Posts Tagged ‘books about sex’

The Cookie Sutra

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 by Bat Sheva Marcus LMSW MPH PhD

Every once in a while a book comes out that makes us smile. The Cookie Sutra is one of them.

Written with a witty tongue-in-cheek style with adorable pictures of gingerbread men and women in a variety of compromising positions, this book would make a really fun gift. As the cover states, this is the book  “Where imaginations are fertile, love will never grow stale, nor crumble.” The book’s dedication is (presumably) to the author’s  partner: “For Lisa, for showing me where we keep the baking stuff and not asking why.” And it even has a recipe for gingerbread cookies at the end. Haven’t tried it yet… but believe you me, I will!

Smart kids and sex

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 by Bat Sheva Marcus LMSW MPH PhD

We have every excuse in the book why we don’t talk to our children about sex. A favorite one is: “they are  not ready.”   I think we really like to believe that our children are innocent and can’t handle information on sex. That is just not true and study after study suggests that the more we talk to our kids about sex the more correct information they have, the more responsible they are and the later they become sexually active.

But in case you still have any doubts,  here’s a fun statistic quoted in my favorite parenting/sex book , Everything you Never Wanted Your Kids To Know about Sex but Were Afraid They’d Ask (see our blog posting that delves into this book a little more: 

http://www.centerforfemalesexuality.com/blog/2008/03/07/talking-to-kids-about-sex/

The average age in America when a child can articulate correctly how children are conceived and born is 11. The average age in Britain is 9. And the average age in the Netherlands is 7!! So unless you think that the kids in the Netherlands are somehow inherently smarter, you’ll have to admit it’s cultural!

Start talking. Trust me, your kids can handle it.