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How Women Are Reigniting Desire By Malaka Gharib How can more women allow themselves to experience sexual pleasure? That’s one of the central questions in The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution, a book published this month by public health researcher and journalist Katherine Rowland. Rowland explores why American women aren’t happy …
By Jessica Morgan We all know that sex is good for you. The positive health benefits have been well documented over the years, with plenty of studies suggesting that frequent sex could do wonders for your mental and physical wellbeing. And last week, a new study added to the long list. Researchers at University College …
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know By Dusan Goljic, Pharm.D. After a marijuana experience, lighting an old-fashioned cigarette after sex seems slightly outdated. As a matter of fact, when discussing cannabis, you’ll probably want to light it before you engage in sexual activity. Excited yet? Despite some of us seeming pretty calm, we can still …
New Approaches, New Products, And A New Paradigm By WeedMaps News‘ Mary Jane Gibson Cannabis is used for an incredible array of health issues: it can alleviate anxiety, help with sleep, increase appetite, and treat chronic pain. It’s also a safer alternative to alcohol. And in the modern legal marketplace, many women are incorporating cannabis into their wellness routines as …
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‘It’s About Helping People Understand Themselves’ By Aurora Snow Lora DiCarlo won the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Robotics Innovation Award for Osé, the company’s premiere product—“a robotic massager for hands-free blended orgasms.” A few months later, CES parent company Consumer Technology Association took the award back, calling it a mistake due to the nature …
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What’s best for the bedroom may come from the kitchen. Food, like sex, is a sensory experience, so it’s no surprise that the two are intimately intertwined. To that end, here’s a list of some of the best—and some of the worst—foods to eat before getting busy. By John Murphy BEST Watermelon Watermelon naturally contains …
John Waters once said, “If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!” By Vic Parsons So, treat the queer, queer-adjacent or curious bookworm in your life to one of these books by trans, including non-binary, authors. Juno Roche – Trans Power Juno’s last book, Queer Sex, was a landmark …
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For 45 years, Deborah Roffman has let students’ curiosities guide her lessons on sexuality and relationships. About 25 years ago, a public school in the Baltimore suburbs invited Deborah Roffman to teach a class on puberty to fifth graders. Roffman, who was known as the “Sex Lady” at the private Park School of Baltimore, where …
By Carolyn Crist Almost 1 in 18 women and 1 in 40 men have experienced sexual harassment in and related to the workplace, according to a U.S. study. That represents almost 7 million women and 3 million men who have reported assault, unwanted sexual contact or verbal harassment by a boss, supervisor, coworker, customer or …
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by Cassandra Corrado I’m officially dubbing 2020 the year of the vibrator. They’re just having a bit of a moment, you know? I’m not talking about the created-from-jelly-latex, transparent pink, rabbit vibrators that many of us still think of when you read the word “vibrator.” Nope — I’m talking about way more than just those. …
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Get some sleep! Sleep is important for overall health and well-being. It is also necessary for a healthy sex life. Read on to know more. Today’s hectic lifestyle is not at all conducive to overall well-being of a person. It leaves you feeling tired and tense all the time. You are in a state of …
By Jadie Troy-Pryde Surprised? What are we looking for when it comes to all things love and lust? Are we a nation in need of sweethearts or brief encounters? While we’re all very aware that there’s a never-ending list of dating trends – ahem, cushioning, zombieing and sneating – apparently it’s a common theme when …
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Is America ready? By Anna North It’s the second meeting of the Informed and In Charge program at Western High School, and today’s activity is called the “sexuality wall.” The gist is pretty straightforward: At one end of the classroom is a big sheet of paper with “Sexuality?” written in blue marker. “Write down as …
Women who suffer from the chronic-pain condition vulvodynia often feel isolated from their partners. But a better medical understanding is helping. By Ashley Fetters In her 18 years as a sex therapist in Orange County, California, Stephanie Buehler has come to recognize a certain tense, fraught dynamic in couples when a female partner has vulvodynia. …
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—Up to and Including Intercourse By Shannon Gormley Touch, erotic or not, can communicate painful memories, insecurities and vulnerabilities that are hard to verbalize. One of the most revelatory moments of Carlene Ostedgaard’s career was the time she got an orgasm from having her shoulder touched. It happened a few years ago, when Ostedgaard, 35, …
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