Sex & Sexuality

What’s sex? What’s sexuality? How do people experience and actively express their sexualities, by themselves, with partners or both? How can we take part in sex in ways that are wanted and consensual, physically and emotionally safe and enjoyable for everyone? How do you figure out what you like? How can you communicate about sex? How do you deal with feelings like fear, shame, anxiety, dysphoria and other body image issues? How do you create the kind of sexual life you want? You’ll find the answers to all these and more here.

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  • Heather Corinna

Hey there, Dylan: I’m really glad you came here with these questions: I think they’re some good ones. Let’s start with talking about what goes on, or can go on, on the dance floor with these girls, and with consent, and then we can get to what your friends are saying and how to deal with that. You…

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  • Mo Ranyart

First off, I’m glad to hear that your relationship in general, including your sex life, sounds like it’s going well right now. That’s certainly a great place to start from! There’s no type of sex or orgasm that’s “better” or more appropriate for a certain point in a relationship than another. So if…

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  • Robin Mandell

Generally, fear serves a very important and useful function. It helps us recognize things to validly be afraid of and allows us to defend or put ourselves on guard against or around those things; to do what we need to to keep ourselves safe and sound. Fear of pain is particularly adaptive. It often…

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  • Robin Mandell

Kissing and snuggling sure seem awfully underrated. Check out why we think what some folks consider only “first base” can be home runs all their own.

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  • Robin Mandell

I don’t think these questions are silly or foolish. Most of us, and I count myself in this group, don’t get many opportunities to learn about our bodies, or much about sex, and find ourselves either figuring things out as we go along or searching for information to help us. Sometimes that’s even the…

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  • Heather Corinna

Hi there, poonamdeshmukh. There isn’t any data that I know of which associates abortion specifically with troubles with orgasm, and I keep pretty good track of these things. However, here are a few things we do know to be real and which have been verified: There certainly are some sexual problems or…

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  • Heather Corinna

You know, one of the neatest, most interesting things about sex from my perspective, is that what people do and don’t enjoy is so diverse. One person’s least favorite sexual activity is another person’s favorite. I think that’s really cool. All of our bodies, sexualities and situations are so…

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  • Jenna Gaarde

Majani’s question continued: This is weird, but even when I watch porn, on occasions I watch male and female, but most of the time… And recently, I find myself watching gay porn. Most of the gay porn I watch are usually the ones where one of the guys initiate first and the other is reluctant at…

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  • Johanna Schorn

What does desire feel like, and how does feeling desire – or not feeling it – have an impact on sex or masturbation? Is it okay to feel strong desire, low levels of desire, or even no desire? We aim to answer your most pressing questions on sexual or erotic desire.

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  • Heather Corinna
  • Robin Mandell

What positions are there for sex? How do you do them? Which is the best one? And why does everyone seem to think positioning is so complicated when it’s really not?