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Masturbation: It’s Even Better Than You Think
While it’s not entirely clear why, Australian researchers speculate a lowered risk of prostate cancer in men who masturbate more, and there are other benefits as well: a better sex life, a stronger immune system, and a better mood overall, for example. What’s not to love about a little self-love? …
New Year’s Resolutions: No Regrets
If making resolutions for the upcoming new year are important to you, take a moment to read this article, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying on Uplift. Focus on friends, family and relationships should be at the top of your list of New Year’s resolutions. No regrets! …
Sex for Christmas? Maybe.
Dr. Nikki Goldstein, sexologist and author, discusses why giving sex as a gift in relationships isn’t always what it seems to be. Sex is wonderful, and sex on Christmas? Sure thing – just don’t give it as a gift. Read what Nikki has to say about it! …
Sex Positive Parenting
Perhaps no other topic is as delicate when it comes to parenting than sex: sex-positive parenting is all about teaching appropriate boundaries and laying a comfortable foundation for discussion for the years to come. Lea Grover lays out simple and clear tactics for sex-positive parenting in this inspiring Huffington Post article. …
Making Jealousy Work For You
This fantastic podcast from Pleasure Mechanics addresses a topic we all encounter in relationships: jealousy – and how to make this natural emotion work for you by exploring its four primary sources: posessiveness, feelings of lack of deprivation, envy and fear of change. …
Hugging is Good For You.
Science says our bodies react to hugs like they do to many drugs. Hugging has been scientifically proven to reduce stress and heart rate, produce oxytocin (the “love” hormone), enhance our immune systems and more, and that these benefits begin when we’re babies. …
Tantra or Porn – what’s your flavor?
Learning how to be intimate is a deep, rich and heart centered process of opening up vulnerability within oneself and with another. Porn on the other hand, offers a very different form of sexual gratification. What is your flavor? …
Nine Kinds of Vaginas
Who knew there were so many kinds of vaginas? “The best lovemaking begins with loving yourself” says Athena Lund, a healer and life coach from Boulder, Colorado, who focuses on sacred sexuality. Here, she explains the 9 types of vaginas as presented in the teachings of tantra. …
The Invention of Monogamy
Where did monogamy come from?
Monogamy has a long and very interesting history. Check out this well-researched comic series on The Nib from Isabela Rotman and Sarah Mirk about the invention of the concept and how it has been a part of many cultures around the world throughout history (or not!). …
Normalizing Sexuality: Permission to Be Ourselves
Sex is more satisfying and fun when you can show up fully as yourself and let go of worrying about what you look like or what you think you should look like in bed. This wonderful series of real photos highlights the natural beauty of women experiencing pleasure. Thanks to photographer Marcos Alberti and to all the women who participated. Permission to be ourselves! …