“Put your own mask on first.” “You can’t pour from an empty cup.” These days, adages about self-care abound. And for good reason: a recent survey found that “chronic stress is a national epidemic for all genders and ages, particularly …
When I met August McLaughlin at a conference in 2015, we bonded over being two of the only sexuality writers there. Later, we discovered we were sisters (her words) in something else too: having a history of an eating disorder …
My first job after college taught me how deeply the medical establishment’s stigma runs against mental and sexual health issues. I was administering a survey to cancer patients about seven different aspects of their health, including mental and sexual. While …
My partner and I were in a long distance relationship from the time we met at 16 until we moved in together, 8.5 years later. The distance ranged from a 45-minute drive in high school to being on different continents. …
Minouschka asks:
…I’m fairly new to the sex game because I’m a late bloomer. One [guy] that I made out with wanted to mutually mastutbate. I was fine with it because I wasn’t gonna have penetrative sex with him on
