(That Sex Education Never Could) There are twelve girls sitting on the floor. One of them is miming something with unusual objects- a hair clip, a bottle of glue, a tube of lotion. Everyone is roaring with laughter. This was a scene from my hostel days in high school. The [...]
Anyone who wears bras on the regular knows the liberating freedom of coming back home and yanking that bra off. For a long time, this was something I looked forward to- returning to my room after a long day, feeling the sweet relief of unhooking my bra and standing with [...]
Young people today are faced with a unique contradiction when it comes to sex and sexual experiences. On one hand, an older generation of parents, mentors and teachers largely believe that pre-marital sex is wrong, and that young people should not express their sexuality in any way at all. We [...]
And why it’s so easy to assume that I’m straight “Oh you’re bi? So like, you’ve had girlfriends?” “Um... not really. At least not yet.” “Ah, but you must have slept with women right? Made out at least?” “...Nope?” “Come on, can you even really call yourself bisexual then? You [...]
And what that says about a sexually repressive culture It’s well past midnight, and I’m going down the dark rabbit hole of frantic google searches and WebMD pages. With the modern day availability of the internet, anyone who is overzealous about their health can relate to this feeling all too [...]
And that’s pretty cool, so why don’t people talk about it more? I didn’t know what the clitoris was until I was seventeen years old and in my first year of college. Seventeen! Which meant I had spent a good part of my teen years not knowing what pleasure felt [...]
