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4 Steps To Bring Up An Issue In Your Relationship Without Starting A Fight

By Rachel Wright, LMFT As a therapist that specializes in relationships, one of the most common things clients ask me about is how to start and have conversations with people in their lives. Whether it’s their partners, bosses, friends, parents, or anyone else, it can feel daunting to have a conversation about something important and …

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3 Things to Do When the Sex Was Mind-Blowingly…Bad

It doesn’t mean it can’t get so much better. By Cathryne Keller Apologies to Bridgerton, but first-time sex isn’t always the mind-blowing, corset-busting stuff of historical romance novels. In real life, hooking up with a new partner—even one you’re super into—can be awkward, uncomfortable, or otherwise…not good. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it can’t get …

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How to Have Good (and Safe!) Sex in College

From prioritizing pleasure to planning ahead. By Cathryne Keller Sexual freedom and exploration can be one of the most exciting parts of the transition to college life: Living on campus can put you in a hyper-horny environment in which the things you’ve only wondered or fantasized about are now possibilities to explore. As exhilarating as …

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6 Questions to Ask Yourself If You’re Considering an Open Relationship

A therapist explains how to know if ethical nonmonogamy is right for you. By Marie Southard Ospina Many of us grow up alongside narratives of a “happily ever after” one-soulmate-kind-of love, but this cultural ideal is far from a universal reality—or even a universal desire. Just like someone might have several friends who meet various …

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After Roe, teens are teaching themselves sex ed, because the adults won’t

By Hannah Natanson Sweating in the sun, two dozen teenagers spread themselves across picnic blankets in a grassy park and prepared to discuss the facts of life they never learned in school. Behind them on a folding table, bouquets of pamphlets offered information teachers at school would never share — on the difference between medical …

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Early sexual experiences could lead to healthier sex later in life

In her research, Diana Peragine encountered study after study that suggested an early sexual debut poses a risk to sexual health and sets the stage for a long list of negative outcomes, from unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections to sexual exploitation and abuse. “Research has traditionally cast first sexual intercourse as a young person’s …

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Everything you need to know about subspace and subdrop in BDSM

By Ella Glover Kinky sex is becoming more mainstream by the year, with BDSM – which stands for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission and sadism and masochism – is one of the more popular options.  Generally, BDSM involves two major roles: the dominant and the submissive, the latter of which is the topic of …

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Pride 2022

Happy Gay Pride Month! It’s time, once again, to post my annual pride posting. In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a most remarkable change in societal attitudes toward those of us on the sexual fringe. One only needs to go back 50 years in time. I was 17 years old then and I knew I was …

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