5 Kissing Techniques: How to Recreate an Intimate Spark
Kissing is an intimate way of showing affection, whether it’s on the cheek, forehead, or lips. When it comes to pleasing your partner, kissing is one of the most important…
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Sexual Health
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Articles under this category are about sexual health and wellness.
13 Erogenous Zones to Explore with Your Partner
Erogenous zones are defined as areas on the female or male body that are extremely sensitive to touch. These areas can enhance orgasms and sexual pleasure and desire, encourage relaxation, build…
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Mental Health and Masturbation-Self Pleasuring: The Edge of Orgasm
Masturbation is seen through many lenses although one lens not discussed often is the history of masturbation from ancient traditions. I wanted to end May aka Masturbation month by paying…
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Anal Play along with Masturbation
Happy masturbation month! Do you include anal play when you masturbate? If you are thinking about trying anal sex for the first time or want to do it more often,…
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Anxiety from the idea of Masturbating
Masturbation is a normal sexual activity to discover your own body. Plenty of people masturbate. It assists you in learning how you like to be touched. It’s a perfectly healthy…
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Solo Play and your Menstrual Cycle
Happy Masturbation Month! Solo play is a wonderful thing, for everyone. For those of us that menstruate (have a period/monthly cycle), the desire to masturbate, as well as the effect…
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The Double Standards of Discussing Sex
For women, we are taught that reproduction is the only reason for having sex. In most cultures, women do not view sex as a pleasurable act. Women have over 8000…
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Muslims and Masturbation: A “Touchy” Subject
Muslims and Masturbation…“Um…you want me to do what?” During my career as a sexual health educator in Muslim communities, I’ve been confided in by Muslim women who disclose confusion, shame, and…
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4 recommendations for mothers having the masturbation talk…
Masturbation, self-pleasure, is a healthy practice that is self-discovered by many kids at a young age, and having the masturbation talk is as important as having the talk about sex.…
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BDSM…Why Media Needs More Positive Portrayals
Although the popular and controversial series, 50 Shades of Grey sparked conversations about kink and BDSM in mainstream culture, BDSM had existed long before its famous and problematic portrayal. BDSM…
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The known benefits of masturbation
People talk about anything and everything but, for many of us, having a conversation about masturbation is still taboo; we won’t discuss the subject at work or at dinner parties.…
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70 aka Youth of Old Age
As my friend and colleague, Dr. Betty Dodson, informed me, 70 is the youth of old age. “So, get it on when you get there, Stephanie, ” she stated that…
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Microwave Millennials and Situationships
Many of us are unaware of the word Situationship. Situationships are relationships that involve everything EXCEPT commitment. “I do not have to care about you if I do not want…
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5 Ways I Learned to Improve My Sexual Journey during Quarantine
It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a year since we’ve been living with COVID-19 restrictions. Regardless of your home life, you are probably, like many women, finding it…
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Exploring Kink 101
Have you ever thought about exploring kink but unsure of how to navigate this area or even understand what sexual activity is labeled as kink to determine if it’s right…
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Decolonizing Understandings of Muslim and Sexuality
When I mention the words Muslim and sexuality and asked you to share the first thoughts or images that came to mind, I can hazard a guess for what they might be. I’ve done…
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5 Prompts for Creating an Erotic Bullet Journal
Journaling is a must for your sexual self-care. Writing in a journal is a great way to inspire creativity, reflect on your thoughts and emotions, set and achieve goals, practice…
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6 Tips for Suffering from Sexual Anxiety
Sexual anxiety is a very real concern that affects both men and women. And it affects a lot of them — almost everyone experiences sexual anxiety at some point in…
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Which Base Did You Get To?
“Which base did you get to”? is a question that is bandied around high school corridors and forms a fairly large part of how we understand sex, particularly at a…
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Be BOLD and use a Lubricant
Cardi B. and Megan Thee Stallion boast about the “WAP”. The vagina is “wet” and ready for sex and play. Wet is another way of saying lubricated; sometimes this can…
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