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Support from the Start: How to Talk About Disability With A Disabled Partner When You're a Nondisabled Person
Body Talk: Listening To and Learning From Your Chronic Pain
Three Dating Apps Are Made for People With Illnesses and Disabilities (at The Mighty)
The STI Files: Mycoplasma genitalium
Sick, Sexy, and Disabled
Partners in Pain
Higher Learning: Navigating Sex and Relationships in College
An Infection Getting Worse and Worse: Can I Just Wait it Out?
I am 15 and I just had sex for the first time last Friday. It was unprotected but he did not cum. The next morning I had pain. The pain continued through Saturday and Sunday. I thought the pain was from having sex for the first time, but it's now Monday and I realized stinging while I pee, cloudy with some blood in it too, in addition to constantly having to pee and never feeling empty....
Sex And Disability: Starting the Conversation, Finding the Resources
As an educator and advocate of healthy sexuality, who also has some disabilities, I think it’s pretty important for people to have accurate information, but also to see themselves and their experiences included in the conversations we have about sexuality. So, I’ve put together a list of resources that put people with various kinds of disabilities smack dab back in the middle of the conversation.
Got an Infection? Some Take-Care Basics.
Over the last few weeks, I have been sicker than sicker than sick. I managed to pick up whooping cough, which, combined with other health issues I already have, made my blood pressure dip to a very scary place, to boot. I had already been having some flare-ups from those other issues, so they made the whooping cough worse, it made them worse. Like plenty of uninsured people do, I tried to hold off on healthcare for as long as I could, but eventually had to cave and suck up the big bill so I could get the big meds and also be sure I wasn't, you know, dying or anything.