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Pamela Madsen

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Pamela Madsen, M.S. is the author of Shameless and founder of The American Fertility Association.

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Recent Posts
Demystifying the Transgender Movement
For most people Gender is a very simple thing. When you are born a midwife, doula, doctor or nurse looks at a babies genitals and decides whether the baby is female or male. That magic letter “F” or “M” is put on the babies birth certificate and the gender of the baby is settled. Or is it?
On Being Female and Sexual Agency
Women continue to internalize the sociocultural assumptions that grant their male partners' sexual needs over their own. Understanding this pattern of behavior is empowering to women as they negotiate their sexual agency with health care providers, lovers and life partners.
Sex, Dying, and Death: An Integral Part of Living
Would you be concerned about your sexuality if you were told that you didn't have long to live? If breathing was hard. If going to the bathroom was a struggle? What if your connection to your own eroticism, or orgasm was something that you always had - but the disease that was stealing your life was now taking that too? Would you care?
Women "of a Certain Age" Posing Naked For Self Acceptance

Few women like their bodies. So stepping forward and getting naked or nearly naked in front of a camera has become the newest way for some mid life women to reclaim their body as beautiful. It's a radical and provocative act of self acceptance. And it's brave.

Few women like their bodies. So stepping forward and getting naked or nearly naked in front of a camera has become the newest way for some mid life women to reclaim their body as beautiful. It's a radical and provocative act of self acceptance. And it's brave.

Busting Sex Myths For Baby Boomers

The fastest growing market in sex education today is "Baby Boomers." They grew up in the sexy '60s and are now confronting their own myths around sexuality, mid-life and aging. Boomers grew up believing that after 50 was a fast trip into a kind of sexual deep sleep. Now that many boomers have received their AARP card, they are finding that they're not ready for a nap.

The fastest growing market in sex education today is "Baby Boomers." They grew up in the sexy '60s and are now confronting their own myths around sexuality, mid-life and aging. Boomers grew up believing that after 50 was a fast trip into a kind of sexual deep sleep. Now that many boomers have received their AARP card, they are finding that they're not ready for a nap.

After 50: Standing at the Sexual Crossroads

When you turn 50, you have a choice to make as a sexual being – and it is a choice. Are you going to go into menopause and close down the part of yourself that is a sexual being? Is menopause the signal that we are done being sexual? Some people think so; but there is even a greater population who are stepping into mid life sexuality with a sense of excitement and freedom.

When you turn 50, you have a choice to make as a sexual being – and it is a choice. Are you going to go into menopause and close down the part of yourself that is a sexual being? Is menopause the signal that we are done being sexual? Some people think so; but there is even a greater population who are stepping into mid life sexuality with a sense of excitement and freedom.

What if You Could Love Your Sadness?

Sadness is the opportunity for change and can bring you up close and personal with our desires and our truth.

Sadness is the opportunity for change and can bring you up close and personal with our desires and our truth.

Mothers and Daughters: Sexuality and 'The Mother Wound'

As daughters we cannot repair or save our mothers lives. But we can choose to offer ourselves and our mothers compassion. We can step away and fulfill our own potential as women without this underlying fear that our relationship with our own pleasure and sexual expression is something dangerous.

As daughters we cannot repair or save our mothers lives. But we can choose to offer ourselves and our mothers compassion. We can step away and fulfill our own potential as women without this underlying fear that our relationship with our own pleasure and sexual expression is something dangerous.