How To Teach Girls What A Healthy Relationship Looks Like, Early On

by Kimberly Wolf, M.Ed. Love is one of the highest-impact subjects you can teach. Fortunately, it’s also one of the easiest to broach. If you’re tempted to open up a discussion of romantic relationships with “no dating until you’re 30!” you wouldn’t be alone or entirely misguided. Throughout history, conventional wisdom held that fathers should …

How to deal with nerves the first time you have same-sex sex

By Ellen Scott Okay, so you’re pondering having sex with someone of the same gender for the first time. Feeling nervous? Don’t panic – that’s totally normal. ‘Same-sex sex can feel daunting even if you’ve had plenty of “straight” sex before,’ sex and relationships expert Annabelle Knight tells Metro.co.uk. ‘The reason it feels so different …

12 ways to boost libido and improve your sex life

By Ashley Laderer and Shannon Ullman You can increase your sex drive with diet, exercise, sleep, relaxation, herbs, and more. Everyone’s sex drive is different, and there is no “normal” or “abnormal” desire for sex. Low libido can be caused by health conditions, medication, mental health issues, and more. Media and societal norms lead people …

Now is the time to talk to your teens about birth control.

— Here’s how. By Elizabeth Chang The Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is likely to affect abortion access in roughly half the states, most of which either don’t mandate sex education or offer sex education that emphasizes abstinence, an approach that, research shows, does not encourage adolescents to delay intercourse …