New Year's Sexual Resolution #6: Integrate Your Sexual Self

If you're already making a mental list of New Year's resolutions about your health, your finances, and how you're going to deal with family stress differently next holiday season, why not put sexuality on the list. Often overlooked and undervalued as a "luxury", our sexuality isn't just something that happens 1.4 times a week under the covers, its part of who we are. Make some New Year's sexual resolutions, and set a different sexual tone for 2006.

Many of us tend to compartmentalize our sexual selves. We try to remove sex from the rest of our identity (so sex becomes merely a thing we do, not all the things we are) and we draw artificial boundaries around our sexual desires. We deny long held sexual fantasies, we act in certain ways because it is what we think is expected of us. Read more...