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Introducing: The Pincus Center
You could say that we have a passion for self-discovery here in our practice; it’s a marvelous thing every time we’re able to see a client understand themselves better and step more fully into the person they were meant to be. There’s nothing quite like the joy in...
Black Lives Matter by Tamara Pincus
So, in this time of unprecedented civil unrest I feel compelled to talk about where we as a practice stand on the issues. In my practice and in my personal life I have been watching for years the way in which systemic racism continues to impact people I care about....
When We Believe We Are Unloveable
Many of us walk through the world struggling with the belief that we are unloveable. Often it is hard to even figure out where this message comes from. It starts early when we are young and feel for whatever reason like we haven’t been accepted or loved by those...
What To Do if You Are The One Accused of a Consent Violation
These days I am encountering a lot of issues where people in various communities to which I belong are being accused publically of consent violations or being abusive in their romantic relationships. This is actually something which we are all susceptible to....
Lessons from a Sex Therapist Parent
I spent this weekend binge-watching the new Netflix series Sex Education. In the series the main character is a teenage son of a sex therapist single mother. I thought this might be a good opportunity to talk about some of the good things and not so good things that...
What sex is healthy?
So now that you have been looking at our webpage and seeing the kind of work that we do you may be wondering to yourself, how do we define what is sexually healthy? This is a really important question and it is one we have to think about a lot. It is easy to make...
The Basics on Fetishes
Even though the concept of fetishes does not appear under this acronym of BDSM, many kinksters get super turned on by certain objects or body parts. Modern kinksters generally reject the Freudian conception of fetishes as evidence of a malfunctioning or immature...
What is BDSM?
BDSM, also called kinky sex, is an umbrella category for all sorts of sex games and interactions. At the base of all kinky sex is the consensual exchange of power, where people negotiate together about what they do and do not want to happen in the sexy play. Often the...
Gender 101
As we move past National Coming Out Day (October 11th) and the First International Pronoun Day (October 17th), we thought we’d take a moment to educate our clients on gender identities and pronouns. Before we fully launch, we wanted to stress that sexuality and gender...