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- Heather Corinna
What we are talking about here is celibacy, the deliberate choice not to have a sexual partner for any period of time. There’s nothing ambiguous about that. Being celibate entails sharing NO sexual acts with a partner: any kind of intercourse (vaginal or anal), oral sex, manual sex, and so forth. In other words, no physical, sexual contact with others; meaning any genital (penis or vulva) touch, with mouths, hands or anything else between you and someone else is off limits.
- Heather Corinna
A lot of false assumptions are often made when people are talking about BDSM. Let’s start with a little glossary to be sure we’re all on the same page.
- Heather Corinna
When I was 16, due to an irresponsible pairing of an impetuous one-night stand and a few days of partying, I woke up one morning to discover I had mononucleosis and walking pneumonia. As if that wasn’t enough, my period was late.
- Heather Corinna
Help understanding what rape is and isn’t, and in-depth information about what to do if you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted.
- Heather Corinna
Some people experience great pain or discomfort with vaginal sex or other kinds of vaginal entry that’s not about hymens, lack of arousal or lubrication, or rough partners, but about a health condition known as vaginismus.
- Heather Corinna
The next time anyone tells you that only losers masturbate, or that they don’t, and never would, bear this in mind: according to most studies and surveys, about 95% of adults have masturbated or continue to do so. Were many falsehoods and misconceptions about masturbation true, it would mean that 95 out of every 100 people would be blind, drooling psychopaths with hair on their palms and shrunken genitals.
- Heather Corinna
Itching like nobody’s business down south? Have a curdled discharge? Candida Albicans may be the hoodlum to blame.
- Suzeanne Peak
Never believe: “I love you, it will never happen again.” It will happen, again and again and again, unless someone puts a stop to it.
- Heather Corinna
A lot of questions about how to have intercourse, how to masturbate, and worries about what’s all going on down there can be solved by simply getting to know your own body.
- Lynn Ponton
Dr. Lynn Ponton’s book takes readers inside the minds of 15 troubled adolescents to provide a compelling look at today’s teenage experience.
On the vulva, both inner (labia minora) and outer (labia majora) sets of skin with sensory nerve endings which surround the vaginal opening.
Isabel Ravenna is a culture journalist whose work appears in Nat Geo, Business Insider, Complex and others. She also writes and edits The Ravenna Report.
A kind of relationship or practice where people in any kind of relationship knowingly agree and consent to one or both people having, pursuing, or being open to other romantic or sexual partners. Also called polyamory (poly) or open relationships. (ENM)