anal sex Archive

Are You Getting “Behind” in Your STI Information?

  Our friends over at About.com have embarked on a blog carnival (as blogger Cory Silverberg points out, everyone loves a carnival). Their topic? “Shame and Silence Surrounding Bowel Symptoms.”

Don’t Get Your Safe Sex Info at the Movies

We talked about the sex scenes (no spoiler alert needed) after seeing The Kids are All Right, which we both liked and disliked for various reasons. Bronwyn and I work with HIV+ women, so we can’t help but discuss how sexuality is portrayed in movies, and what kind of safe sex messaging does and doesn’t play out. I think that anyone over fourteen can get cynical about messaging around sex when you watch movies, whether you work in the sex ed field or not.

Painful Sex? There’s Help for That

  Ah, summer. If warmer weather has you feeling frisky, and you’re considering a discreet romp in the sand, you may end up a little grainy in some unexpected places. Ideally, that’s the only discomfort you’re going to feel. Sex shouldn’t be painful, and if it is, there’s help for that. Does vaginal penetration hurt? [...]

Do you have a sexual “bucket list”?

My friend Cheryl just completed her first -and potentially last- marathon. She gave me all the gory details post race, and then wearily said, “Now I can cross that off my bucket list.” The bucket list concept has become a touchstone for things we’d like to achieve before we die. Do you have a sexual bucket list? Things you may be curious about and never have shared?

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