Sex Advice With An Edge
— The nuanced world of BDSM By Lucy Copp Carol always knew something was “off” for her during sex. “At one point I even thought I might have been asexual because I just wasn’t getting what other people would talk about all the time,” she told Larry Mantle on AirTalk, LAist 89.3’s daily news program. …
— And How Do You Actually Cure It The prescription calls for watching “The Notebook.” On repeat. BY Rachel Varina Picture this: It’s 3 a.m., and instead of blissfully snoozing beneath your sleep mask (…or adding a bunch of viral TikTok finds to your cart), you’re deep in the trenches of your feelings, wrestling with …
— How these terms changed and why states now want to define them By Grace Abels This year, 17 state legislatures sought to narrowly define “sex” or “gender” in state law as based solely on biological characteristics. In Utah, one became law. Although they’re sometimes used synonymously, “sex” and “gender” have different meanings to medical …
— In defense of non-monogamy. By Jenny Block “Monogamy Is Good, And It’s Here To Stay.“ I was leery about this 2008 piece the minute I saw the title. But as soon as I read it and saw the word “fad” used to describe the kind of relationship that I have been deliriously happy in …
By Judith Butler In the United States, gender has been considered a relatively ordinary term. We are asked to check a box on a form, and most of us do so without giving it too much thought. But some of us don’t like checking the box and think there should be either many more boxes …
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By Molly Longman On Dec. 2, 2015, Erin Burnett was two days out from her wedding and existing in the buzzy state of bliss that’s reserved for people who are very much in love. That morning, as she was happily daydreaming in the shower, she noticed something was different about her left nipple. She took …
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— A talk with poly fairy grandmother Dossie Easton She co-wrote the book on living and loving openly. Here, she speaks to us about her decades of experience. By Caitlin Donohue Twenty-something me would have been verklempt: I was set to interview Dossie Easton, one of the co-authors of The Ethical Slut. The venerable sex …
— A biological and anthropological researcher explains how humans’ diverse ways of mating might have evolved. By Rui Diogo Marrying more than one person constitutes a crime across most of the Americas and Europe. But in countries including Mali, Gambia, and Nigeria, more than a quarter of the population lives in polygamous households. Survey the …
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— Our queer sea has much to teach us The first documented sex between two male humpback whales is just the latest challenge to our presumptions about sexuality By Philip Hoare Whales are extraordinarily sensuous creatures. Those blubbery bodies are highly sensitive, and sensitised. At social meetings, pods of sperm, humpback and right whales will …
— What Are the Mental Health Consequences? ‘Policymakers should be aware of the harms that bills targeting LGBTQ+ youth have on the well-being of students and strongly argue for their right to disclose their identities on their own terms’ By Danielle Faipler In 2023, lawmakers across the U.S. introduced a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills. …
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— Researchers once faced death threats for asking women what gives them pleasure. Now they’re helping individuals and couples figure it out themselves. By Meghan McDonough [CLIP: Woman speaks on OMGYES: “This is, like, you know, my vagina, going up and down and kind of brushing up against it, kind of like a paintbrush.”] [CLIP: …
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— It’s not the same as an open relationship. By Aryelle Siclait and Lydia Wang The beautiful thing about non-monogamy is that it can take on many, varied forms: A non-monogamous dynamic can look like one polyamorous person having multiple romantic and sexual partners, or several individuals all in a non-hierarchical relationship together. One term …
Continue reading “Here’s how to tell if a throuple might be right for you”
— How to keep the love alive when you fight Research has found that couples who argue (and get over it) are more likely to stay together than those who avoid conflict. But how can you argue safely? By Emine Saner It wasn’t without a little smugness that I used to tell friends that my …
— Not quite, according to practitioners, who want people to understand that the lifestyle is more than a dressed-up “friends with benefits.” By Gina Cherelus After James Nicholson went through a breakup in October, he realized that he was at a point in his life when he wanted to focus more on himself than on …
— Why do some couples keep the home fires burning while for others the embers grow dim? Here’s what some romantic partners are doing right By Nicole Pajer You know who they are. That couple down the block who’ve been together for 25 years and still canoodle like newlyweds. They seem to have the intimacy …
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