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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Articles and Advice in this area:

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  • Heather Corinna

The size of someone’s body in terms of height and weight really doesn’t have any bearing on genital size. If you have the idea that a very small woman has a much smaller vagina than a very large woman, time to toss that idea out, since there’s never been any data to support that premise. When it…

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  • Heather Corinna

Who says you’re not as hot as someone who weighs less than you, gal? In other words, it’s entirely possible this guy is attracted to a hot girl: you. Not everyone shares the same aesthetics when it comes to who we’re attracted to, nor does everyone subscribe to a given set of beauty ideals or…

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  • Stephanie

While the experience was probably different and new to you, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a weird experience. Female ejaculation (which is also called squirting, since not every person with a vulva is female) is actually a normal sexual response, though it’s not as common a response. So…

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  • Heather Corinna

Throw a rock at any sex education site or service, ask what the most common question we get is from men and we’ll all tell you that it’s about penis size. We don’t imagine with this piece we’ll never get asked again, but we’re hoping these answers get you guys better filled in so you can feel good about yourselves, your penises and whatever you do (or don’t) do with them.

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  • Heather Corinna

Orgasms will tend to last anywhere from a few seconds to less than a minute for most people, most of the time. Orgasms for people with vaginas often tend to last a bit longer than orgasms for people with penises – but for people of all genders, we’re still talking within an average of a few seconds…

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  • Heather Corinna

Obviously, this is more of a personal judgment call than anything else. But personal ethics and the integrity of a relationship (as well as your own integrity) aside, you are likely to have some practical problems with not being truthful about faking and then expecting the sex to improve. I have to…

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  • Sarah Riley

Pregnancy tests, both the blood and the urine type, are pretty darn accurate these days. So if you’ve had two negative home tests (HPTs) and a negative test at the doctor’s office (assuming they were all correctly taken and done at least 14 days after the last time you were sexually active), then…

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  • Heather Corinna

Honestly? The biggest fantasy driving the bus here is that the length of time your erection lasts has much to do with your partner’s pleasure (or yours, to some degree) at all. That isn’t to say that you won’t likely have sex partners – some, plenty, even all of them – who don’t enjoy sex that…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

I sure can. Around ten to twenty percent of all women have flat or inverted nipples (and some men have them, too). So, suggesting that having something different is not how a nipple is “supposed” to be doesn’t make any more sense than suggesting that because only around 4% of the population are…

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  • Sarah Riley

Well, if the woman in question took a pen and wrote “I’m a virgin!” on her forehead, that might tell you something. However, otherwise there are not any signs one can look for to determine virginity short of asking the person in question. Virginity is not really a physical issue so much as it is a…