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How masturbation plays psychologist in asylum.
Where I come from there is enormous cultural stigma attached to masturbation that writing this piece alone brings “dishonor” to my family.
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Sex and Chronic Conditions: Finding Pleasure Past the Pain
Sex and chronic illness are not completely incompatible, and your needs as an individual matter. What’s more, sometimes sex can cause a release of chemicals that decreases pain for a few hours afterwards. In short, effective sex is therapeutic, in more ways than one, so let’s look at how to make it a possibility.
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Vaginismus: When Your Body Won’t Co-Operate
Bodies are a peculiar thing. Sometimes we may want something from them so badly but they just will not co-operate. This is a fact that people with Vaginismus confront daily.
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Choosing happiness or choosing to look like an acne covered werewolf: the downside to birth control for PCOS
Something that surprisingly is not common knowledge but really should be is that the birth control pill is not just used for birth control. Birth control is health care.
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Obituary for My Period
I am now post-menopausal and proud, but I cringe when I remember the monthly angst I endured surrounding PMS and my period.
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Kink & Chronic Pain
I’d estimate that I’m in pain about 80% of the time. I have hypermobile joints that often end up out of place, meaning that I spend the majority of my waking hours experiencing at least one nagging ache, if not multiple aches of varying severity. On my worst days, I struggle to walk normally, I can’t open bottles or undo…
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Essure
What do you do when you've researched, fact checked, read reviews, and done your deciding, only to find out that your well researched choice was almost the worst possible choice? Well, for starters, you do everything you can not to die. Then you take all of that guilt and self loathing and you chuck it out the window because it…
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8 Tips to Have Sex with POTs – POTs and Sex Positions
The lighted headiness, the loss of balance, the blackouts, and moments of confusion. If you suffer from postural tachycardia as I do, then you know these symptoms can occur during the most inconvenient times. One of these moments is during sex sometimes, leading to a moment of slight embarrassments. At times I’ve laid in bed and jokingly said to my…
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Why TF am I in So Much Pain When I Ride My Partner?
I never suspected that the deep pain in my uterus during sex would be connected to my urinary incontinence too. Let me clear, missionary feels great, doggy style is fun, but cowgirl, faceoff or reverse cowgirl might as well have been a stick verberating my insides.
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How To Navigate Sex With an Anxiety Disorder
Sex is supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be a way to switch off and forget about the problems in your life whilst you spend some time wrapped up and lost in someone else, the sensations and the pleasure. It's supposed to get you out of your own head for a while. But when you suffer from an anxiety…
