Temples and Brothels: Same Sex Marriage, Monogamy and More.... with Eric Schneider

Last week I interviewed good friend and NYC's premier sex therapist to gay men, Eric Schneider. Here's some stuff we talked about: 

Same Sex Marriage. Is same sex marriage normalizing an otherwise sexually explorative and expressive gay community?

-Alienation. How when we as a society create an ideal, such as monogamous marriage in this case, we effectively alienate everything else which does not fall into those narrow confines. This creates a lot of difficulty as people become more focused on maintaining an ideal, than actually keeping it real.

-Confusing Monogamy As Safety. It is second nature or intuitive in our culture to use monogamy as a source of safety. Eric reminds us that just because a couple deems themselves monogamous, does not actually make a safe environment. Rather honesty, openness, and trust create safety. And our false reliance on monogamy as an ideal actually perpetuates dishonesty and therefor perhaps creates a lack of safety.

We have a great discussion on monogamy and heterosexuality as conditioning, when in actuality there are many choices and options.

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Our Obsession With Bigger and Better.

In this episode we break down why sometimes dating can be so difficult in this day and age.

Telemedicine .... The Future is Here....

Check out my article on telemedecine, I wrote for my other blog.

Temples and Brothels Update

Temples and Brothels crew, were in NYC last week. This past weekend, we had the privilege to shoot Mina Caputo, TransGender front woman for the band Life of Agony. Such an inspirational women, and artist. Catch this interview and many more in the upcoming documentary film, and see the true sexuality of America.  Temples and Brothels Facebook Page 
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BDSM Couple Discusses Their Trilogy...

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J.R. Luxor, best selling author in Amazon's sexuality category, is the nom de plume of the binary star that is a husband and wife writing team living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently a life coach and he is an author formerly involved in psychology and counseling teenage girls.


They share the character development, choosing what's in the heads of the male and female characters. They say their technique of using separate male and female voices for the characters, especially in their unspoken thoughts, produces a multi-dimensionality to the interactions and connections of the men and women in their writings. 

Submissives Caught on Camera, by J.R. Luxor, follows the lives of four couples in the San Francisco Bay Area who practice BDSM in their sex lives, sometimes, to varying degrees, with each other. This is the third of a series, beginning with BDSM Romance, How One Man Recruited and Trained a Sub, and then Wearing His Collar, the View from Below. In Camera, the four couples decide to make a video of one of their events, their sex parties. Not every woman of the four has sex with men other than her partner. The couples have different arrangements for their sexual interactions with others.