Reading Time: 6 minutes OnlySky · What's the future for legalizing psychedelics | Becky Garrison As Michael Pollan reported in his Netflix documentary How to Change Your Mind, psychedelics have been viewed as part of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out culture popularized by the likes of Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, and other merry pranksters of the ‘60s, at least in […]
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Enhance your sex life with a sexual guide
Reading Time: 3 minutes OnlySky · Enhance your sex life with a sexual guide | Becky Garrison A sexual guide can be a valuable companion in helping you connect to your sexuality. While you can make these sexual connections on your own, sometimes the activation of sexual energy and the opening of the heart, pineal gland, and other subtle […]
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Hey preachers! The demons aren’t making you masturbate
Reading Time: 2 minutes Masturbation is both super and natural, but there is nothing supernatural about it. Not even in a good way. Your desire to pleasure yourself is not caused by angels or demons, but simply by your own wonderful physiology. But Christian preachers such as Vlad Saychuk, speaking at a National Deliverance Training Conference hosted by the notorious […]
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Getting to know and love your vaginal fluids
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’ve ever gone inside a large supermarket or pharmacy in the U.S., no doubt you’ve seen products labeled “feminine hygiene.” But have you stopped to ask what is supposedly unhygienic about women’s reproductive parts? It turns out, there are a lot of misunderstandings about vaginas and vulvas. Even the terms can be confusing: vagina […]
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Celebrating the sex-positive power of the pussy
Reading Time: 3 minutes OnlySky · Celebrating the sex-positive power of the pussy with Eleanor O’Brien | Becky Garrison While the current “talk” about female sexuality may come off as sounding “sex-positive,” corporate media remains stuck in the era of Mad Men. Taboo topics remain taboo with sites such as OnlySky getting demonetized by their ad server for penning […]
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Everything is connected: My experience with psilocybin mushrooms
Reading Time: 6 minutes OnlySky · My experience with psilocybin mushrooms On July 12th, Netflix dropped the documentary series How to Change Your Mind based on Michael Pollan’s bestselling book of the same name. Shelby Hartman, co-founder of DoubleBlind Magazine, a publication dedicated to psychedelics, reflected on the significance of Pollan’s work. Major outlets like the New York Times […]
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The complications of legalizing cannabis
Reading Time: 5 minutes Even though an increasing number of states continue to pass legislation legalizing cannabis for medicinal and recreational use, the laws governing this legislation leave many consumers, especially those who use this plant as their natural medicine, unsure regarding what exactly they can do within the boundaries of the law. At the federal level, cannabis and […]
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Mass killings: Why we need to see the murdered innocents
Reading Time: 7 minutes For several decades beginning in the 1950s, driver education classes in the United States included screenings of “shock films”—documentary shorts, narrated in police drama style, created to bring the reality of high-speed collisions home to young drivers. Names like Highway of Agony, Mechanized Death, and Red Asphalt were meant to terrify teenagers into driving safely. […]
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Whatever you’re into: A beginner’s guide to healthy kink
Reading Time: 4 minutes OnlySky · Whatever you’re into—a beginner’s guide to healthy kink | Becky Garrison For those who think of alternative sexual practices as a strictly modern phenomenon, a trek throughout history demonstrates that kink has been a part of human sexual exploration for centuries. You can find drawings and carvings of threesomes decorating Hindu temples, and […]
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Magic mushroom therapy could be saving lives, but taboo stands in the way
Reading Time: 3 minutes An abundance of ongoing research regarding psychedelics, including psilocybin or ‘magic mushrooms,’ supports their strong potential to assist in altering maladaptive behaviors from cigarette smoking and substance disorders to depression and stress-related disorders such as PTSD. Especially interesting is its potential regarding alcohol and substance abuse. Since mental health treatment for these taboo behaviors has […]