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I’m letting my loyal blog readers know that new blog articles for the Passion 101 Community will be posted at the Passion Doctor Blogsite, which you can access when you click the link below: www.thepassiondoctor.com/blog I will continue to share my thoughts about passion, intimacy, romance and sexuality at www.thepassiondoctor.com, nothing is changing besides the change [...]

December 11 Is The Most Fertile Day Of The Year! A recent  study looking at birth rates indicates that December 11 is the most fertile day of the year!  This is from a UK study which indicates that September 16 is the most popular birthday.  Backing this out by 40 weeks (the average gestation period) [...]

Why Wait For The New Year To Make Changes? Most of us wait until the “New Year” to reassess our lives and state new plans, intentions and “resolutions” for our lives. Yes, it’s a time when there is general consensus that this is a good thing to do, yet why wait? If you want to [...]

Can The “New Macho” Help YOUR Relationship? I’m a big fan of the Mankind Project (MKP) and have shared about it in previous posts (Mankind Project, Men’s Work).  MKP has shared a great working definition of the “New Macho” as a model for the “New Masculinity”. It is a wonderful launching point for discussions about what [...]

Can We Balance The Fighter and The Lover in Relationship? While assisting a recent Tantra workshop, I experienced the strong difference in my body between when I embody the Fighter or Warrior and when I embody the Lover archetype.  It was such a pronounced and uncomfortable  difference that I felt the need to write more [...]

After The Break Up, Do YOU Get Custody Of The Sexts? I originally posted this article on the Passion 101 Blogsite.  Upon careful consideration, I moved it to the Men After Fifty Blogsite and you can access it at: When You Breakup, Who Gets The Naked Pictures? My thinking is that on Men After Fifty, [...]

50 Shades: Do Women REALLY Want To Be Dominated? In light of all of the crazy success and publicity of Fifty Shades of Grey,  it would TRULY appear that something in the collective unconscious is being tapped into.  Everyone is TALKING about it, yet is it what women really want, to be submissive to a man, [...]

National Humor Month: Laugh Your Relationship Healthy! As we wind down April as National Humor Month, I want to remind you that by adding laughter into your relationship, you can definitely improve it.  You absolutely can laugh your relationship healthy! One of my recommendations to every couple I have worked with over the last twenty [...]

Passion Tip: Hug Until Relaxed You probably won’t be surprised to learn that many of the couples I have worked with over the past twenty years have had sexual difficulties in their relationship.  When doing sex therapy, one simple exercise I have the couple do on our first session is both diagnostic to me as [...]

Cheating Husbands Prefer Toyotas, Really? A recent survey of adulterers found that men preferred Toyotas and women preferred Hondas.  As a couples counselor, I’m not quite sure how this data is relevant, yet it is a piece of some puzzle.  Does it mean that having an affair isn’t a romantic, high class “affair” for most [...]