How a Couple Should Do a Sex Talk

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Elizabeth Bernstein, What Couples Want to Know But Are Too Shy to Ask. Wall Street Journal, Aug 29, 2012.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 26600963764604.html

Note:
(a)
(i) midshipman (n): "a person in training for a naval commission; especially : a student in a naval academy"
www.m-w.com
(ii) midshipman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midshipman
(In the 17th century, a midshipman was a rating for an experienced seaman, and the word derives from the area aboard a ship, amidships, either where the original rating worked on the ship, or where he was berthed)
(b) United States Merchant Marine Academy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni ... hant_Marine_Academy
(one of the five United States Service academies; charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, or the transportation industry; Established 1942; Location Kings Point, New York)
(c) Pamela Madsen, Shameless: How I ditched the diet, got naked, found true pleasure and somehow got home in time to cook dinner. Rodale, 2011.
http://books.google.com/books/ab ... tml?id=z7l-nCDe8soC
(d) The Danish/Norwegian surname means son of Mad--a pet form Mathias (which in turn is the Greek spelling of Matthew).