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:

Advice
  • 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…

Advice
  • 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…

Advice
  • 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…

Advice
  • 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…

Article
  • 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.

Article
  • Ophira Edut

This is not another diet guide. It will not show you how to lose ten pounds by Thanksgiving. It will not introduce you to a new set of “miracle ab crunches” or rave about the latest liposuction advances. And there will be no butt pads, silicone, or fat-free recipes to share.

Article
  • Audra Williams

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

Article
  • Josh Cuppage

There are a number of falsehoods about ED floating around from schoolyards to saloons; get the facts here.

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  • Heather Corinna

we hear everybody talking about puberty, attributing everything from the development of breasts to being in a crap mood on Tuesday to it, but what is it, really?