Sex Advice With An Edge
By Morgan Mandriota Monogamy is our society’s default relationship model. Once you find the one, you get engaged. Then you get married. And voilà! You’re with one person for the rest of your life. This might be a comforting happily ever after for some. For others, it can sound and feel like a trap. Good …
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By Natalie Arroyo Camacho A healthy sex life is linked to a number of great benefits: a longer lifespan, improved heart health, and decreased stress, to name a few. That said, at one point or another, it’s likely you’ve simply been too tired to have it. But, having sex when you’re tired still stands to …
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by Angelica Bottaro Chemotherapy and sex is a subject that many people may wonder about when they’re undergoing treatment, but oncologists rarely discuss sexuality and physical intimacy during chemotherapy with their patients.1 Since it’s not talked about, many people have a knowledge gap about the safety of sexual activity during cancer treatment and the ways …
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By Gigi Engle Sex and our preferences for certain kinds of sex acts change all the time. This is a fact of life for many people. What worked for you for years may suddenly not be your thing anymore—and that’s totally OK. Nazanin Moali, Ph.D., a sex therapist and host of the Sexology podcast, tells …
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When dating interracially, some Black people say that code-switching, a common practice of adapting the way they look, speak or act in different social settings, comes as second nature. By Brianna Holt Last September, when Remy Barnwell, 26, started dating Ben Podnar, who is white, she was hesitant to wear her hair in its natural …
(and what it means) It’s time we talked about this stuff. By Tatyannah King If you enjoyed taking the TikTok color personality test, wait ’til you learn about the test that guides you to explore your kinks and get a visual breakdown of all the things you might not even know you’d enjoy in bed. …
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Here are the best ways to beat that pesky performance anxiety. By Zachary Zane Most of us love to have orgasms, which is why it can be frustrating when some of them come easier than others. You might find you can cum in less than a minute when you’re masturbating to porn by yourself, but …
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by Sarah Regan There are a number of things to consider when having sex after giving birth, from how soon you can actually do it to what bodily and hormonal changes you should expect. So, we asked experts for their best sex advice in the weeks following delivery. How soon after birth is it OK …
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Because pleasure = self-care. By Mollie Quirk An A to Z of kinks and fetishes probably isn’t something you knew you needed, but it’s time to up your sex-ed game because let’s be honest, sex – whether solo or with a partner – and self-care go hand-in-hand. Pleasure is wellness, people. And there could be …
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By Kelly Gonsalves Remember that time on Sex and the City when Charlotte received a rabbit vibrator and fell so in love with it that her friends needed to stage an intervention? It was a fun and goofy storyline, but it does operate under the assumption that it’s possible to masturbate “too much.” So…is it? …
From one queer to another, it’s a minefield out there. by Daisy Jones There are some wild misconceptions about bisexual people. The first is that you’re either secretly gay or just experimenting. The second is that you are always the sexuality of your current relationship. (If someone’s partner was ginger, you wouldn’t assume they only …
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Teenage boys’ easy access to violent sexual images is creating a crisis for them – and for women, argues the anti-porn campaigner By Julie Bindel Violence against women is never far from the news, but currently it is high on the agenda – and porn features again and again as a factor. From the murder …
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— Coming Out In My 30s Made Me Feel Like A Teen Again By Alena Papayanis A few years ago, my dentist tried to convince me to get Invisalign, along with a little bit of hardware as part of the full treatment. Braces? At 38? This was the final straw. At this point, I had …
Now I’m Reclaiming My Sexuality By Arese Sylvester I can’t remember a time I wasn’t interested in sex. As a child, I felt a sort of morbid curiosity towards it and I recognised it as the ‘ultimate sin’. The thing that would get me a ticket straight to hell. As time passed, my curiosity shifted. …
By Dr. Nan Wise The one question I’m asked pretty much every day as a sex therapist and relationship expert turned neuroscientist is how to keep desire alive. Good news? Cultivating the pleasures of an oral sex orgasm can be a delightful way to ignite and reignite passion over the long haul. In a recent …
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