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FEBRUARY 2005

Publishers Message - When Tough Love Comes A Knockin’ – Open the Door

You don’t love me? You are leaving? Wait…What about all those years? And the house, and the kids? ... and…. oh well. Good-bye.

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Interview With A Sex Goddess -- Annie Sprinkle

Why am I so interested in sex? Why have I devoted thirty years to exploring it relentlessly? Because sexuality is not only something that can be used for the enhancement of an intimate relationship, for physical pleasure or procreation. It can also be used for personal transformation, physical and emotional healing, self-realization, spiritual growth, and as a way to learn about all of life… and death. I want to help our society mature and evolve sexually, and be a safer place. My motto is: Let there be pleasure on earth, and let it begin with me. – Dr. Annie Sprinkle

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Not Your Mother's Tupperware Party

Just what type of businesses do Vermont women start? Financial consulting, marketing firm, or retail store — perhaps. But there’s also a new business in town: the “Adult Novelties and Romance Enhancers” business, featuring adult home parties.

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Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther is among the vanguard of those who put sex back in literature, where it belongs: Rita Mae Brown, Erica Jong, even Philip Roth -- wonderful American authors who did groundbreaking work in writing about love and sex. Ms. Alther's best-selling first book Kinflicks came out in 1975, followed by four other popular novels. Vermont Woman visited with the novelist at her Vermont home.

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Reforms Fall Short of Mark for Female Offenders

Last month, Governor Douglas accepted the first phase of prison reforms recommended by Secretary of Human Services Charlie Smith. The continuing momentum for overall reform of the correctional system threatens to obscure the increasingly precarious situation of Vermont’s female offenders, who are now officially, and consistently, overcrowded.

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