No matter the app, swiping and dating can be tricky. If you’re going to use dating or hookup apps, here’s how to make the process a little easier.
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I want to like sex but I don't.
How can you feel safe enough to enjoy sex when you’re a survivor of childhood sexual abuse?
Wonder in a World of Worry: My Body is My Buddy
When the world outside is dark and scary, connecting with your body can be a place where you find safety and sanctuary. To talk about finding home in your body, I reached out to Dirty Lola.
The Bigger Picture on Erections
Learn about what an erection is, how it might look for specific bodies and hormonal profiles, and how to have some useful and fun conversations with sexual partners.
Rebel Well: How to Help Each Other & Improve This Godawful Mess
This piece is part of Rebel Well: a Starter Survival Guide to a Trumped America for Teens and Emerging Adults.
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’― Fred Rogers
• Stand up for other people. Period.
• Be a safe haven. Being a safe haven is something you do with your deeds, not just your words — and those deeds need to be meaningful. While signaling that you are friendly with something like a Pride pin can be comforting, it’s also important to take action, too, so people know that
COCSA: What It Is, How To Know if It’s Got Anything To Do With You, and What To Do If It Does
Here are some things — from someone with nearly 30 years of experience providing sex, relationships, and health education along with lived experience as an assault survivor — to know about child-on-child sexual abuse.
Care Web Toolkit
Our downloadable and printable templates to help you keep and organize all your healthcare information.
From Touch to Trust: Physical Intimacy in Recovery
Opening up to yourself and to another person physically may take time, but it is absolutely possible.
At the Edge of the Bed: Learning to Want Again
You may have a curiosity to see what a new existence of desire can offer you, and you may find in it a source of confidence — within yourself, and with partners.
Being Closeted & Joyful in a Black Household
Nigeria is not a safe place to be queer in. But the immediate, real threat to my desire for the authenticity I felt was waiting for me on the other side of coming out was my family.