Talk about a progressive teaching plan. A high school principal at a private school in England wants porn stars to teach sex education to students. This will initially freak out any parent -- myself included. It's outrageous, to be sure, but brilliant too. Here's why.

Some of us see masturbation as a beautiful thing. The most thrilling solo dance. Like a waltz with your hand. Others may truly feel it makes you go blind and grow hair on your palms. Those people clearly are out of touch ... with themselves. But there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Particularly if we overdose on porn. Men, I'm looking at you. Overdoing self-pleasure when watching unattainable porn sex can make you disinterested in making sweet love with an actual person. It takes away from the beautiful tango you could be doing with a lover.

Out of this, an anti-masturbation movement was born so that lovers can be more lovely when it comes to lovemaking. I can't argue with that kind of thinking. But I don't think we should retire our solo trysts or porno love either. And just like many relationships, this thought is complicated.

The popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has meant that a lot of women are finally getting into the BDSM lifestyle, or at least introducing a bit of into the bedroom. Author and professional dominatrix Kimi Inch, aka Ms. Nina Payne, has a new eBook, Kisses to Kink: A Dominatrix's Guide to Great Sex, which explains how to bring a little spank and flog into your home dungeon. Here, Kimi gives us the lowdown on how to spice up your bedroom routine, 50 Shades-style.

A prominent doctor stands accused of poisoning her fellow doctor/lover's coffee with a compound found in antifreeze. The man is someone with whom she had a "casual sexual relationship," and while no motive has been discussed, it seems easy to extrapolate that perhaps the doctor accused -- Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo -- wasn't quite so "casual" about things.

Her lover has survived, though he is very sick, and obviously 99.9 percent of people who are in relationships where they feel unappreciated wouldn't do something like this. It takes a special kind of sickness to even consider this (from a DOCTOR no less?). She denies it.

Still, if she did do it, it wouldn't be unlike the Jodi Arias case in which a woman who was madly in love didn't feel she was being taken seriously enough, and the results were disastrous. This is the danger inherent in "casual sex" when one person sees it in a totally different way than another.

I bet the whole conversation about teen pregnancy would be totally different if boys could get pregnant, too. So imagine if that really happened -- if boys could get knocked up for having unprotected sex. That's exactly what an anti-teen-pregnancy ad campaign in Chicago imagines. It's plastered Photoshopped images of pregnant teenage boys all over bus shelters, buses, and trains in neighborhoods where teen pregnancy rates are high. I'm sure they're getting a lot of double-takes, especially from the boys who usually ignore anti-teen-pregnancy messages.

Has this ever happened to you? You're out with one of your friends, who happens to have a penis, and you somehow end up falling in to bed with him.

How'd that go for you?

I did this once. And I admit there was alcohol involved. Lost in the moment, it seemed like a good idea. We were alone on an island for a night. Who could it hurt? But after our one and done encounter, our friendship was never the same. Having sex permanently changes your relationship, no matter how close you were before.

So while I’m all for having casual sex, here are 5 reasons why having sex with a friend will ruin your friendship:

No matter what critics of the Fifty Shades of Grey series have to say about the books' writing or potential underlying sexist or abusive messages in the story, researchers published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine seem to be on the Christian Grey bandwagon! They say that in their study, people who practice BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism) appeared to be healthier mentally than those who stuck to vanilla sex.

Whoa, maybe that means Christian wasn't "fifty shades of f-ed up" after all?!

Do you remember the first time you were naked with a guy? I don’t mean the first time ever. I’m talking about the first time with someone new, like after a break-up. Maybe you were nervous. Maybe you felt a little self-conscious about baring your body.

Or, if you were me, baring your body to someone for the first time since you had been divorced, you felt very self-conscious.

Before my foray in to sex after my divorce, the last time I had been with someone new was when I was in my mid-20s. And it was with my first husband-to-be. Before kids, before two C-sections and breastfeeding had taken their tolls on my body.

So here I was, in my mid-30s, with a post-kids body, getting ready to be intimate with someone new. I was nervous and my usually latent insecurity was making itself known.