A:	Our membership is racially, culturally and economically diverse, and includes women fifty and over who are straight, lesbian, bi or transgendered. Most of our current members are college-educated women, many of whom hold advanced degrees.

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As a matter of principle, we do not employ advertising of any kind, believing that to do so violates the spirit of what we’re trying to create here and burdens our members with intrusive distractions. That having been said, we strive to strike a balance between the need to pay our bills and our commitment to remain within easy financial reach of all our members.

A:	Simply send us an email stating that you wish to cancel. Please include the name and email address that you opened your membership under. You’ll receive email confirmation from us that your membership has been terminated and your credit card will not be billed again.

A:	New fiction, blog and newsletter content are posted each and every month.

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Whenever you want to respond to a blog entry, just click on the “comment” button located at the bottom of the blog page. A window will open that asks for your name (a first name or nickname will do, and your email address. If you’re responding from a private email address and not from another website, disregard the line that says http). Then just type your comment in the field provided and hit “submit.” That’s it. As is customary, for each blog entry you’ll be able to read all comments and respond to each of those, whenever you like. A numeral indicating the total number of comments will appear next to the “comment” button at the bottom of this page. You can read all of them by clicking on the “comment” button whenever you like.

A:	Simply choose a chat nickname a.k.a, a chat nick, sign on and type your comments into the bar at the bottom of the screen. Hit “enter” and a white screen will appear that displays your comment and the ongoing discussion. Chat is in real time, so comments don’t remain once you sign off.

A:	Yes. Regardless of when you join, you will always have access to all previously published material, so long as your membership remains current.

A:	First I do, and then the rest of our editorial staff. Blog comments are always visible to the entire membership community.

A:	That’s fine, so long as you’re printing our content for your own private use. The only exception here is for academics who are granted limited public use of our material in pedagogical contexts and are governed by the Fair Use clause of Copyright Law.

A:	Yes. All content, excluding images, is the property of The Wiser Lioness and constitutes exclusive, original copyrighted content.

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Newsletter content is distilled from a wide variety of notable sources and experts in many fields, including gynecology, menopause studies, nutrition, feminist activist groups and so on. Since our goal is to provide high quality information that enhances the sexual lives of our readers, we take great care to ensure that timely, provocative and useful snippets of cutting-edge information make their way into our newsletter each month.

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Whenever this question arises, we try hard to resist responding with some permutation of the old I “know it when I see it” line, and other equally flaccid responses suggesting that pornography, like beauty, is “in the eye of the beholder.” Truth be told, whether our content is pornographic or not, or whether that even matters or not, constitute interesting discussions to have. And indeed, we love to have them. But such debates are predicated upon defining what the word “pornographic” means; fortunately, we have the ineluctable, bedrock wisdom of the government to rely upon here. We refer to The Miller Test, a.k.a. The Three Pronged Obscenity Test, a product of Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15(1973), which gave rise to the US Supreme Court’s 1996 Communications Decency Act. Briefly stated, The Miller Test requires that material is considered obscene, and thus, outside the protection of the First Amendment if it meets certain criteria, one of which is that it “lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.” Since our material consistently holds intrinsic value in each of these areas, our content cannot be considered pornographic under this definition. Still, we need to be crystal clear. From a perspective that privileges mature female sexuality, do we push against the boundaries of what some might consider normative sexual experience and fantasy? No doubt! Does our erotic content employ explicit sexual vernacular? Absolutely! Do we interrogate the intersections between race, culture, and sex? You bet! However, we do not publish any material that valorizes the debasement of, or violence towards, women. Nor do we publish any material that depicts sexual activity with minors of either sex. And in a patriarchal world that continues to objectify women and children as a way to maintain the status quo relative to power, privilege and control, we view both the production and dissemination of such material as pernicious and indefensible.

A:	While we opt not to include a formal set of site links, every issue of our monthly newsletter, The Lioness Gazette, includes valuable links to the organizations, articles, research and initiatives that are cited in the text.

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Since we’re committed to providing a truly interactive experience for our members that consistently resonates with their needs, our request for feedback is ongoing. For example, since the site is built around our library of erotic literature, we encourage members to let us know what stories, plotlines and characters they’ve responded to the most. We also want to know about the other features we offer, such as whether or not The Lioness Gazette has been providing newsletter content that’s useful, and suggestions for making the Chat and Blog features more provocative, interactive and rewarding. Members can give us their input in a variety of ways, including blog comments, in chat discussions, via the comment form on the site’s Contact Us page or by phone. Our number’s listed on the Contact Us page as well.

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No problem. While membership is limited to women who are at least fifty years of age, members who’d like to use any of our proprietary, copyrighted material in their college level classes are welcome to do so, as long as they agree to abide by the Fair Use clause of the Copyright Law. Briefly, it states that limited use for educational purposes only is lawful, so long such use does not include sale of the material. We also ask that our material appear only with the copyright notice in its entirety clearly and legibly attached.