Is anal sex like homeschooling? Eavesdropping on a human sexuality professor, Part 1
When I was in New York last month, I sat down for a chat with a friend of a friend who’s a professor of Human Sexuality, and we mused over about how anal sex is like homeschooling, the ethics of asking consent before you cry on a first date, and how the future of heterosexual marriage is all about gay marriage…
D-mannose: why don’t more people know about this natural UTI cure?
There I was last fall: in San Francisco, visiting a “friend” (wink wink ow my eye) and feeling a UTI coming on again. Friends, it happens. What with the timing of my flight back home and the weekend, I knew it’d be a least a week before I’d be able to see my doctor back in Seattle, and so I fired up Ye Olde Google and tried to see what natural home treatments I could find… and I learned about D-Mannose.
Screw the “romantic mystique” — let’s think about love
We base some of the biggest decisions of our lives on romantic love, and yet we resist actually examining love… for fear of overthinking it and somehow erasing its magic. FUCK THAT. We should all be thinking about this shit, since we all base huge life decisions on it. So, here’s some of my recent research…
6 not-at-all-sexy things to do to have more sex in a relationship
My sex drive has been at the centre of a few arguments and tears in the past little while. Right now, even if we wanted to do it more often, our weeks are so busy we don’t even have the time! But here’s what helped us have more sex in a relationship, even when we’re super-busy…
Condoms and coercion: a gynecologist searches for good, clean fun
…I was having casual sex, of course I was using condoms, that’s just what one does. Right?
I mean, while it was always my intention to use one, in all honesty, a condom did not always make its way onto a penis prior to its arrival in my vagina.
So, what’s wrong with me? I am a gynecologist! I have a Master’s degree in public health. If ANYONE knows better, it’s me…
I hate my vulva: The pressure to conform to unrealistic genital beauty standards
There’s a post on Medium that caught my eye the other day, Vulvas: Shapes, sizes and misconceptions, that I found quite interesting and even therapeutic…
This real-life eggplant emoji vibrator is a wet dream come true!
I just wanted to squeeze in a little afternoon delight right now, and let you know that the eggplant emoji — you know, the emoji that we ALL use because Japan hasn’t gifted us with a dick emoji (yet) — is now a real life vibrator. In real life!
I’m a woman with a “high” sex number and I’m okay with it
The very reason why I am hesitant in writing about the topic of my sex number is the very thing that I want to try and stop!
So, that is why I am going to share this with you because I want girls to be able to be comfortable in their own skin, regardless of their sexual choices…