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Q. Do you plan to get more? A. Getting tattooed is definitely addicting, especially when I have so many talented friends. I’ve taken a lil’ break, but I’ll definitely be getting more work soon.

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Q. What is your most-prized possession? A. I’ve got books, movies and souvenirs I treasure lots, but I’m still working on making that 1974 Rickenbacker bass my most prized!

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Q. If you weren’t a kick-ass photog, what would you be? A. Well, thanks for sneakin’ in “kickass”! And if I weren’t a photographer and would’ve spent more time in school, I’d love to make movies or be a writer.

Q. Who inspires you professionally? A. Photographers that inspire me are Ellen von Unwerth, Guy Bourdin, Cindy Sherman. I also love film and directors like David Lynch, John Waters, Quentin Tarantino and [Federico] Fellini.

Q. What’s the meaning behind the first and last tattoos you got? A. I don’t have any stories behind my tattoos; it’s a mood thing. Or I’ll like an artist and want to get something randomly.

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Q. What is the most memorable photo shoot you’ve done? A. That’s a really tough question because we’ve had so many memorable ones. Some really fun, others just funny circumstances. But there is one that sticks out quite a bit. It was emotionally charged because our client was a breast cancer survivor who had finished her rounds of chemotherapy and needed to feel “girly” again. Transforming her into a Marilyn Monroe-esque bombshell and celebrating this moment with her was a great experience for us and definitely emotional, as well.

Q. What’s your favorite drink? A. Whiskey Ginger

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Q. Have you ever done one of these shoots yourself? A. I’ve never posed in a “pin-up” photo, but I have had a couple of photographer friends photograph me for bio photos. I definitely enjoy my life behind the lens more!

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Queen B was more than fortunate to be able to meet Janette Valentine and her team when she agreed to lend her talents for this issue’s cover. When we walked into her Miami studio, we were slapped in the face with vintage chic and kitsch. The entire space was a mid-century time warp, a fun and cheery space where record players, bombshells on vinyl and scattered high heels set the tone for an afternoon of frivolity. Janette’s team is a group of sex kittens whose appearances are just a cover for their mad skills. Even though they don’t work with clay or canvas, these ladies are all master artists; hair stylist Marilyn’s abilities with a curling iron are enviable; makeup artist Virginia’s talent with mascara and foundation are legendary; and wardrobe goddess Aurora is somehow magically gifted with finding clothing and wardrobe ensembles that came straight from the ’50s. Our model was a beautiful brunette

named Riki, a 39-year-old Miami journalist who agreed to model for Queen B, a fun aside as she was there to shoot pictures for her upcoming birthday party invitations. She was transformed from a city girl into a retro bombshell right before our eyes. Her look was something that seemed impossible for a regular person to pull off, yet the Terribly Girly team did so with such ease, you’d think they were just putting on lip balm: so effortless, so easy, so amazing. We love the look of mid-century women; sexy without ego, smiling ruby-red lips, black-as-night lashes and playful posing that is a far cry from today’s uber-thin, pouty poseurs. Janette, with her fading pink hair and giant camera, did the shoot in a matter of minutes, each picture she snapped better than the one before. The hair, the makeup, the clothing, the model and the photographer creating an unreal look that hopefully made you stop in your tracks and pick up our latest issue. So, enjoy what’s inside our pages, including sexy secrets we’ve teased on with the cover, a story about bringing your libido back, feminism through the ages, local profiles, money mistakes women often make and more. As far as getting the retro look for yourself, Janette Valentine and the Terribly Girly staff offer up themed shoots, the most recent of which being “Candyland.” Oh, and don’t worry about being shy; once you walk in the studio, you’ll feel as comfortable as we did, like you stumbled into a happy girl party. Visit terriblygirly.com and find them on Facebook.

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A non mom with no apologies BY MARCI SHATZMAN STAFF WRITER

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I never had kids of my own. I didn’t have a baby or raise a child full time, which always makes me stand out. People are suspect of women who don’t have children. They think we’re self-centered and incompetent to be left alone with their kids, like an addict who has to be closely supervised. In my defense, I baby-sat myself silly until I discovered boys. So I’m spectacular at walkee walkee with crying infants, and I know that kids are better behaved when their parents are out or they try to get away with murder. My sister let me take care of my niece the first week, and I did fine. So I knew all along what it meant to have kids — that your life is now about them and

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you have to put them first and yourself aside. If you don’t want that, you have no business being a parent. It wasn’t a tough decision, and I never agonized over it. My late best friend used to say I had too many male hormones, and maybe she was right. But not having kids was a conscious choice, or so I thought at the time. I was the first generation of women who made their own living and could make that decision. So for nine years, I had a five-hour commute to New York, working nights and weekends. My friends who made motherhood and careers work didn’t do day care. They had live-ins, taught school or, like me, had blended families with an adult who could always be there for the child. I bonded with my sister’s two kids and my

cousins’ and friends’ kids. My wonderful stepdaughter was already in school when I remarried 31 years ago. I found out that being a good stepmother means more like being a close aunt. She has her own mother, who I consider family and is still in our life. I had the advantage of lots of kids around me, like most people with no children of their own. If you could design your own child, it would be my stepdaughter. Now I’m a grandmother of two, and I’m insufferable. I carry photos and brag about them all the time.

But at 65, I realize I don’t have much in common with other women, and that’s why. When I bump into someone I knew in high school, she talks about child rearing and the groups she belongs to. As a journalist, we’re discouraged from joining anything, and I didn’t have to. So I have led a completely different life. Women have asked me over the years if I was ever sorry I didn’t have kids. They don’t understand why anyone would make that choice. I always tell young women that if they have to think about it, they should probably opt not to do it. It’s the one thing you can’t re-decide or give back. Most women, gay or straight, and men for that matter, want children, and they go to great lengths to have them. I found out at 55 that I could never have had kids anyway. I was surprised, but for me it always felt right.

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The ‘F’ Word BY BEVERLY LOMER, PH.D. CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In 1998, a Time magazine article asked the question, “Is Feminism Dead?” Today, the belief that we are living in a post-feminist era is widespread. Because of the gains in legal and institutional equality that were made over the past 40-plus years, there is an assumption that feminism is either defunct or no longer relevant. This way of thinking narrowly ignores the ongoing and unresolved issues we face today. There is also a fear of feminism in some — primarily conservative — circles. It is said to threaten traditional values and to perpetuate an outdated model of women as victims. Anti-feminists all too often rely on well-known, negative stereotypes that portray feminists as angry, anti-male, antifamily and unfeminine. The reality, however, is much different. While it is true that much has been accom-

plished, full parity between men and women remains elusive. Women are the primary victims of sexual and domestic violence. They make approximately 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. Even in families with two working partners, women carry the primary responsibilities for housework and child care. The objectification and commodification of female bodies continues to be a key component of the representations of women in the media and pop culture. Though there is no comparable organized liberation movement as occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, feminism is by no means dead. It just looks different. Feminists today are a diverse group in age, class and race/ethnicity, and feminism today is less formally organized and more personal. Advocacy now happens through technology, social networking and pop culture rather than marches and protests. Feminist organizations, especially those founded by young women, are more likely

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First Wave The First Wave Feminist Movement occurred in the 19th century and has been primarily associated with women’s suffrage. In this period, women had few legal rights or almost no opportunities to participate in the public sphere. Though suffrage ultimately became its main goal, First Wave feminism aimed at full parity with men in employment, education and religion. The First Wave developed out of its leaders’ work with the abolitionist cause. In 1840, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London and were outraged to learn that they were excluded from the proceedings because they were women. Galvanized to fight for women’s rights, they returned home and organized the first ever Women’s Rights Convention. The 1848 convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., produced a “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,” based on the Declaration of Independence, that included the right to vote, equality with men and full participation in public life. The fight for suffrage turned out to be a long and bitter road. In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted the right to vote to black males but not women. This split the movement into those who believed in incremental progress and those who repudiated legal changes that did not include women. The crusade continued despite these differences, and under the leadership of Alice Paul, it took a more confrontational approach. Encouraged by her participation in acts of civil disobedience in England, she organized demonstrations and protests at home in the U.S., for which they were arrested and sent to prison. In

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designed to advance a particular cause than achieving the over-arching goal of gender equality. Feminism is actually a simple concept. I usually define it for my students as a commitment to ending the use of gender as a means of oppression. Historically, the various feminist movements have been described by the wave metaphor as three and possibly four distinct events. Though the first and second feminist waves have come to be defined by particular goals, the overall agenda of each of these movements was always more broad than suffrage in the First Wave and equity in education and employment in the Second. Third Wave feminism is a more loosely organized entity that seeks to build on the progress made by the Second and modifying it, as well.

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— Women now make up the majority of college students, earning degrees, including graduate degrees, at higher rates than men. — Women earn approximately 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. — Women make up less than 15 percent of top corporate executives. — Currently, women hold approximately 17 percent of the seats in the U.S. Congress, about 23 percent of elected state offices and only six governorships out of 50. — Today, the majority of women are employed, and approximately 77 percent of women with children work outside the home. — In families where both partners work, women continue to assume the majority of household and child care tasks. — According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network’s database, 14 percent of American women are raped every year. — Women represent approximately 85 percent of the victims of domestic violence, with male partners being the primary abusers. — The vast majority of those with eating disorders are women, with the highest rate of onset between the ages of 16 and 21. More than 90 percent of college women control their weight with diet, and 25 percent engage in binging and purging, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.

1920, the effort finally succeeded with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1923, Alice Paul introduced the Equal Rights Amendment. Though its best-known leaders were white, black women were also active in the First Wave. The ex-slave Sojourner Truth traveled widely to speak out on behalf of women’s and slaves’ rights. Poet and lecturer Ellen Watkins Harpur addressed black women’s rights at women’s rights conventions. Mary Ann Shadd Cary argued that black women were granted the right to vote under the 14th Amendment and successfully registered to vote in 1871.

Second Wave The 1960s were characterized by massive social upheavals and major social movements for civil rights, gay rights and women’s liberation. The catalyst for the Women’s Liberation Movement was the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique in 1963. Friedan, speaking primarily for white, middle-class women, argued in favor of more and equal opportunity for women in education and the workplace. Staying at home, she asserted, wasted women’s potential. Shortly after, the report of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (commissioned by President John F. Kennedy) was published. The report highlighted the widespread discrimination against women and lack of opportunity and added impetus to the emerging Women’s Liberation Movement. Though the Women’s Liberation movement has come to be identified with the fight for gender equity in education and work, Second Wave feminists also called for action on violence against women, reproductive rights, pornography and the sexual objectification and devaluation of women. Their efforts produced ground-breaking legal changes such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title IX [1972], and Roe v. Wade [1973]. This era is also known for the 1968 Miss America Pageant protest in Atlantic City, where feminists planned to burn “instruments of female torture,” aka bras, mops, girdles, pots and pans, and Playboy magazines. Items were thrown into a trash can, but contrary to popular belief, no fires were actually lit. Though the most visible activists of the Second Wave were white, middle-class women, the movement was, in fact, more complex than that. The fight for women’s rights had its roots in the larger-scale social dissent of the 1960s and 1970s, and feminists worked alongside civil and gay rights activists to achieve social justice on many levels. Black women who were active in the civil rights cause became disillusioned by the implicit sexism of the black liberation organizations. Their discontent served as an impetus to feminist activism on their part, but their goals were not wholly compatible with those of the mainstream movement. While white women were concerned with breaking through the glass ceiling, black women lived a different experience in which they had no choice but to work and to devise creative family care solutions. From their perspective, gender was only one type of marginalization directed toward them as

women. Truly effective feminism, they argued, had to take account of the ways multiple and intersecting oppressions affected women’s lives. Third Wave By the 1980s, the daughters of the Second Wavers were coming of age. Although these younger women grew up with relatively equal opportunity in education, the workplace and reproductive freedom, they understood that full equality had not been achieved. Rebecca Walker, daughter of the poet Alice Walker, reacting to the backlash against women and feminism that was rampant in the ’80s, wrote in 1992, “I am not a postfeminism feminist. I am the Third Wave.” Walker’s manifesta became a rallying point for Third Wave feminism. Responding in part to the challenges posed by women of color, this wave adopted the view that women’s lives were not defined solely by gender but by race and class, as well. Championing diversity was a hallmark of their agenda. On the grounds of diversity, they rejected elements of the cultural critiques of the Second Wave. They embraced pop culture, girliness and sexual positivity, and reclaimed words like slut. They challenged the Second Wave’s negative views of pornography and sex work as utterly negative. For this generation, feminism was personal, multifaceted, individualized and flexible. Fourth Wave Is there a Fourth Wave? Well-known Third Wave activist and writer Jennifer Baumgardner suggests there is. She identifies Fourth Wave feminists as women now in their 20s and 30s who are taking the agenda of the Third Wave to another level through technology and social networking. More comfortable with gender diversity and influenced by the openness fostered by social networking, they seek to meet the specific needs of modern women. Feminism Today Feminism today is a reflection of the complexity of modern society. It is personal, independent and flexible. Technology and social networking are fundamental to its methods. Feminists recognize that gender intersects with a myriad of other social and cultural factors. As opposed to a coherent movement with specified goals, contemporary feminism is characterized by diversity in its adherents and a multiplicity of coalitions and activist organizations that address the full spectrum of women’s lives in the 21st century.

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The WRITE frame of mind What handwriting reveals about your personality BY KARI BARNETT

On the yellowed pages of a small, black, leather-bound notebook with the word “Record” stamped in silver on the cover are the penciled-in musings of a young woman. She uses seven lines on the top of page 10: “I can and will help myself and work on things analytically no matter how painful — if I forget things (the unconscious wants to forget — I will only try to remember) Discipline — Concentration.” The words slant slightly to the right, and there are wide-open spaces between each utterance. Some words start off with a heavy hand, while others fade into light at the end. On page 11, just two lines at the top are used: “my body is my body every part of it.” The t’s are sensibly crossed in the middle, and the i’s are dotted directly above their stems. The tops of the m’s are rounded, and there are no loops on the y’s. A graphoanalyst, a person who studies handwriting to analyze character and personality traits, would most likely say the author of this notebook entry has trouble relating to others as evidenced by the large

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gap between words. They also may say this is a caring person who tends to follow their heart because of their right-slanting sentences. And what about only using the tops of the pages? Well, that’s the area of goals and ambitions, so it would seem that the author is consumed only by what she plans to accomplish. Do these personality traits sound like those of a certain blonde bombshell who gave us The Seven Year Itch and told the world that Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Yes, the analysis you’ve just read is one of Marilyn Monroe’s notebook entries from about 1955 when she worked with acting coach Lee Strasberg. But graphology is not only a fun hobby for those looking for a window into the inner workings of their favorite celebrity — or their significant other — it also has practical uses, from hiring a new employee to battling a court case. Minding Their P’s and Q’s Locally, the mother-daughter team of Anne Bedinger and Betsy Patterson are graphoanalysis gurus, uncovering people’s personalities through their handwriting for more than two decades. Bedinger recently taught a class on the subject at the Delray Beach Public Library’s Lifelong Learning Community Institute. All the attendees were women — something that didn’t surprise Bedinger. “Women just seem to be more interested in learning about personality,” she said. A graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor’s in finance and a minor in English, Bedinger later became a master certified graphoanalyst through the International Graphoanalyst Society. She provides handwriting analysis through her website, DiscoverHandwritingSecrets.com, offering services such as compatibility reports for team building, personnel hiring decisions and promotions of current employees. She said graphoanalysis is an ideal tool

because it provides an unbiased personality profile without regard to race, gender, religion or age. “It’s used as a supplement to other testing for the hiring process,” said Bedinger, a Delray Beach resident who’s also vice president, investments for Raymond James & Associates in Boca Raton. “In America, 5,000 corporations use handwriting analysis.” A Brief History of Graphology For hundreds of years, Chinese scholars have been using handwriting to determine a person’s character, according to the Handwriting Research Corporation. Camillo Baldi, an Italian doctor of medicine and philosophy, published the first known book on the subject in 1622. But it wasn’t until the 1870s that Frenchman Jean Michon coined the term graphology. Since that time, thousands of works have been published on the subject in medical, educational and psychological journals, the Handwriting Research Corporation reports. The Write Stuff A person’s handwriting is as unique to them as their fingerprints. No matter the way in which a person gets it done — using their hands, feet or teeth — much can be revealed about their character by the shapes and patterns of their writing, graphoanalysts claim. “It’s essentially brain writing; it all has to do with the nerves,” Bedinger said. “As our personality changes, our handwriting changes, but it’s not overnight.” One of the most important characteristics graphoanalysts look at is the slant of a person’s sentences. “And it doesn’t have anything to do with what hand you use,” Bedinger said. Leaning to the left means the person is introspective, centered means they’re objective, and leaning to the right signifies an empathetic and possibly impulsive person. For example, Bedinger said she often sees

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divorcees’ writings slant to the left because they are in the “taking care of me” phase in their lives. They also take into account the amount of pressure the person puts on the page. Do you have dark, heavy handwriting? Well, you’re someone who “absorbs emotions like a sponge and holds grudges,” Bedinger said. A “light” writer probably has an easier time releasing his or her emotions. And size matters, at least in the world of handwriting analysis. Small writing tends to mean the person is able to concentrate and pays attention to details. Next time you’re choosing an accountant, you’d be wise to pick one who writes small, Bedinger suggested. Cross the T’s, Dot the I’s So many different personality characteristics are revealed in the way a person crosses their “T” bars. T’s with the bar crossed low on the stem is often seen in young girls who are still setting goals for themselves, Bedinger said.

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The Writing’s on the Wall It takes a melting pot of personalities to make the world go ‘round, and Bedinger stresses that it’s not about whether someone’s writing is good or bad. “We need everybody’s traits and then as a whole it makes for a good team,” she said. “We need to understand and appreciate the different. Everyone has roles they are good at. We’re not trying to change someone.” While the use of graphoanalysis is important to many businesses, medical and legal professionals, and even the police, it’s perhaps the personal use of the skill that hits home with many people, including Bedinger and her mother. “Handwriting analysis helped us to achieve our loving, unconditional relationship we share today,” she said.

Penmanship Perils: Cursive vs. Print In the era of the Internet, it seems like only a matter of time before people’s penmanship takes a turn for the worse. We’re typing and texting, not looping and swirling. It’s enough to make that grade-school writing instructor of yours cringe in disgust. Couple that with the fact that many schools are erasing cursive classes from the curriculum, and we’re facing a handwriting apocalypse. Bedinger said studies have been done using high school yearbooks from the 1950s to the 2000s to back up the theory that cursive is on its way out. Print reigns supreme these days, the studies claim. Who cares, right? Well, it shows a shift in connectivity in our society, she said. Basically, we’re really disconnected, even though we always seem to be connected through phones or computers.

Long gone are days when a family sits down at the dinner table to connect. And it seems our writing mirrors that shift. On a side note: Ladies, be wary of a man who writes in all capital letters. He’s may be someone who craves control. For example, convicted murderer Scott Peterson wrote in all caps. Printscript, a blend of cursive and print writing, is an indication of above-average intelligence. Are there breaks in between your letters? Then you can label yourself as being intuitive or having a sixth sense, so to speak.

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Lower case t’s crossed high on the stem, such as those present in former U.S. senator and astronaut John Glenn’s writing, reveal a visionary or a daydreamer. Many self-made millionaires cross their t’s in a loop, showing a type of persistence to find their way around obstacles to achieve what they want to do, she said. And what about teenage girls who dot their i’s with hearts, bubbles or smiley faces? “It shows they want to be different — that they’re artistic and creative, Bedinger said.

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Nelly Rubio, who was named the 2012 Latina Pioneer of the Year by Hispanic Women of Distinction, has always seen the importance of serving the community, and throughout her life, she has volunteered with various organizations at all levels. “I have wanted to be involved in the general community as a Hispanic,” she said. “When we serve all in the community, the better the community is for all of us, no matter our background.” A native of Cuba, Rubio immigrated to Miami with her family in 1962. “We left everything when we came over,”

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Many women pride themselves in living a basic healthy lifestyle by eating properly and pursuing a fitness regimen. Parkland resident Trish Mazzeo has gone high octane by shaping her body into an enviable physique shimmering with finely sculpted muscles. It is this impressive appearance that has earned Mazzeo, 49, various awards as well as the admiration of trainers, family members and friends who have watched her progress. “It’s a passion I have and something I love doing. It’s also gratifying when I go to the gym and women my age stop me to ask, ‘How do you do it?’” Mazzeo said. “In the long run, though, it’s all about staying healthy and keeping myself in the best shape possible.” As a sophomore at Virginia Tech, Mazzeo found herself studying numerous fitness magazines.

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BRINGING BACK THAT LOVING FEELING Wendy Wolf (whose name has been changed to respect her privacy), 62, of Boca Raton, a slim, attractive blonde with green eyes and the ability to still turn heads, is vivacious, pretty and popular. Attracting men is never a problem. Men find her pretty, sexually desirable and vie for her attention. Married three times, the first at 19, Wolf, the mother of two grown children and the grandmother of one, is now single and liking it. Since the advent of Facebook, past paramours and former husbands have come a’ courting. Although happy to see them and socialize, Wolf has no desire to enter into a sexual relationship, despite their persistent attempts to woo and bed her. “At 62, my libido has petered out. I have no interest in sex, and the thought of it, especially with an overweight, middle-aged man, has no appeal. If he was a hot 20-something with a taut six-pack, I might consider it,” Wolf half-jokes. Wolf is not alone. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder IV, there are four official categories of female sexual disorder: hypoactive sexual desire disorder, or decreased sex drive; arousal disorder; female orgasmic disorder; and genital pain (dyspareunia and vaginismus). HSDD, first identified in the 1970s, is a common disorder affecting 43 percent of women (or 40 million women) and 31 percent of men between the ages of 19 and 59, according to the 1999 National Health and Social Life Survey, a survey of sexual functioning among men and women in the U.S. A hallmark of this disorder is an ongoing and long-term loss of desire to the point it interferes in relationships and causes stress or interpersonal difficulties. Certain medications, including SSRI antidepressants, birth control pills and anti-hypertensives, may suppress sex drive. If a woman is unconcerned about her loss of libido, it is not classified as problematic.

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“For a sexual concern to be considered a medical problem, it must be associated with distress, so it’s important to assess this in both research studies and patient care,” said Dr. Jan Shifren, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in a study she coauthored in the November 2008 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The study, known as the PRESIDE Study, found that of the 40 million women affected by the disorder, only 12 percent admitted to problems that caused distress. Women ages 45 to 64 were most likely to report a distressing sexual problem (14.8 percent), followed by those ages 18 to 44 (10.8 percent) and those older than 64 (8.9 percent). James E. Clark, OB/GYN and medical director of the Central Florida Female Sexual Dysfunction Clinic, said women’s sexual dysfunction is more complicated than men’s. While men typically suffer from mechanical issues, they can take medications that increase blood flow to the area (think Viagra, Cialis, Levitra). Women’s sexuality is more involved. “Increasing blood flow to the clitoris is not the answer for women,” said Maureen Whelihan, OB/GYN and sexual health expert at the Comprehensive Women’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach. “Women’s No. 1 sexual complaint is low desire. And in women, there are many environmental factors influencing our desire. Desire starts in the brain. We need to focus research on how to stimulate the sexual centers of desire in the female brain.”

Said Clark, “There is a difference between pre- and post-menopausal women. In premenopausal women, dysfunction may be rooted in the brain or associated with family and psycho-social dynamics; is she stressed at home, dealing with kids or taking antidepressants. In postmenopausal women, the reality may be tied to loss of hormones, which decrease as both women and men age.” Whelihan, who writes an online healthy sex column for a Palm Beach Post blog, is an advocate of hormone therapy for “those who need it.” She said low sexual desire in women has many factors, taking into consideration physical changes, relationship status and social, psychological and cultural mores. “It’s much easier to treat post-menopausal women, as the reason is usually hormonerelated,” she said. “In women younger than 29, we look at mood disorders or stressors at home. I have been known to take out my prescription pad and write a prescription for official R&R time for the patient. It’s not uncommon for women to go through periods of low sexual desire, depending on environmental circumstances. Sexual desire ebbs and flows.” The most important thing for women to know is that it’s OK to talk to their doctor about sexual complaints, and if the doctor is not receptive or is uncomfortable, the woman should find a sexual health expert. Resources for finding sexual health physicians include the professional society, the

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In 1997, the Outstanding Mother Award from the Healthy Mothers-Healthy Babies Coalition of Broward County went to a woman with no children of her own. But she has done more than enough for distressed kids and young adults in South Florida to qualify her for the role. The Honorable Melanie G. May, 60, is chief judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Palm Beach County, a Florida

native and longtime board member of the Youth Automotive Training Center in Deerfield Beach. Before joining the appeals court in January 2002, she spent 11 years as a judge on the 17th Judicial Circuit in the juvenile delinquency division, where she heard about the Youth Automotive Training Center, a tuition-free, nine-month training program that helps disadvantaged youths get back on track by learning about automobiles. “The one thing that is different as opposed to other programs is this is a supportive community for those who attend here,” said May, who has been a board member since 1994. “In this program, they address kids who didn’t get it right the first couple of times. This is a last chance for some of them to get on the right track and have a future,

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May’s primary role at YATC is to organize volunteers for the Jim Moran YATC South Florida Golf Tournament in Plantation. Since she is a sitting judge, she’s unable to be more involved, but during her years as a judge in the juvenile system, she has recommended many kids to the program and seen most of them successfully complete it. Growing up in Fort Lauderdale and graduating from Florida Atlantic University in 1973, May didn’t know she wanted to be a judge until her second year of law school at Nova Southeastern University. She had become interested in law at FAU and decided to go back to school after teaching business at Saint Thomas Aquinas High School for a few years. “I didn’t really know I was going to be a lawyer,” May said. “I just liked the subject matter. But I had to figure out what I was going to do. Then I appeared in front of a panel of judges from the Fourth District Court of Appeal, and I thought, ‘I want to be one of them.’ Everything I did after that was to prepare myself for that job.” After getting her degree in 1981, May spent nine years working for a private practice in Fort Lauderdale. Then in 1991 she

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Perfume is really a very lyrical luxury. When described in scientific terms, there are top notes and bottom notes, and the top notes can form chords in the fragrance. But why is it the same fragrance smells different on each person? The staff at Queen B has pondered this since we were little bees on the school bus spritzing Jean Nate on ourselves. Dr. Jennifer Logan, assistant professor of chemistry at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, teaches a course on perfume chemistry with a colleague in the college’s French department and has organ-

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There’s a certain finesse one has to exude when taking a date out for a romantic night. The atmosphere has to warm and not intimidating. The food has to be flavorful without being overly filling, and the libations have to be lovely. Falling in love at the dinner table can get tricky, but at Meat Market Miami on Lincoln Road, romance never tasted so good. Queen B caught up with the talented Sean Brasel, executive chef/co-owner of Meat Market, and asked him to share his recommendations on the ultimate menu for a truly magical dinner date.

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Hours: Monday - Thursday 10am to 5pm • Friday 10am to 6pm Saturday 10am to 4pm • Sunday Closed

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