Sex Advice With An Edge
By Simone Paget [A]ccording to a new series of studies from The University College of London, it appears that being single maybe bad for your health – well, sort of. The researchers did 14 studies on the effect of relationships on the development of dementia. They studied more than 800,000 people over the age of …
None of that ‘filmed for the male gaze’ crap. By Paisley Gilmour [I]f you’ve ever watched even one ‘lesbian’ adult film on a mainstream porn site, you’ll know the content isn’t exactly… representative of any real life lesbian women. That crap pretty much just exists to turn on horny straight guys. So if you’re looking …
Name: MissK Gender: Age: 43 Location: Everett My longtime male sub wants Me to try something on him that he saw on a web site. I’m not sure at all that it would be safe for him. It’s infusing saline into his scrotum, until they are very heavy. Any advice? [O]MG, there are perverts in …
Spanking is fun and sexy, but you’re still hitting someone. Here’s how to do it right. By Sophie Saint Thomas [S]panking must have a terrific PR person. Though frowned upon as a punishment for children, spanking is currently a super-popular, super-sexy method of “punishment” between two consenting adults. The spanking spectrum covers a lot of …
A team of millennial entrepreneurs have pulled together a ‘BuzzFeed of sex ed’. About time too. By Lucy Whitehouse Fumble describes itself as a ‘handy guide to sex’ (pun intended). It offers curious teens social content like blogs, videos, games, galleries and quizzes. The team behind Fumble say it responds to the lack of engaging digital …
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Why isn’t that on the curriculum? by Lucia O’sullivan [D]amn—we forgot to teach our kids how to have fun sex. Most news covers the sex lives of young people in terms of hookups, raunch culture, booty calls and friends with benefits. You might think that young people have it all figured out, equating sex with …
All your NSFW questions answered If you want to get kinky, sex isn’t even necessary. [L]ooking to leave your vanilla sex life behind and break into the exciting world of kink? You’ve probably heard the term thrown around on the internet or mentioned mysteriously on popular TV shows. But what does kink mean? What does …
There’s a misconception that bi people are just going through a phase — but what if our doctors believe it too? By Kate Sloan “Are you sexually active?” I’d been dreading this question since losing my virginity to a female friend a few weeks earlier, not long after my 16th birthday. Somehow, the harsh fluorescent …
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By Rose Wilby [W]hen I embarked on the seven-year journey that would result in a trilogy of comedy shows and my first book, I had no idea what a huge part sexual orientation would play. Yes, I’m a lesbian and that has influenced much of how I’ve socialised and dated for the 20 years or …
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By Nikki Goldstein [I]F A man is sexual with another man, is he gay? You can kiss a girl and like it and be straight, but man on man sex is quickly put in the category of homosexuality. It’s a subject that has always fascinated me because I have many gay friends who bed these …
By Gareth Rubin [F]or most adults, sex is an activity that can bring joy, frustration, contentment or disappointment – the full range of human responses. But for a few people, the very thought of sexual contact with another human being causes such anxiety that they can never get close to the act. For them, psychosexual therapy …
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By Cory Stieg [E]arly on in relationships, it can feel like you have to be careful and strategic about what information to divulge to your partner and when. This is particularly true when it comes to sexual health, because although your partner doesn’t need to know about every time you’ve had bacterial vaginosis in your …
Polyamory isn’t monogamy and it isn’t swinging, it’s being open to having loving relationships with different people of different sexes at the same time, and in that way learning to love yourself, too By Elf Lyons [I] have never enjoyed typical monogamy. It makes me think of dowries and possessive prairie voles who mate for …
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By Abigail Jones [S]o you’ve survived cancer. You’ve endured brutal treatments that caused hair loss, weight gain, nausea, or so much pain you could barely move. Perhaps your body looks different, too—maybe you had a double mastectomy with reconstruction, or an orchiectomy to remove one of your testicles. Now you’re turning your attention back to …
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How to have hot sex, according to science By Scott Barry Kaufman [O]ur culture is obsessed with sex. Everywhere you look is another article on how to have hot sex, harder erections, mind-bending orgasms, and ejaculations that go on for days. What people seldom realize, though– and which the latest science backs up– is that this is exactly the problem. …
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