Mommy erotica? The proof is in the porn

By Aisha Sultan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Freud would have a field day in the video aisles at Pure Pleasure Adult Megacenters.

Mommy issues are making it in a most unexpected way, and the proof is in the porn. There is a booming genre of videos devoted to eroticizing mothers.

But why? What’s driving the surging interest in yummy mummies (as they quaintly refer to them across the pond)?

In fact, there’s a perfect storm of factors encouraging this fantasy: a bad economy in which men have been particularly bruised and a generation of man-boys stuck in arrested adolescence.

If young men are feeling particularly hapless, helpless and jobless in this moment, a soccer mom fantasy may be comforting or empowering. Does watching a mother, an...

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The real deal on getting back into the sack post-baby

By Erin van Vuuren, TheBump.com

Hi. I’m a new mom, and I have no sex life. (Your cue: Hi, Erin.)

I’m not kidding. Right now, sex seems uncomfortable, time-consuming, and oddly depressing. My friend, Beth, is a new mom too … and she can’t get enough of the stuff.

(I hate her.) Which of us is normal? Well, according to Dr. Jennifer Wider, MD, author of “The New Mom’s Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby,” we both are. Her simple explanation? “We’re all different.” Yeah, we all knew that, but this is one of those cases where little reassurance goes a long way. To help ease your mind (and mine), let’s take a look at a few...

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