Sex Advice With An Edge
By Ashley Laderer If you’re lacking confidence in bed, try starting with a simple position like missionary. Reverse cowgirl and doggy style can be great for people who are self-conscious of their belly area. For a little more adventure without going too wild, try the leapfrog or the lotus position. If you feel self-conscious during …
By Natalie Morris There are not many things more important than our health. Living through a pandemic has taught us that much. Our experiences over the last two years have given all of us a new appreciation for being healthy and looking after our wellbeing. However, one area is still frequently neglected and rarely talked …
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By Farrah Khan< At the age of 13, I invented masturbation. Well, in my mind I did. I knew boys masturbated, but I had no idea that girls did too. I thought I was a genius discovering this magical spot on my body that gave me so much joy. It became a way to self-soothe, …
American culture still treats disinterest in sex as something that needs to be fixed. What if any amount of desire—including none—was okay? By Angela Chen For more than half a century, the modern industry of sex therapists, educators, and experts has been eager to tell us whether we’re having enough sex, or the right kind …
— Research On The Health And Wellness Of Consensual Non-Monogamy By Rebecca Coffey If Charles Darwin was right, human love and sex are rooted in the same reproductive imperative that makes animals mate. We want to send our genetic material into subsequent generations. Mind you, cats, dogs, Tasmanian devils, insects, fish, birds, and even Big …
It’s basically like a ~sexy~ Myers-Briggs personality test. By Morgan Mandriota Hello, my friends: Welcome to the safe space where kinksters, rookies, and all those in between unite. If you’re looking to explore a new fetish, maybe dabble in a few new kinks, or find out what exactly a brat is (…among other things), you’ve …
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By magictr The way we think about sexuality is changing. Where once there was a single, well-known rainbow flag, a symbol of pride, today a wide range flies to show the diversity of sexual orientations. People seem increasingly open to discussing their sexuality, and less conventional identities, even previously “invisible”, have become part of an …
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Some states now consider pornography to be a health threat. But stigmatizing porn can do more harm than good. By Olga Khazan If you ask some people, America is in the middle of a public-health crisis. No, not that one. Legislators in 16 states have passed resolutions declaring that pornography, in its ubiquity, constitutes a …
Internalized homophobia occurs when a person is subject to society’s negative perceptions, intolerance, and stigma toward people with same-sex attraction. They then turn those ideas inward, believing that they are true, and experience self-hatred as a result of being a socially stigmatized person. by Zawn Villines Internalized homophobia happens when a person consciously or unconsciously …
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By Lindsey Ellefson If you were raised to see sex and sexuality as a source of shame and embarrassment, you might notice that such feelings tend to linger, no matter how educated, open-minded, and open-legged you consider yourself today. If you come from a religious background, it’s probably even worse. Fortunately, many religious leaders and …
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Love & Lust 2021: Developing a Sense of Self By Jamila Reddy When I was five years old, my parents gave my sister and me a book called “Where Did I Come From?” Published in 1973, the book featured illustrations and explanations of how babies are made. On the front and back covers were a …
Your questions answered by sex-positive pros. By Ali Pantony For most millennials, the words ‘sex education’ probably conjure up images of clinical vulva diagrams, scaremongering STI leaflets, entirely heteronormative textbooks and absolutely tons of bananas encased in condoms. Basically, you know that bit in Mean Girls when the PE teacher tells the class that if …
“Kink Helped My Mental Health.” By Yasmin Lajoie Two years ago, 38-year-old Alice* suddenly went profoundly deaf. She lost her job, her boyfriend dumped her and the relentless tinnitus she experienced led her to have suicidal thoughts. “Before I went deaf, I was stable,” she tells me. “I had trauma but I could live with …
—and How To Overcome It By Morgan Mandriota I recently uncovered, in therapy, that I have a shame-based fear of having casual sex; I’ve breathed in toxic sex-shaming messaging from a young age, dating back to middle school, when my dad and I had “the talk.” He walked into my bedroom, told me not to …
Coco de Mer CEO Lucy Litwack gets to the roots of why we still don’t feel comfortable talking about female masturbation and orgasm By Lucy Litwack From art to culture, education to pornography, the female perspective on pleasure in all its forms is little discussed or truly understood. And yet, from general happiness and confidence, …
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