Love and Sex

It's All Natural

(Anson Stevens-Bollen)

By Enrique Limón

talk about sex for now to the people at home or in the crowd," says a lyric in Salt-n-Pepa's 1991 sex-positive anthem, "Let's Talk About Sex." Depending on your background-generational, religious or otherwise-your experience touching on the topic with your parents might not have been so smooth. The temptation to broach this special issue in a salacious fashion is strong, but when you think about it, sex-good sex-is all about love, trust, exploration and a pleasure that is, at its crux, all natural. Remember receiving "the talk"? In my case, it went a little something like this: Mom forming a teardrop shape by joining the fingers on both hands and explaining, "This is a man; this a woman," and then very slowly joining hands and saying, "This is a baby." Et voil`, right? The real explanation would come later when my friend Fernando let me borrow me one of his dad's VHS porns. Much like the slight of hand shown by my mom, the experience of watching a woman pleasure herself with a lit candle is forever etched in my mind. Based on those traumas, it's a small miracle that I'm not exclusively into fisting behind Bed Bath & Beyond stores. Times have changed and so have approaches. SFR online contributor Lauren Whitehurst talks about her own planned approach to having the talk with her children. On the subject of porn, Hunter Riley chats with two bona fide adult film stars about on-the-job perils in a singular umm...spread. And, if in this ever-streaming cyberworld we live in, you've developed a habit that needs to be addressed, drop the Jergens and head down Old Las Vegas Highway, where trained staff are here to help. Throughout this issue, you'll find that we tell it how it is and how it could be. How it was, and of course, how it should be. This includes features on the evolution of marriage equality, a dip into aphrodisiac drinks and an exploration into the local polyamory scene. Our own Spinderella, Alex De Vore compiles the ultimate locals-only playlist to get dumped to, and consummate foodie Rob DeWalt talks about just that, "consummating" if you will, with food. Because seriously, when you think about it, what could be more natural than fucking a watermelon?

talk about sex for now to the people at home or in the crowd," says a lyric in Salt-n-Pepa's 1991 sex-positive anthem, "Let's Talk About Sex." Depending on your background-generational, religious or otherwise-your experience touching on the topic with your parents might not have been so smooth. The temptation to broach this special issue in a salacious fashion is strong, but when you think about it, sex-good sex-is all about love, trust, exploration and a pleasure that is, at its crux, all natural.

Remember receiving "the talk"? In my case, it went a little something like this: Mom forming a teardrop shape by joining the fingers on both hands and explaining, "This is a man; this a woman," and then very slowly joining hands and saying, "This is a baby." Et voil`, right? The real explanation would come later when my friend Fernando let me borrow me one of his dad's VHS porns. Much like the slight of hand shown by my mom, the experience of watching a woman pleasure herself with a lit candle is forever etched in my mind. Based on those traumas, it's a small miracle that I'm not exclusively into fisting behind Bed Bath & Beyond stores.

Times have changed and so have approaches. SFR online contributor Lauren Whitehurst talks about her own planned approach to having the talk with her children. On the subject of porn, Hunter Riley chats with two bona fide adult film stars about on-the-job perils in a singular umm...spread. And, if in this ever-streaming cyberworld we live in, you've developed a habit that needs to be addressed, drop the Jergens and head down Old Las Vegas Highway, where trained staff are here to help.

Throughout this issue, you'll find that we tell it how it is and how it could be. How it was, and of course, how it should be. This includes features on the evolution of marriage equality, a dip into aphrodisiac drinks and an exploration into the local polyamory scene.

Our own Spinderella, Alex De Vore compiles the ultimate locals-only playlist to get dumped to, and consummate foodie Rob DeWalt talks about just that, "consummating" if you will, with food. Because seriously, when you think about it, what could be more natural than fucking a watermelon?

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