Catherine Gigante-Brown

sex sage. fetish specialist. author.

Makeup and I have always had a love/hate relationship: I love it; it hates me.

You learn a lot about people when you live in their home. The Taylors seemed to lead a joyless, Spartan existence.

Alas, I am the lone female in a house full of men. Only two men, but they take up a lot of space.

At the New York City release party for Dayna Kurtz’ latest, Rise and Fall, my friend Nadia leaned over to me and whispered, “Why the fuck

I realized my father was from a generation that never said those three little words. He was saying he loved me without them. But I didn't realize it then.

My husband and I agreed: raising a child with an independent spirit who made decisions for himself was a good thing.

"Sometimes David wore his hair spiked like a cockscomb. Others, he wore it feathery like a baby chick. He wore his Mohawk to summer camp (exchanging encouraging head chucks with another older camper who sported one, too) and even to Vacation Bible School—no judgment there."

8. Educate, don’t fixate.

erotic. intimate. unapologetic.