Sex Advice With An Edge
Many of things that got women committed in the 1870s would be considered normal behavior today. By Anabelle Bernard Fournier Despite all the effort made today to de-stigmatize mental illness, the history of mental health and its treatment isn’t pretty. Even as late as the 1970s, lobotomies were widely practiced in the United States to …
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(Personally I wouldn’t use the term celibacy to describe sexual abstinence and HERE is why.) The most important lessons I learned about sex were when I wasn’t having any. By Laura Jane Williams 1. I used to have a lot of sex. I’m not shy about it. I was a woman with many casual …
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Sexual consent can be tough to explain to young kids. But this psychotherapist has some advice. By Lisa McCrohan My daughter and I are waiting in the exam room for the pediatrician. We are here for her annual wellness checkup. And from the moment our pediatrician walks through the door, she is all about focusing on …
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Name: Jake Gender: male Age: 23 Location: Omaha I’m 23, and I’ve been dating 30-year-old chick for nearly a year now. I come from a very conservative Christian upbringing and I love that she is more experienced than me. My girlfriend likes to tie me up. I’m a college gymnast so I have very defined …
Becoming a sex educator didn’t prepare me for the challenges of married sex, but here’s what I learned along the way. By Jeana Jorgensen Around the same time I graduated with a Ph.D. and started to pursue a career as a part-time academic and part-time sex educator, I got married. I’d heard about how marriage …
Name: Carol Gender: Female Age: 28 Location: Montreal I like oral sex, but my new BF doesn’t know what he’s doing down there. He’s really sweet and I like him a lot. Unfortunately, he thinks he’s like this really great lover when actually he sucks…and not in a good way. I know he reads your …
Condemned, celebrated, shunned: masturbation has long been an uncomfortable fact of life. Why? by Barry Reay The anonymous author of the pamphlet Onania (1716) was very worried about masturbation. The ‘shameful vice’, the ‘solitary act of pleasure’, was something too terrible to even be described. The writer agreed with those ‘who are of the opinion, …
By Jenelle Marie Davis STDs can be scary – if you don’t know the facts. Due to the highly stigmatized nature of sexually transmitted diseases and infections, it’s no wonder everything from STD prevention to transmission gets cloaked in confusion and misconception. STDs rarely get talked about without a hidden agenda: fear. Fair enough. STDs …
By Rhonda Jackson Joseph Many of us could learn a thing or two from pornography, even the bad stuff. We all hate them, those bad pornos. I mean the ones that have taught a generation of men how to perform sex acts all wrong (and all too roughly), and told the same generation of women …
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By William Kremer In the last two decades, dozens of scientific papers have been published on the biological origins of homosexuality – another announcement was made last week. It’s becoming scientific orthodoxy. But how does it fit with Darwin’s theory of evolution? Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s hit song Same Love, which has become an unofficial …
By Mistress Kay Strap-on fun isn’t just for women. Men can have fun, too. Use these 8 steps to choose the best strap-on harness for your needs. Did you know that even if you have a penis that you can still wear a strap-on harness? Yes, manufacturers make strap-on harnesses for the male-bodied as well …
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By Wednesday Lee Friday Spectacular sex – at any size – is really all about putting mind over body mass. I was in my 20s the first time I heard the term BBW and learned that it stood for Big Beautiful Women. I had access to magazines, TV, books, movies and a host of other …
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By Ken Howard, LCSW Recently, some clients in my psychotherapy practice, which for 22 years has focused on the mental health and well-being of adult gay men, have been discussing the role and value of a “fuck buddy” in their lives. While all sexual topics (even in our “modern” age) seem to come fraught with …
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The massacre in Orlando necessitates this reposting… I’m riding the bus when we come to a stop near a local high school. Five teenage boys get on. They’re all jocks—football, probably. Their jackets are emblazoned with varsity letters and they appear to be fresh from practice. Each carries an oversized duffel. They are boisterous and …
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 15 years old then and I knew I was …
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