By Jennifer Adler, M.S., C.N.

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Marilyn discusses "Magical Thinking" and how it can steer your life in the wrong direction.

10:30 minutes (2.41 MB)
Dr. Marilyn Volker delivers some eye-opening tips on how to bump up your sex life.

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If you're suffering from a sex-starved marriage, don't be so quick to blame it on your kids. In this podcast, Mel Robbins discusses how your sex life is your responsibility. You've got to make a hot, sexy marriage a priority, no matter how many kids you've got living under your roof!

5:22 minutes (1.23 MB)
Marilyn talks about her 4 T's: Talk, Touch, Time and Trust. These great tips will help you satisfy your partner both in and out of the bedroom.

44:43 minutes (10.24 MB)
The happier you are, the more inspired you will be to treat others kindly.  Karen turns this Be Happy, Dammit! episode into "the feel sexy show!" Karen gets help morphing the sexy discussion into actionable tips with Dr. Mark Goulston, author of Get Out of Your Own Way, Christi Smith & Ted Scoffield, creators of the sexy board game Pervartistry, Adam Walden, founder of Gen Art, Peg Samuel, founder of Social Diva and Josey Miller, Love & Sex Senior Producer at iVillage.com.

Ever wonder why Valentine's Day falls during the coldest, grayest time of the year? Ancient Romans picked the day to celebrate their pagan fertility queen Juno by running naked through the streets. Later, medieval Europeans started sending Valentine's to their loved ones on the date, declaring it the first day of the year when birds began to mate. In short, this has always been the season to strip down and get it on. Whatever the weather, Valentine's is a great occasion to slip under the covers, pore over one of these enlightening books, and turn up the heat.

A new spate of sex self-help books reveals a vigorous interest (at least on the part of authors) in mechanics. The last year or so has seen the publication of his-and-her texts like Blow Him Away: How to Give Him Mind-Blowing Oral Sex; The Low Down on Going Down: How to Give Her Mind-Blowing Oral Sex; She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman; and Tickle His Pickle: Your Hands-On Guide to Penis Pleasing. As a former sex columnist, I’m all for people enlightening themselves about bodies––their own and their partners’––and delving into pleasure with an academic’s zeal and a healthy sense of humor. But this avalanche of genital-centric manuals is intriguing and just a little bit dismaying. Is it a delayed response to I-did-not-have-sex-with-that-woman titillation? An overdue Sex and the City-inspired celebration? Or is it a disembodied race for sexual perfection?