To all my peeps in the U S of A, happy Thanksgiving.

There are so many things to be grateful for every day, and I’m always reminded of the blessings in my life, especially when driving around certain parts of Los Angeles. Today, for instance, I saw a half naked man literally putting his pants on at the corner of LaBrea and Pico Blvd. and I thought, I’m so thankful, and lucky, to have a home to put my pants on in.

I’m thankful for lots. Friends. Family. Sun. Being alive. Laughter. Anyone who has ever taught me a thing or two, or who has touched my life, or let me touch their life too. While the list goes on, and on, and on…in staying topical, or at least trying to, I’ve decided to do another list (because oh my, how I love lists!) about the things about sex (wide definition here, people) that I’m thankful for.

1. The moment of insertion in intercourse when his penis, a dildo, finger, condomed vegetable or what-not first slides into the vagina. Oh my, what a lovely moment.
2. Kissing. Starting out soft and slow and working up to those mind-blowing-hot-tongue-action type of transactions.
3. Heavy petting, even just the thought of it.
4. Silicone lube for having no taste and lasting long time.
5. The passionate people with the small companies who make sex toys because they love sex and design and/or tech stuff too.
6. The equal opportunity pure wand.
7. The pioneering women who made it possible for me to work in this field and not feel weird about it, with a special shout out to one of my favorite people in the ENTIRE universe, Candida Royalle.
8. The Eroscillator. For making me orgasm more often than any other sex toy ever has.
9. The baby step the Vatican made in saying that condoms are “the lesser of two evils when used to curb the spread of AIDS, even if their use prevents a pregnancy. (Yahoo)
10. Queefing and other gentle, and not-so gentle, reminders that sex doesn’t always sound, look or feel like what you see in Hollywood movies, or (thank-goddess) in a lot of porn.
11. That sex can sometimes take you away from your life and other times bring you right back down to earth.