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You’re been reading her sage-like advice for years in the dead-tree edition. Now hear Advice Goddess Amy Alkon dish on life and love via the interwebs with her weekly on-line radio show. This week’s episode:  Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Gad Saad on sex, “sensitive men,” and why you have to buy her an engagement ring and she doesn’t have to buy you an engagement boat.

This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2012.

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The Goddess Speaks: Alkon on Love, Life and Sex

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 5, 2012

<h1>The Goddess Speaks: Alkon on Love, Life and Sex</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 5, 2012</p> <p>You're been reading her sage-like advice for years in the dead-tree edition. Now hear Advice Goddess Amy Alkon dish on life and love via the interwebs with her weekly on-line radio show. This week's <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2012/01/31/advice-goddess-radio-amy-alkon" target="_blank">episode</a>:&nbsp; Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Gad Saad on sex, &ldquo;sensitive men,&rdquo; and why you have to buy her an engagement ring and she doesn&rsquo;t have to buy you an engagement boat.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> <object></object> </p> <div>Listen to <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com">internet radio</a> with <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon">amyalkon</a> on Blog Talk Radio</div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container aligncenter"> <object></object> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/the-goddess-speaks-alkon-on-love-life-and-sex-2139997/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=18025&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/the-goddess-speaks-alkon-on-love-life-and-sex-2139997/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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