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There’s No Sex Without Consent — So Why Aren’t We Learning About It?
by Elizabeth Gulino
Yes, Some Asexual People Masturbate. No, We Don't Need To Explain Why
by Yasmin Benoit
What I Wish I Could Tell Myself As A Baby Queer
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Misinformation
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Shan Boodram Wishes She Orgasmed Every Day
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How I'm Unlearning My Shame About Sex — One Orgasm At A Time
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Sex Re-Education
Consent Needs To Be Sex Education 101
Elizabeth Gulino
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Sex Re-Education
Yes, Some Asexual People Masturbate. No, We Don’t Need To Explain Why
Yasmin Benoit
Aug 30, 2022
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Sex Re-Education
How I’m Unlearning My Shame About Sex — One Orgasm At A Time
Carli Whitwell
Aug 30, 2022
Sex Re-Education
What I Wish I Could Tell Myself As A Baby Queer
Melanie Whyte
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Why I Do It
Sexologist Shan Boodram Wishes She Orgasmed Every Day
Elizabeth Gulino
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Natalie Gil
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Lady Gaga Carries First Alleged Hedi Slimane For Céline Bag
Landon Peoples
Aug 30, 2018
Sex
Porn Is The New Sex Ed — Here’s Why That’s a Problem
Melanie Whyte
Sep 28, 2022
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Sex
2 Women On How Vaginismus Doesn’t Stop Them From Feeling Pleasure
Elizabeth Gulino
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Sex Re-Education
Group Sex Changed My Life For The Better
Ruby Rare
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Sex Re-Education
Turned On By Sweat And Body Odor? You’re Not Alone
Alicia Lansom
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Sex Re-Education
Is Your First Orgasm Supposed To Be The Best One You’ll Ever Have?
The first time Kara* had an orgasm, she blacked out. “It took me to another dimension,” she tells Refinery29. She was fresh into college and had just s
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Elizabeth Gulino
Sex Re-Education
I Can’t Orgasm, Am I Broken?
The first time I had a go at an orgasm, I tried to plan for everything. Music? Check. Unrealistic erotic content? Check. Privacy? I mean, as much privacy a
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Sriha Srinivasan
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Elizabeth Gulino
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Sex Re-Education
Asexuality Is So Much More Than “Not Having Sex”
Brianna used to feel like she needed to overcompensate for not experiencing sexual attraction. Until her early 20s, the grocery store manager from New Jers
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Julie Kliegman
Sex
There Are A Lot Of Good Reasons To Masturbate On Your Period
How you feel during your period can vary. One month you might feel crampy and bloated and want to curl up in bed; other months, you might feel like your se
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Erika W. Smith
Sex
Here’s How Anxiety Affects Your Ability To Orgasm
If you’re someone who deals with stress and anxiety, the unwanted mental and physical effects can creep up during the most inopportune times. Perhaps you
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Claire Fox
Sex Re-Education
Fight, Flight Or Freezing In Bed: What To Do When You Get Sexual ...
If you’ve ever dealt with sexual anxiety, you’ll know it’s the last thing you want in bed. Even if the lighting is just right and the music is su
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Claire Fox
Sex
So That's Why You Get So Horny During Your Period
If sex drives followed the perfectly-laid plan of your menstrual cycle, then you’d feel your sexiest around 10 to 13 days after your period ends, bec
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Kasandra Brabaw
Sex Re-Education
Why Women Love Making Fictional Men Have Sex
“I find the idea of one hot man appealing, so I consequently find the idea of two hot men appealing, too,” wrote anonymous user Dark Twin in he
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Sex
How’s That For You? This Is What Sex Actually Feels Like
The first time I had sex, I was so fixated on the fact that I was finally, actually having sex that all I could think of to say was, “oh my god, we’re
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Erika W. Smith
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Molly Longman
LGBTQ+
Say More Than Gay: How LGBTQ-Inclusive Education Can Save Lives
My high school textbooks didn’t say “gay.” I grew up in California during the early 2000s, at a time when my biology and psychology classes either st
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Sam Ames
Health News
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Molly Longman
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In The Era Of Online Dating, Why Are We Still So Obsessed With Me...
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Eliza Dumais
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I’m A Single Mom — & I’m Dating For The First Time Since I Lost M...
In 2008, I married the love of my life. In 2019, I downloaded my first dating app. In the years in between, I built a life with a man who made everything b
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Elaine Roth
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Ahhh the TikTok algorithm: She’s mysterious, all-knowing, chaotic — and perhaps more supremely influential than we realize. In the time sin
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Eliza Dumais
Consent Canada
Consent & Pleasure Go Hand-In-Hand. Why Doesn’t Anyone Talk...
There’s far more to consent than “no means no” — not that you’d know it from what we’re taught in sex ed. Curricula in Canada, the U.S., and wo
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Farrah Khan
Consent Canada
We Walked Out To Save Sex Ed, But Our Fight Was Just Beginning
There’s far more to consent than “no means no” — not that you’d know it from what we’re taught in sex ed. Canada’s cu
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Rayne Fisher-Quann
Sex Re-Education
Sex Re-Education
“Why didn’t they teach us this in class?” No matter where you went to school, your sex education curriculum probably didn’t address the things that
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R29 Team
Wellness
Sex Education In The United States Is Broken, But It Doesn’t Have...
Maddie* remembers walking into a sweaty, small practice gym one morning at Xavier High School, a private Catholic institution in Cedar Rapids, IA, for a un
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Molly Longman
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