While I discovered my own sexuality very early and got comfortable with my body before I fully knew what exactly I was doing, I didn't feel interest in having sex with someone else until I had my first serious boyfriend, whom I am still together with. And while I have always been A-okay with sex by ...

I have never shaved my pubic hair, ever, and I am here to tell you that nobody has ever seemed to notice when I was at the beach or swimming pool (and I go swimming a lot). I've had to deal with a lot of unfriendly, unsolicited attention in my life, especially while wearing my bathing clothes, but i...

It's so reassuring somehow to find out that other people out there get pregnancy scares too... I went through a phase where I had this unfounded fear of being pregnant almost all the time, because my cycle was messed up and it could take very long between periods. My gynecologist explained why, I un...

Hey there, this sounds like a complex subject that the wonderful staff around here can and very likely will give you good information on. Just a little bit of two-cents-worth from another user: I think an outside perspective is often helpful, because being in love can be kind of blinding in my exper...

Hello, just in case this is reassuring for you: It took me two years to get comfortable with tampons and in the beginning, I was convinced I'd never be able to get one in. My body, it turned out, is perfectly average - I just had to get to know it. The angle turned out to be different than I had ima...

Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll check it out.

Again, thank you so much for taking the time to reply and for being so helpful and individual about it. It sometimes really helps to get an outside perspective.

Thanks for your sympathy... I think the trickiest part for me is on the one hand being sympathetic and understanding of how my partner feels but at the same time taking care of myself. I know I won't really help him in any way by saying yes when I mean no or agreeing to something I am just not in th...

Thanks, Heather, I think I do follow... And I'm laughing at myself so hard right now because "don't try to be your partner's therapist" is usually my standard advice to my own friends. Seems I'm one of those people who should learn to practice what they preach - but I couldn't see it, I th...

We've talked about this quite a lot... He explicitly says he feels ashamed of feeling desire for me while I don't want to have sex. And then I say there's nothing to feel ashamed of, it's just like one person being hungry and the other not or one person wanting to go out and the other wanting to sta...

So I'm finally daring to ask for a bit of advice for myself... I am still in my first relationship. We've been together for years and I think it's going great, in bed and out of it. There's just one thing I am unsure how to handle: Quite often, it happens that he wants to have sex and I don't. My de...

I wish more parents were like my mother when it comes to their kids sexual lives and questions. We've had our problems, but at this part of being a mom, she was and is wonderful: Answered every question without judging or ridiculing me for wanting to know, always honest, straight-forward, matter-of-...

I think you can love at every age. Children love their parents (well, most children do), and that love is real, isn't it? As we grow older, we may understand love better and our relationship skills might improve, but I don't think being young and comparatively inexperienced makes your love less stro...

Thank you for the reply. I just wanted someone out there to explain not just to me but to others that it's ok to like things that are bad as long as you realize that it's well bad. I needed that vent and to seek others. Curious Empath - what a wonderful name! If you ask me (and you didn't, I know, ...

I like my gender. I just really love being a woman. I like my female body, I like having breasts and "lady parts" (sorry if that sounds prude...), I like getting my period, even. I feel comfortable around other women (as a rule - of course there are exceptions). I don't understand why some...

- Exercise. Especially running. I don't do it to achieve anything in particular, don't care about covering a certain distance in a certain time or how well other people can do it, I just jog along to my favorite music and enjoy the feeling of my lungs expanding and my heart pumping and my muscles wo...