moms and Dads can play dress up, too.
By Kristen Chase
Unless you met your spouse at a Trekkie convention, chances are that trying to get you to dress up as something other than a tired overworked mother might be pretty tough. That doesn’t mean I’m not in support of role-playing and fantasy in...read more |
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Not Your Average Fairy Tale
The Ghosts of Halloweens Past
By Melissa Doak
Take One: Saadia in kindergarten. Only a few short and stormy months since she came to me. I was hanging on by a thread. My once-promising relationship with my fairly new girlfriend was on rocks… apparently it really killed the romance for her...read more |
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Mominatrix
Porno for Parents.
By Kristen Chase
Aside from the recommended date nights that married parents are sick of hearing about, sex therapists seem to be jumping on the porn wagon.
When in doubt, go watch porn.
I don’t really have a problem with porn for the most part, and it can certainly...read more |
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Not Your Average Fairy Tale
A Coming Out Story
By Melissa Doak
“You know what Miss Feldman told us today,” said a conspiratorial voice from the back seat. “She’s gay... EWWWW!!!”
At the outset I have to say I have changed the names here to protect the guilty. The girl who made this...read more |
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Mominatrix
Little Squirts -- I'm not talking about your kids.
By Kristen Chase
I’m all for equal rights, particularly when it comes to the bedroom, but I must say I’m perfectly fine with my fairly uneventful orgasm. And by uneventful I’m not referring to boring or even quiet. I’m talking about clean.
For...read more |
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Mominatrix
The Cone: Not Just for Soft Serve Anymore
By Kristen Chase
I’d like to think that parents don’t need kid-friendly sex toys. Just because I’m a mom doesn’t mean I need a dildo that moonlights as a teether. And while the idea of a vibrator that has a lullaby setting doesn’t sound like...read more |
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Mominatrix
The Cone: Not Just for Soft Serve Anymore
By Kristen Chase
I’d like to think that parents don’t need kid-friendly sex toys. Just because I’m a mom doesn’t mean I need a dildo that moonlights as a teether. And while the idea of a vibrator that has a lullaby setting doesn’t sound like...read more |
| Category: Lifestyle |
Mama and More Mama
The only thing that matters is love and respect.
By Gabriel Constans
On a network show about gay parenting and during her fight in Florida over gay adoption, former talk show host, comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell talked about her and her partner raising their adopted children. When she was asked how the youngest...read more |
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Mominatrix
Love in an Elevator? Try Skipping the Bed for Once
By Kristen Chase
As a college student, the bed was the last place I thought about using for sexual purposes. It cradled my body after a few drunken escapades, but as far as the horizontal mambo, the bed equated old married people with kids. So I saw my fair share of interesting...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
The Warp Speed Of Sexuality
Sometimes living in the age of sexuality is tiring.
By Lauri Kubuitsile
Sometimes living in the age of sexuality is tiring. Don’t get me wrong; I like sex despite the rumors that my husband may be spreading. There’s just so much of it around. We are swimming in it. And frankly, some of us are drowning. The ubiquitousness...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
The Warp Speed Of Sexuality
Sometimes living in the age of sexuality is tiring.
By Lauri Kubuitsile
Sometimes living in the age of sexuality is tiring. Don’t get me wrong; I like sex despite the rumors that my husband may be spreading. There’s just so much of it around. We are swimming in it. And frankly, some of us are drowning. The ubiquitousness...read more |
| Category: Parenting |
The Warp Speed Of Sexuality
Sometimes living in the age of sexuality is tiring.
By Lauri Kubuitsile
Sometimes living in the age of sexuality is tiring. Don’t get me wrong; I like sex despite the rumors that my husband may be spreading. There’s just so much of it around. We are swimming in it. And frankly, some of us are drowning. The ubiquitousness...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
What lies beneath.
By Kristen Chase
I’ve often wondered what goes on behind the bedroom doors in suburban America. Is the frustrated mom of two who drags her son out of the mall by his backpack a swinger by night? Does the clean cut mother of four who plants her flowers in obsessive...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
What lies beneath.
By Kristen Chase
I’ve often wondered what goes on behind the bedroom doors in suburban America. Is the frustrated mom of two who drags her son out of the mall by his backpack a swinger by night? Does the clean cut mother of four who plants her flowers in obsessive...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mother Magnetism
Makeup and Sex -- Whatever Makes You Blush
By Kelly Reising
I have to say, my column this week is inspired by my friend Kristen of Mominatrix fame. This idea came to me while I was doing her radio show in Chicago at Blogher 07. We attempted to relate sex to beauty products, and all we came up with was a skincare...read more |
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Mominatrix
What happened to my husband's sex drive?
By Kristen Chase
Thanks to the hordes of whiny housewives who can’t stop bitching about how they have to fend off their husbands’ nightly sexual advances, the few women with spouses who’d rather sleep it off than beat it off are left wondering what the...read more |
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Mominatrix
What happened to my husband's sex drive?
By Kristen Chase
Thanks to the hordes of whiny housewives who can’t stop bitching about how they have to fend off their husbands’ nightly sexual advances, the few women with spouses who’d rather sleep it off than beat it off are left wondering what the...read more |
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Mominatrix
This dose of advice is to be taken orally.
By Kristen Chase
Ah, the blow job – it’s a housewife’s bargaining chip, a gay man’s mainstay, or a college student’s virginity saver. Call it what you want, but the blow job has served its purpose in society since before a penis was called...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
This dose of advice is to be taken orally.
By Kristen Chase
Ah, the blow job – it’s a housewife’s bargaining chip, a gay man’s mainstay, or a college student’s virginity saver. Call it what you want, but the blow job has served its purpose in society since before a penis was called...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
Sex after childbirth.
By Kristen Chase
As if squeezing out a kid from our nether regions isn’t penance enough, we must suffer through our first few months as a mother with leaky boobs, a sore butthole, and the worst symptom of all, low sex drive. Our little eight pound load is finally...read more |
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Mominatrix
Good girls have pubes.
By Kristen Chase
I remember the days when I could spend as long as I needed to create the perfect pubic coif. Nothing fancy, mind you, just fairly tamed and perfectly contained within the confines of the underpants.
But now I have kids and I barely have time to wash...read more |
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Mominatrix
Good girls have pubes.
By Kristen Chase
I remember the days when I could spend as long as I needed to create the perfect pubic coif. Nothing fancy, mind you, just fairly tamed and perfectly contained within the confines of the underpants.
But now I have kids and I barely have time to wash...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
Sex and the single mom.
By Kristen Chase
Even though we’ve got at least one person (baby, teenager, hell, even our husbands) attached to our hip, most moms would say that motherhood can be a very lonely existence. But when it comes down to it, most of us have a shoulder to cry on and someone...read more |
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Mominatrix
Talk dirty to me.
By Kristen Chase
If the post-partum sex is still actually occurring in your household and is not a figment of your imagination or hasn't manifested into the form of an online porn addiction, then either you must have an incredibly sound sleeping child or you’re...read more |
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Mominatrix
The Taboo of Sex
By Kristen Chase
If you’ve got at least one little mini-me running around after you, it’s fairly obvious that you’re getting some. I liken it to wearing your heart on your sleeve; a pregnant belly practically screams sex. Everybody knows you’re...read more |
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Mominatrix
Playing for the other team.
By Kristen Chase
I’m not quite sure why some men are surprised when after years of quick bangs, skid marks, and foreplay that involves bra snapping and ass scratching, women decide that what they really need is the comfort of another woman’s bosom.
Going...read more |
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Mominatrix
Mominatrix comes in a plain brown wrapper.
By Kristen Chase
I've read the complaints about the internet when it comes to opening up the sex world like a Pandora's box and truly, there's something to be said about the local porn addict having 24-hour access to way more than your typical old hard core group band...read more |
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Mominatrix
Vortex Vibrations sucks -- in a good way.
By Kristen Chase
While I’d like to think there’s always room for sex toy talk over cheez-its and wine at your weekly playdate, chances are you never get past the boring weekly round up of bad poop explosions and breastfeeding blunders.
Shopping for sexual...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
Vortex Vibrations sucks -- in a good way.
By Kristen Chase
While I’d like to think there’s always room for sex toy talk over cheez-its and wine at your weekly playdate, chances are you never get past the boring weekly round up of bad poop explosions and breastfeeding blunders.
Shopping for sexual...read more |
| Category: Columnists |
Mominatrix
A Woody With a Hoody Feels Very Goody
By Kristen Chase
Unless you studied a year abroad in Greece or are married to an old country Italian stallion, chances are you haven’t had the pleasure of a woody with a hoody. Other than a random meet and greet or a quick flip through a Robert Mapplethorpe book,...read more |
