In our culture, sex is something we think about often, but rarely actually talk about.

This month, as Cal Exotics Sexperts™, we were sent another great product to review. Just a reminder, each product is rated, by our testers (2 couples), using The Love Bird’s Feathers Rating Scale™:

1 = “Not so hot” to

5 = “VERY, VERY HOT!”

“The hotter the product is, the more feathers it will take to cool you off!”

The new product we received is called the Phil Varone Little Black Heart™.

It’s impossible to know where low self-esteem begins.

Tightening the belt can squeeze your relationship, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, sometimes, it can be a good thing.

We all know at least one couple who make us sick. Usually, they’ve been together since Michael J. Fox was a child actor and act like they are still on their honeymoon. They holds hands, make the goo-goo eyes at each other and act so sweet to each other that it makes the rest of us reach for the insulin.

When we look around, we’re noticing something odd. People aren’t happy.

Not everyone, at least. A recent study by the Society for Human Resource Management made it clear that Americans are having problems balancing their home life and their work life. In our profession, we refer to that experience as the “work/life balance” — and according to the statistics, it’s looking like an uneven teeter-totter.

There is nothing better than a good bedroom partner, and there’s nothing worse than a bad one. The irony is that it could be the same person, just on different days.

And with all the media focus on sex and sexuality, you’d think that couples would talk about it more than they do, but our experience is that they don’t. Honesty in the bedroom is not easy to come by. But the cliche of our profession is “communication.” We are constantly stressing to couples they need to communicate better, but there are more ways to communicate than just through conversation. Non-verbal communication can be just as effective, if not more effective, than talking. With that in mind, we’d like to offer five tips to help you get past the chatter and enjoy yourselves more as couples in the bedroom.