Bodies

If it’s about a system or a part of the human body and how they work, you’ll find it here. Anatomy, body function and whole systems explainers – about all kinds of bodies, and usually presented through a gender-neutral lens – myth and misnomer debunking, help navigating sexual, reproductive and other physical healthcare: it’s all in here.

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  • Heather Corinna

No need to be embarrassed! Understand that the rectum is not a straight line, but is curved. It’s not only curved, it’s kind of curved twice: if the anatomy of your rectum from a side view was a map, we’d essentially go in from the anus, take a left, take a right, then go up again towards the right…

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  • Heather Corinna

Hey, there, Anon: glad we’ve continued being of help to you! Honestly, I don’t see any cause for concern here. Not only do I see no viable risks of pregnancy in this, just as you don’t, I also don’t see any reason to assume that you didn’t have a period this time around. My guess is you just have…

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  • David

Hey Anonymous, On a personal note, when I was growing up I was really, really freaked out about the way I was shaped. Enough so that I was almost panicky the first time anyone else saw it! It turned out I was way more worried than I needed to be. Turns out that normal erections bend in all different…

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  • Heather Corinna

Hey, Scott. Having one testicle has absolutely no physiological impact on sexual performance. Arousal, erection and orgasm are not reliant on the testicles in any way. As well, having your testicle removed, and but one remaining would not have impacted your sexual or general development, and your…

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  • Heather Corinna

Absolutely! Understand that orgasm isn’t really a genital event: rather, it’s a whole body event, one that takes place primarily in your nervous system and cardiovascular system, but which we feel effects of in our genitals as well, and which genital sex often causes. So, your heart rate goes up…

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  • Heather Corinna

Overall, body size doesn’t influence penis size. In other words, plenty of tall men have average-sized penises, like you, and plenty of short men have larger-than-average sized penises. Same goes for weight: penis size isn’t influenced by body mass, either. At the age of 20, it’s pretty likely that…

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  • Heather Corinna

That’s pretty normal as partners get more comfortable having sex together, so you should let him know that doesn’t mean anything is wrong. But if he’s not satisfied with that, the trick generally is just to mix it up: to mix in way more activities than intercourse, and to focus on his whole body…

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  • Heather Corinna

Plenty! Without more information than that, it’s hard for me to know what’s been part of your sexual activity. For instance, if by sexually active, you just mean with partners – for any activity – then I’d suggest going back to your own drawing board, with your own two hands, and finding out about…

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  • Heather Corinna

I’m going to suggest you look at reciprocity in sex—the idea that one person gives something so the other should get something of equal value—in a different way.

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  • Audra Williams

I was about 14 when I started to realize that only one of my breasts was developing. That’s weird, I thought.