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When your disabled body decides to literally crap out on you, how do you bring sexy back?

Help the young people in your life deal with rejection in healthy ways.

Hepatitis is is an inflammation of the liver almost always caused by different hepatitis viruses. Learn about prevention and treatment for hepatitis A, B, C, and beyond.

The words we use to talk about sexuality and gender matter, but do they have to be so complicated?

Sex isn’t a tit-for-tat experience, but communicating can help you build a mutually pleasurable and fun sex life.

Why are certain types of touch so important to our relationships? How does culture and identity affect how we think about touch as a form of social communication?

What should you do when someone says no to or otherwise refuses or declines your romantic or sexual gestures or asks Accept it and stop making those gestures or asks. That’s the right answer every single time: just accept someone’s no and then back right off. Asking or otherwise pressing over and over isn’t the right answer. “Not giving up” (which often looks a whole lot like harassment) isn’t the right answer. Trying to get them to change their mind isn’t the right answer. Trying to get them to change their mind through their friends or family also isn’t the right answer. And while it should be obvious, we so sadly know that it isn’t: no kind of violence is ever the right answer.

About one in five people in the United States over age 12 — approximately 45 million individuals — are infected with HSV-II, the virus that causes genital herpes. Around 50-80 percent of the adult population has oral herpes, which most people contract through nonsexual contact in childhood.

The coming out of celebrities like Janelle Monae pave the path for a better understanding of sexual identifiers.

Recently I had the privilege and the pleasure to chat with Bianca Laureano, otherwise known as the LatiNegra Sexologist, and co-founder of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WOCSHN). This is the full version of the interview — if you’d like to look at the main points summarized, look here! AW…

Delve into the complexity of identites, intimacy, and the state of sex education with an interview with Bianca Laureano, the LatiNegra Sexologist.

I’m always so sad to hear anyone who has the idea that needing – or just plain wanting! – lubricant is some kind of problem, means something is wrong with someone, or that that need is unusual. I also always find myself struggling to understand those feelings, even though I have heard many women…

What is sexual media, how might we think wisely about it, and how can we figure out how to feel and what choices to make with it?

Hi Lily, Loneliness can be a real bummer, can’t it? Especially when you’re in a stage of transition — getting ready to go to college, leaving your old life behind — it’s easy to get a little anxious about what might lie ahead in the future. Take a deep breath, pour yourself a cup of tea, and let’s…

It sounds like you’ve put a lot of thought into what you want from a romantic and sexual relationship, and that’s great! It’s always good to spend some time figuring out what you want and need before you start a relationship. By knowing yourself and your boundaries, you’ve got a solid foundation for…

You may have heard that gender is between our ears and sex is between our legs, but is it? And if not, what is it, and why is it so important to people? Let’s find out.

I’m so sorry that N is constantly misgendering you; that sounds like a painful situation. I know from experience that it can be incredibly hurtful and demoralizing to have someone in your social circle do this even after being corrected multiple times. Even if he acts like this behavior isn’t a big…

Soap truly has no gender, but the personal care aisle can still be a scary place. Let us help you out!

What would the world look like if we made a habit of thinking about personal boundaries in our everyday lives?

Is pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention right for me? When should I use post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)? Get the answers to these and other PEP/PrEP questions, right here!

The women of Wakanda both deal with and triumph over sexism. How can we apply Black Panther to our own lives?

I’m so sorry to hear that your friends’ behavior has got you feeling this way, Liv. From the sound of things, even if they’re not doing it on purpose, they’re souring what otherwise sounds like something that’s been pretty nice for you and is also obviously a formative life experience. A first…

Only a small percentage of Latinas in the U.S. use tampons, despite their cultural prevalence—what gives?

People of color can find themselves the target of sexual racism, but what exactly IS sexual racism, and what do we do about it?

I think what you both should do — or more to the point, the only sound thing I think you can do — is accept each of your feelings and wants instead of trying to change them. I also think it’s important you let your girlfriend know that she should work to accept her feelings as well. I think it would…