My Parents' Sex Life on Conde Nast sex blog!

Check out this interview I did with amazing Em and Lo....

I'm honored that Daily Bedpost featured (What I Know About) My Parents' Sex Life

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(What I Know About) My Parents' Sex Life

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If I wasn't performing BabyLove that night, this is where I'd be!

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Tuesday June 24th, 7-9 pm

A first draft of my new show (What I Know About) My Parents' Sex Life goes up at P.S. 122

on Thursday.  From nursing homes to granny porn, from my father's Viagra prescription to my mother's racy letters: my new show explores senior sexuality.

And I'm not the only one writing about senior sexuality, take a look at this article on Slate.

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Sexy Mama Take #4 - sexy mom self image

After I gave birth, I felt disfigured and damaged.  I was.  I had stitches and was injured there.   I shook.  Immediately I decided - this isn't happening.  No one must know.  I started doing Kegels obsessively. 

 I worked hard at trying to keep my sexual self image after my son was born....but it felt like a lie.  I was wearing black lace bras and ripped down the front wife beaters to show off my milk bar, but I was terrified of intercourse.  I did heal and we did eventually resume our sexual life, however my self image had changed.   I was trying to subvert the image of the sexless mother, but only on the surface.  It took me a few years to come to terms with myself- my changed body, my relationship with my husband and son, with myself.

I'm of two minds about the Angelina Jolie/yummy mummy phenom: on one hand, I want to be one, of course I do.  But on the other, I feel like I can never live up to that.  It just creates another thing for women to feel bad about themselves...it doesn't provide us with a real view of sexuality and motherhood.  The horniness of pregnancy, yes, but celebrities don't show us passing blood clots for weeks afterwards, stretch marks, nipples a mile long from breastfeeding, or the lovely but strange eroticism of loving a new human being that just came out of your body.

I'm pregnant now, and totally into my body: my breasts are full, I'm wearing tight clothes to show off the belly and boobs...and I'm aware this will be last time I'll feel like this.  Full, all that extra blood, walking anticipation.  

Sexy Mama Take #3 - Quickies versus Special nights: scheduling sex

 First of all, I never thought I would have to schedule sex.  I thought it would come back right away after our son was born.  I had heard tell of couples who didn't have sex for (gasp!) 4 months after the baby was born and I was sure we would never be one of them.  My partner Ken and I would be back to sex after a few weeks, tops.

It took us seven months.

Well, we had one afternoon of touching and orgasms at about five months, which reassured us that my equipment still worked.  But I was too scared to have intercourse.  Until finally I couldn't believe that it had been seven months and I just said to him one day after the three of us came home from afternoon stroll and Felix was still asleep in his stroller, "How about we take the chance he stays asleep and actually have sex?"

And now, we schedule sometimes and enjoy quickies.  We had a quickie this morning, our son was up late so I knew he'd sleep in a  little this morning.  I woke up and woke Ken up slowly.  Afterwards, we heard noise coming from his room, and realized our door was open.  I panicked and thought he'd woken up and seen us and then gone back to his room to play.  A few held breaths later, we realized it was just him turning in his sleep.  

We have occasionally hired a babysitter for special night out, and more than once planned special nights in, after the little one has gone to sleep.

We even dropped our son off for an overnight at friends (who were not exactly dying to have an almost two-year-old stay over-- they were newly engaged and I'm afraid we terrified them) and we got a last minute deal on a four star hotel room and had awesome hotel sex over and over and over until check out.  

And now, since I'm pregnant, I'm starting to plan for some sex adventures, knowing that come November, I'll be in time out for a little awhile.

Bubble bath and Edgy Moms

As part of this sexy mamas blog, Babeland sent me some products (and I have some to give away!) including  Evening Rapture Bubble Bath.  Now I know they meant this as a way to get me in the mood with my partner, but I confess...I ran out of Johnson and Johnson's so I used the Babeland product for Felix.  I got in too, to make me feel less guilty about sharing something that was supposed to be just for grown ups.

He proclaimed it "excellent...lots of bubbles....we can make bubble sculptures mommy!"  And so we did.  We both smelled nice afterwards and our skin was not dried out.

I did the Edgy Moms reading at the Montauk Club in Brooklyn tonight.  The packed audience went from raucous laughter to teary silence; Amy Sohn and Louise Crawford organized a super event.  I read an awfully randy scene from BabyLove, Amy read a funny essay about a 2's programs application and competitive motherhood; and Louise told a story about watching her son perform at Bowery Poetry Club.  Also on the bill was Amy Benfer, who I loved.  She read a very moving account of her teen aged pregnancy, and her 18 year old daughter was there too.  Also: Michele Madigan Somerville, who has ensured that I will never look at Elmo the same way again; Lenore Skenazy, who controversially let her 9 year old son take the subway by himself (I'm planning on letting Felix start when he's 7); Sophia Romero the Shiksa from Manila; and Louise Sloan, who hilariously told a tale from her book Knock Yourself Up.  It was a wonderful evening and I was thrilled to be a part of it.  Claire Cavanagh was in attendance as well, getting ready to open a new Babeland store in Park Slope.  Hmmm...perhaps call it the Horny Mom store?