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Pain and Pleasure in Pregnant Disability
Pain and Pleasure in Pregnant Disability Pregnancy was a strange, surreal experience for me. As an autistic person with a history of body dysmorphia and disassociation, I hadn’t ever been on familiar terms with my own body. Pregnancy amplified this feeling many times over. My body felt unknown, unpredictable, and not my own. During my second pregnancy, I became disabled. I had known chronic pain of various kinds for years – migraine, back spasms, sciatica, joint pain – but these had been less of a daily barrier until now. My joints, already hypermobile, were now so unstable that people sat up in alarm to hear them pop out and slide…
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Lingerie and Autism
When you are on the Autistic spectrum, however, things become a little bit more complicated, especially when it comes to clothing and a state of undress.
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Adjusting to My Sexual Body with an Ostomy
I knew from an early age that it was a possibility, but nothing could have prepared me for waking up from surgery with an ileostomy*. I spent a total of one month in the hospital, and it took nearly two months before I could independently walk and care for myself again. This was a massive shift for me, as I had never struggled with mobility before the major surgery that left me with this permanent medical device. Until some form of normalcy in my life resumed, my sex life was the last thing on my mind.
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You don’t have to masturbate. The pressure of pleasure.
Masturbation is put on a pedestal, something that everybody obviously wants to do. Something that is almost synonymous as chilling out, getting work done or having 'fun'. Masturbation is also everywhere. Think for a moment, count how many times you've seen or heard about masturbation this week, can you count on one hand? Two? Probably not.
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5 Things You Can Do To Enhance Your Masturbation Time
Let's talk about masturbation. The majority of us do it, yet it's still a hugely taboo topic that we don't tend to talk about openly and freely. Having sex with others is cool but the concept of spending time making ourselves feel good? Heck no! Although over the years, especially with the rise of online influencers and brands bringing sex and masturbation to the front of people's minds and making us more aware of how normal it all is, has definitely helped its taboo status. Masturbation is a normal and healthy part of life.
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Relearning Pleasure as an Autistic Woman
There was always something else underneath, something that messed with my brain for a long time; ‘pleasure’ was sort of off limits.
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I went to a sex blogging conference! Eroticon 2018 Vlog [Video Transcript]
Day one of the conference. I survived the meet and greet last night. I actually talked to people, wasn't as bad as I was expecting as always. However, lost my voice, losing my voice a little. As you might be able to tell from my now huskier sounding dulcet tones.
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ElectraStim Axis Unboxing and First Impressions [Video Transcript]
Today we have the Axis by ElectraStim. ElectraStim very kindly gave me this to review, and I am very much looking forward to reviewing it! We can both crack into this together and have a look. I'm just going to hopefully get some scissors. Do I have scissors? No, but I have a pen that I'm going to break it.
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Buying Sex Toys 3: Types of Toys
There are a plethora of sex toys to choose from nowadays, and when you think about just how many there are it’s kind of intimidating. I’ve covered buying sex toys, and I've also covered the materials sex toys can be made from, but this time we’re going to discuss the different types of sex toys available to purchase.
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Vaginismus and I
I was sixteen, with my first partner, and terrified. There was no objective reason; My partner was loving and we had both mutually agreed the time was right, we’d done the research, had the equipment, and even secured time without my parents at home. The internet was a great ally. ‘Is your first time painful?’
