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A Queer Dietitian’s Guide to Eating for Anal Sex
Anal sex is just as much about what happens before it as what happens during it. To that end, keeping a healthy diet can make the act go much more swimmingly.

What BDSM Can Teach Us About Consent
It’s not all whips, chains, and leather. The kink community is leading the charge on consent education.

4 Important Things Everyone Should Know About HPV
The human papillomavirus is the most common STI, but people are still confused about how it works.

What’s the Best Kind of Lube for the Sex You Want to Have?
There are so many different lube and sex-play options. It’s important to know which lube is the most effective, safe, and fun for each occasion.

How Practicing Kink Helps Keep People with Disabilities Connected to Their Desires
Disabled activists explain how BDSM has helped them heal and grow.

Why Are We So Obsessed With Taboo Sex?
We often find the erotic in what we’re not “supposed” to want. Is there a science to the forbidden?

How to Shift Our Understanding of STIs Away from Shame and Toward Education
Language is a powerful tool in encouraging—or discouraging, if we’re not careful—young people to learn about sexually transmitted infections and protect themselves.

How Couples Can Give Their Sex Life an Annual Review
Keep your relationship healthy by evaluating what you’re not talking about and how you can make your sex life even better.

Rear Perfection: How to Care for Your Bum After Anal Intercourse
Preparation before bottoming is key, but your booty hole will thank you for taking good care of it afterward, too.

What If We Could Finally Cure Herpes? This Scientist Is on the Case
Keith Jerome, M.D., has spent the last decade working on "molecular scissors" that can slice a latent herpes infection into oblivion.