Sex & Vice, Creative Loafing Atlanta

5 signs you're stuck in a relationship Groundhog Day

Melysa Martinez — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:00:00 -0500

It's time to break your cycle of dating d�j� vu by Melysa Martinez The other day a girlfriend and I met up at our usual watering hole. We sat down in our usual spot and ordered our usual drinks.…

Getting real about herpes

Melysa Martinez — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0500

One in four has it. And it shouldn't be a relationship death sentence. by Melysa Martinez A few weeks ago, a website called Str8Media caused quite the stir on a local and national level after it published statistics by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention which listed the top 15 cities with the worst herpes rates in the country. So which city, you ask, was sitting pretty at No. 1 with as high as a 40 percent infection rate?…

Learning to love my big ass

Melysa Martinez — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0500

Why, for the first time in a long time, I'm not on a New Year's diet by Melysa Martinez I studied her body. I was jealous of her abundance.…

The question remains: 'Are you shaved?'

Melysa Martinez — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:15:00 -0500

HuffPo is wrong: It's not a pass� question, it's an eternal one by Melysa Martinez It was the way he ran his fingers through me, between the strands, sometimes clasping his fingers together, a slight tug that simultaneously subdued the chaos of curls and heightened the awareness of human contact. It was, quite possibly, the first time a man loved my natural state fully.…

The Madonna-whore-lawyer conundrum

Melysa Martinez — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:00:00 -0500

Some good girls do, and some bad girls don't. Either way, we love to label them. by Melysa Martinez It was the conversation that ended our friendship. "She's a virgin," he told me. Then in his late 20s, my lawyer friend proceeded to ask me how he could convince the woman he was seeing to let him go down on her.…

Let's talk about sex: Is Atlanta uptight?

Melysa Martinez — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:00:00 -0500

Our new sex columnist wonders if the city is willing to open up for her new column, Are You Shaved? by Melysa Martinez My four-legged daughter and I were playing tug-of-war in the backyard on a Friday night when I felt my ass vibrate. It was a text message from my buddy Jesus.…