
"I also left behind my children whom I tolerated over the years," Hicks said, listing Bob as her favorite. In the obituary, she affectionately wrote about her husband, Ron, whom she called a "Horse's Ass," and her children, clearly labeling which ones she liked best. If buying AA-powered joy isn’t for her, ask a gynecologist about a vaginal dilator, essentially the same thing only more clinical and without the vibrations.'Fox & Friends' apologizes for making it seem like Ruth Bader Ginsburg died She doesn't necessarily need a man, either. According to the Mayo Clinic “regular sexual activity helps you maintain healthy vaginal tissues.” Yippee! Having sex is therapeutic, and that’s not just Sexploration saying so. But one way to keep her lady parts working is to use them. Usually vaginal atrophy is easily treated with intravaginal doses of estrogen, or with hormone replacement therapy (which may not be appropriate for every woman). However, women might also experience urinary incontinence and urinary tract infections, so this is certainly something to be avoided even if you’ve sworn off sex.

Symptoms usually include painful intercourse, which is why you consulted Sexploration. But women of any age - cancer patients who've gone through chemotherapy, for instance -can experience it, too. Most often it occurs in menopausal women due to a lack of estrogen - up to half of postmenopausal women will have symptoms. Vaginal atrophy can happen quickly, slowly, or not at all. Why can smoking be a turn on? A 2005 paper by University of Southern California sociologist Julie Albright quotes Freud’s old saw about cigars and cigarettes being phallus substitutes: “‘To put it plainly: the fetish is a substitute for the woman’s (mother’s) phallus which the little boy once believed in and does not wish to forego….’ The fetish as symbol of the mother’s penis comes also to represent her desire, thereby affirming that her desire lies with him and not with the father.” So we get thousands of smoking fetish photos on Flickr, smoking fetish videos on You Tube, and, of course, smoking porn sites galore.

But the smoking backlash can have the perverse effect of making it seem even more decadent, sort of like eating a bacon-stuffed meatloaf wrapped in bacon.

Now, of course, we know that smoking kills people. The resulting rotogravure pictures in newspapers sent cigarette sales soaring. It was 11 years before Edward Bernays pulled off the most successful public relations stunt in history on behalf of the American Tobacco Company by arranging for women to stroll down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in the 1929 Easter Parade while smoking. This was five years before a woman in New York City was arrested for smoking in public. The point is that smoking and naughtiness have been linked since at least 1917 when silent film star Theda “The Vamp” Bara, billed as the wickedest woman in the world, lounged on a settee wearing a transparent gown and languidly raising a cigarette to her lips. These weren’t the goody-two-shoes, obey the rules, no-making-out-on-the-first-date girls, no sireee! I remember - well, never mind what I remember. Is this common? To think a woman smoking might be sexy? In my old high school, if you wanted some idea of who the wicked girls were, you’d find out which ones snuck cigarettes in the bathrooms.
