Margaret L. Wade: Readings

"Embracing Eros" on CarnalNation.com: "Embracing Eros" reveals ancient and contemporary sacred sex secrets and talks with current day practitioners for CarnalNation.com, the sex website that treats you like an adult.
Working with a Sacred Erotic Healer (pdf): This is part of a chapter from Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers, published this year by Suade Publishing Inc.:

Reclaiming Eros, co-authored with Suzanne Blackburn, tells the stories of eleven contemporary Sacred Erotic Workers and four of their clients.

We live in an age in which many new and creative healing modalities are finding their way into mainstream culture. The stories in Reclaiming Eros remind us that, “Our bodies contain great wisdom, healing and creative power, and Eros is key to accessing them. Taking steps toward our wholeness includes integrating our sexuality.”
Sex as We Mature: It Only Gets Better!: First published in Open Exchange, January 2005:

Our society assumes that all of us lose interest in sex as we mature. It is "common sense" to expect decreased libido as our bodies and hormones change. Ever-present are subtle messages that this is how it should be. It is rare to see movies or novels about older lovers...
African Cleansers and Precessional Effects: I’m sitting here with a copy of an article in front of me about “cleansers” in African villages. It tells the story of a woman whose husband died recently, so now she was supposed to have sex with the village “cleanser.” The cleanser is a man who has sex with widows and other women who have recently experienced the death of a family member. Having sex with the cleanser makes the women fit for society again by driving away evil spirits....
Seeking Cybersmarts:Writers examine artificial intelligence, robots of future: A double book review in the Houston Chronicle:

BORED with psychic predictions of the next year and new century? Two science-based books by well-respected names in technology take the long view and come up with interesting predictions. Be ready for surprises.

Ray Kurzweil, inventor of the Kurzweil Reading Machine, and Hans Moravec, founder of the robotics program at Carnegie Mellon University, both start with the thesis that creation of technology will power the next steps in evolution on Earth....
The Precessional Effects of a Same-sex Marriage Amendment (pdf): A same-sex marriage amendment is an amazingly ridiculous idea that I believe was proposed primarily for political reasons. But it seems a good opportunity for a delicious precessional effect: gender education for the masses....
Summer Harvest (pdf): It’s summer harvest time in the World’s Smallest Kingdom. Each community schedules its harvest festival for a different weekend so the king can attend them all....
Safe Haven (pdf): Since I was young, I’ve heard stories of babies, usually newborns, being abandoned. Abandoned on the steps of churches, by the front doors of hospitals, at orphanages. Why, even Harry Potter was abandoned – on the stoop of a very unpleasant family of relatives....