Toward the end of a bad relationship, I started feeling depressed immediately after orgasming. I later learned this isn’t uncommon—and women deserve to know why. The first sign that my three-and-a-half-year relationship was over was that we stopped making love. We didn’t stop having sex (though our passion had definitely cooled), but we stopped having […]
All your burning postpartum sex questions, answered. The first thing most women think about after having a baby is not usually sex. But at some point in the postpartum period (or maybe while they’re still pregnant), many women start pondering the mechanics of sex after having a baby, and it isn’t always an easy thing to picture. Physically […]
Pain during sex isn’t totally uncommon—we’ve all felt the cringe that follows not using enough lube. Around 12 to 16 percent of women report consistently painful sex, says Deborah Coady, M.D., a New York City ob-gyn and author of Healing Painful Sex, and there are many more who experience periodic pain. If you do have any pain […]
“It was a combination of not great money and a bad storyline for Samantha” a source told E News. We all cried into our cosmos a little when Sarah Jessica Parker confirmed there won’t be a Sex and the City 3 movie, despite rumors of a working screenplay. Things got even sadder after people started accusing Kim Cattrall, who plays Samantha, […]
Spoiler: There will be new relationships Many are applauding Netflix’s hit series Sex Education, streaming now, for accurately and sensitively portraying sex, relationships, and identity. We’ve here praised it for showing that young women can—and should—demand good sex. The show, which focuses on a nerdy teen boy whose mother is a sex therapist, was so popular, in […]
Who doesn’t get a little turned on when their partner joins them in the shower? The cascading water, the steam, the delicious aromas wafting through the air, and the spanking-clean, naked skin are total aphrodisiacs. But let’s be real: Shower sex ain’t easy to pull off. All the same things that make it so hot—the […]
It’s totally normal to have sex fantasies. These are 15 of the most common ones—plus some tips on how to bring them to life. In a post–Fifty Shades era, we’re increasingly encouraged to discuss our sex fantasies out in the open—or at least own up to them in our private lives. Taboos are eroding, sexual norms are […]
Then I Realized That’s BS. “Oh, we don’t need a condom,” my new lover informed me the first time we hooked up. Delicately, he explained that he couldn’t actually finish inside a woman—vaginal sex just didn’t do it for him. “Well, you gotta wear one anyway,” I said, trying to hide my skeptical reaction. “Even […]
Experimenting with someone of the same sex is (thankfully) less taboo than it’s ever been. And according to a survey from the sex toy company Adam and Eve, 30 percent of women have done just that. (And 19 percent of men surveyed said they’ve experimented with other men.) While this survey didn’t ask respondents whether they identify […]
