About 20 million women in American complain of having really, really painful sex. Often, the discomfort extends to daily life. Many women have problems sitting, riding bikes and even wearing jeans. One woman described sex as “having sandpaper rubbed on an open wound.” A lot of these women get really effed up emotionally because docs […]
Imagine this: You’re a young, single woman out in the jungle that is the urban dating world. One fine summer night, you meet a good-looking guy at a rooftop party. “Hello,” he says, as you push your way through the crowd toward the makeshift bar. “Do I know you?” you ask. “No, but I’d like […]
Guys, close your eyes and imagine this. You’re just trying to go about your life and do your thing, but there’s this chick who keeps tapping you on the shoulder to tell you really dumb, childish things. She’ll say stuff like, “Hey, your shorts are stupid, and you look like shit in them.” When you tell […]
A new study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine has shown that condom use doesn’t, in fact, reduce feeling in the penis during sex. Sorry, bros! The study worked with 500 heterosexual American men aged 18-24 and found that those who cited condom use as an obstacle to maintaining an erection were more likely to be suffering from general […]
Even in our increasingly progressive climate of sexual freedom and liberation, female sexuality is still underestimated and stigmatized. The combination of a history of repression, massive objectification, and the statistics of sexual violence, create discomfort around women openly displaying their sexuality. So imagine a context in which women have unlimited access to sexual expression, and the […]
Have you read the news? A blizzard is coming to the East Coast, y’all! What could go wrong with lining up a blizzard buddy? Oh man, so many things can go wrong. So many. Maybe he neglected to tell you his four roommates will be there too. Maybe his wi-fi is on the fritz because he forgot […]
Ah, cunnilingus, the great divider of the boys from the men within the heterosexual world! These boys look like men. They sound like men. They might even have 401Ks and good relationships with their mothers. But, they are also the ones who think that sex works like it does in blockbuster movies, wherein women are always […]
China is finally coming out of the darkness of sexual repression, basking in the glow of lost virginity and doing whatever else it is you do when, as a society, you become more open, sexually, that is. In all honesty though, China has been becoming freer ever since the blessed death of the sexually-conservative Chairman Mao in the 1970s. […]
I’ve heard time and time again that gettin’ jiggy with it in the pool is fabulous, so I decided to test the waters. To my dismay, I found that pool sex actually kind of sucks—the friction from the H2O doesn’t make for very smooth sailing. The uncomfortable experience didn’t bring much pleasure, but it did […]
