Sexualities, Gender, and Relationships

Parvathy Gopakumar shares the dating challenges she faces as a person with a prosthetic hand.

Helpful tips ease the process of considering and beginning gender-affirming care.

How do you tell a crush, date, romantic⁠ interest, or current partner⁠ that you are intersex? This advice can work for any type of relationship⁠.

An intersex writer offers these starting points for finding healing, pleasure, and desire despite the stigma and pain that often accompany being an intersex person.

Masturbation not only feels good; it can also benefit our health, from better sleep to relief from menstrual pain.

Ideas about masturbation have changed through time, from the origins of stigma through the late 20th century when scientists recognized solo sex as a normal practice.

Purity culture spreads a lot of falsehoods about virginity. What is true and what isn't?

Dispelling the myths, shame, and misunderstandings, here are the essentials of solo sex -- how (and why) to masturbate pleasurably and safely.

People socialized as women in particular deal with a lot of conditioning that can get in the way of orgasm. Here are a few ways to explore your orgasmic potential.

In this podcast episode, a married couple shares how they navigate their sexual and emotional relationship when penetration causes vulvovaginal pain.

Sexual choking involves blocking the airways for sexual pleasure. But there is no safe way to engage in breath play. Heather Corinna and Giselle Woodley discuss the dangers of choking, guidelines for BDSM and kink, and suggested alternatives.

Executive summary of a survey in which over 5,000 LGBTQ+ women shared their experiences of discrimination, finances, education, religion, gender and sexuality, sex, and relationships.