myths

Like any myth or urban legend, there’s just enough truth involved to make something sound reasonable or make people question it. Just like any other part of the body, when one’s weight changes, it makes the body look different than it did before the weight loss or gain. So it would not be…

What you’re describing here comes down to a word that many people interested in psychology would term “displacement.” The theory of displacement was first brought about by the well known Sigmund Freud to describe the idea that when a person is upset, they shift their impulses from an unacceptable…

When a person, behaving in a healthy way, chooses not to tolerate a certain dynamic in a relationship they dislike or which makes them unhappy, what they choose to do is set a limit. If that limit is not respected by a partner, they then terminate the relationship and potentially contact with that…

Frankly, if your first thought is to try and change your body – rather than to change the dynamic of this relationship or get out of it – something is horribly amiss. Your husband is clearly ignorant when it comes to bodies. A penis – be it his or anyone else’s – doesn’t have the capacity to…

Vibrators cannot “desensitize” anyone in any permanent way. There have never been any findings through sound research which have shown that vibrators or other vigorous stimulation of the clitoris do anyone harm or change anyone’s anatomy or sexual response permanently. Sure, they can kind of numb…

Unless you’re masturbating with something that isn’t sanitary – such as a toy or object that can’t really be sanitized, or with unwashed hands – masturbation can’t cause disease or infection, just like you, say, putting your fingers in your mouth isn’t going to cause disease or infection unless…

You probably put the word cherry in quotes because you’re not exactly sure what on earth it even is. That’s understandable, since nobody really does, as it’s not something real. Usually, when people talking about “cherry-popping,” when it comes to sex, they are colloquially saying that someone…

No it is not. Let’s dissect this so that you understand why not. You don’t urinate from within your vagina, but rather from your urethra, a very small, barely visible opening on your vulva between your vaginal opening and your clitoris. To get a better idea of what I’m talking about, have a look at…

Not all people with vaginas bleed with first intercourse. Given your age at the time of your first intercourse, it would have been even less common for you to do so since by 26, it would have been more common for most of your hymen to have mostly eroded by then – simply due to basic development…

I’m so sorry you’re having to go through this, confused. You know, most of what many people think about virginity just isn’t accurate. And really, in so many ways, most ideas about virginity, and dynamics of virginity are sexist, have done a lot of women real harm through history and are…well…