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Here’s How Cutting Out Booze Can Actually Improve Your Dating Life By Nick Levine Even if you’re not partaking in Dry January, you probably know someone who is. Giving up alcohol for an entire month following the festive excess of December has become an increasingly common New Year health kick. In fact, one in five …
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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 …
From safer queer sex to less gendered language. By Syd Stephenson Across the United States, sex education curriculum is severely lacking. Many receive abstinence-only education, which can leave out important things like the emotional aspects of sex, how to use protection, and that it is not only normal to have sex, but normal to …
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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 …
Teenagers and young men still don’t have the right vocabulary. Can we help them get there? By Peggy Orenstein A while back, during a discussion I was having with a group of high school students about sexual ethics, a boy raised his hand to ask me, “Can you have sex without feelings?” The other guys …
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It’s Not a Dirty Word and I Think Kids Should Know What It Is By Jackie Gillard It may seem shocking and vulgar to some, but teaching appropriately aged children of all genders about a body part existing only for a woman’s sexual pleasure isn’t just about a woman’s pleasure. Almost all Canadian school sex-ed …
By Ashley Tibbits Of all the New Year’s resolutions you could make — better overall health, learning something new daily, practicing gratitude, etc. — arguably some of the best are those that involve improving your close relationships. And that includes your more (ahem) intimate ones. Regardless of whether your current sex life is stagnant or …
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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7 New Year’s Resolutions To Make That Happen By Kelly Gonsalves While you’re plotting out all your New Year’s resolutions for the coming year, why not add in one for your sex life? We can sometimes forget to consider sex when thinking about what we want from our lives, but sex is an important part …
“My sex life is better than at any other time, even during the ‘free love’ era of the 60s and 70s.” by Mark Hay Joel Kann, 70, knew he was aging when other grey-haired men started offering him their seats on the bus. Bonnie Nilsen, 71, knew it when she looked in the mirror one …
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Your Sex Life Is Now PETA-Approved by Aaron Granger Vegan condoms don’t test on animals and don’t possess animal components. And due to that, you can now bone with a clear conscience. “Condom fragments are inserted into rabbits for a vaginal irritation test. The rabbits are sacrificed, and their wombs are extracted to determine its …
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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By Canela López While sex in general has been misrepresented in popular media and porn, LGBTQ sex, in particular, tends to be exaggerated. Less than 6% of teens reported that they received sex education with any mention of LGBTQ-related topics, making it easy to believe some of the most popular myths. Here are 7 things you …
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Because the reality is: relationships aren’t always love hearts and butterflies. By Sophie Victoria Brown You may be one of the lucky few in a healthy relationship, but thanks to pop culture (and our obsession with binge-watching rom-coms) we tend to see everything through rose-tinted glasses. Thanks to the unrealistic expectations set by Love Actually …
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