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Let’s Make 2016, The Year of Better Sex

It’s a New Year and it’s time for those notorious New Year’s resolutions. These are goals we set for the new year ahead. Often we set goals like losing weight, getting more exercise, getting a new job, or eating better. I suggest a different goal: improving your sex lives and having a more pleasurable year.

We know exercise and eating well is a recipe for a healthier life. With advancement in sex research over the last 65 years, we are discovering that the amount of sex America is having is contributing to our poor physical and mental health.

Read morePosted by David Fishman on January 11, 2016

From Asylums to Prison: How to fix our broken Mental Health System

Natasha McKenna, a 37-year-old Fairfax County, Virginia woman suffering from mental illness, died in jail after being tasered by police.

The NAACP has a point that tasers should not be allowed to be used on mentally ill people, but the real issue is why Natasha was in jail and not in a treatment facility. The mentally ill have no place in jails because they need care, not incarceration. Across the nation, our prison system is the main provider of mental health care. A prison is no place for a person with mental illness.

Read morePosted by David Fishman on October 13, 2015

Relationships

Ashley Madison Leak: Unintended consequences

The spin of the Ashley Madison Leak has been that leakers are bad, but the victims are bad too, because they are cheating on their spouses. When we out people who do not want to be outed it can be devastating. As a result, the Ashley Madison leak not only placed the people on their site and their partners at risk to have their identity stolen, but the leak put all those people’s mental health, marriage, and even their life in jeopardy.

Read morePosted by David Fishman on September 1, 2015

Sexuality

“I Am The Perfect Gentlemen”

On Friday May 23, 2014 Elliot Rodger a 22 year-old student at University of California-Santa Barbra shot 15 killing 7 including himself. The questions and issues in this case are numerous. I can talk about the fact that he was able to get a gun or about the mental health system, I am not going to talk about those issue but rather I am going to discuss the two issue no one is covering in the media but is a wide spread and detrimental to our culture and society. I am going to talk about his views about sex and women. In this case the center of Elliot’s rage.

Read morePosted by David Fishman on June 12, 2014