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Saturday, January 28, 2006 12:00 AM

Sexual healing

I used to relish the challenge of being good in bed. I read the Kama Sutra with steely discipline, confident there wasn't a skill I couldn't master. Then I had a baby.

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  • Friday, January 27, 2006 08:29 PM

    Oh, it could be worse...

    At least there was no creepy pseudointellectual discussion on, say, how Real Dolls could be "transitional objects" for partners learning how to be intimate again under new physiological rules. It could have gone something like this, "I used the female Real Doll to show my husband how to be sensual with my postpartum ravaged body. When I wasn't up to the task, he would thankfully spend the night on the sofa with her. My male Real Doll allowed me to eventually get up to sexual speed with zero anxieties."

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