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.

a lovely elephant happy in their own skin

Highlighted content

Articles and Advice in this area:

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

A guy thinking that would be similar to someone from one culture looking at someone of another, who looks different or unfamililar, and presuming that because someone looks different from what they look like, or what they know or expect, that that person isn’t normal. Just as when that’s the case…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

I’m sorry you had such a bad experience. However, please understand that that bad experience did not likely cause permanent changes to your vulva or vagina. While certainly, if you were tense or underlubricated, that could have caused a tear to the tissue of the vaginal corona, which may cause mild…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

It’d actually be pretty atypical for a regular period to fall on the same numeric dates for a long time. Let me explain why that is. The number of days in each calendar month is not the same: it varies from month to month. Menstrual cycles, on the other hand, when they’re regular, are a given number…

Advice
  • Sarah Riley

You know, I really wish I could get a hold of whomever started this obsession with vaginal “tightness” and have a few choice words with them. Most of the words I’d have to say would not be very nice. But since that person is not here right now, all I can do is try to clear up a few of the…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

Hey Dan: thanks for the props. :) ED drugs really aren’t intended for younger men, nor for the occasional problem with ED. Rather, they’re intended for a very persistent and ongoing problem, over time, and for older men who have ED for physical reasons due to aging or another medical condition (like…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

Know that as of this date, it is not medically advised for people who menstruate to use the pill to manipulate menstrual cycles and have any less than four periods (or, more accurately on the pill, withdrawal bleeds) each year. There are still no long-term studies on doing even that, and if you’re a…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

If we pay attention to our whole bodies every day, what we’ll usually notice is that nothing is ever static. In other words, one day running a couple miles may be relatively easy for us, while the next day, we might get winded with half that, or feel like we’re dragging. One day our skin is clear…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

Most likely, it’s just your cervix. The cervix is the end of your uterus, or the beginning, depending on how you look at it, and the cervix and cervical canal jut into the back of the vagina. When you’re not highly aroused (arousal usually will pull the cervix further back), you can usually feel it…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

So long as you’re in good general and sexual health, there’s no reason your genitals WOULD taste bad. Too, giving you oral sex shouldn’t be something you even need to worry about being gross for your boyfriend: if you’re not pressuring him to do so, and he’s willingly and with enjoyment engaging in…

Advice
  • Susie Tang

Has your girlfriend ever had a pelvic exam? If no, or if not lately, then she should visit her doctor and get checked out. That’s the only way she’ll figure out what that lump is. The best I could suggest is it may be her cervix. That’s the lower tip of the uterus, and it feels like a rounded bump…