Sex

Making friends in college can be difficult enough, let alone meeting a potential partner. Regardless of what you're looking for — a one-night stand, a friend with benefits, casual dating, or a committed relationship — finding that special someone on…

If, like me, you keep seeing those "I armor up" commercials while binge-watching Broad City on Hulu, you might be curious about how Nexplanon works. Just how effective is Nexplanon, the birth control implant that goes in your arm? According to the…

Like many college students, when I moved into my dorm freshman year, I was almost immediately warned about hooking up with someone on my floor. My building was co-ed, and four guys lived directly next door to my suite of six girls. We had barely…

You know that unexpected noise that sounds like flatulence, but mysteriously comes from your vagina? Yup, I’m referring to the infamous queef, which is (unfortunately) also known as a vagina fart. While it may cause you to pause briefly during a…

It's the most wonderful time of the year: the start of a new semester. While sitting in seminars for hours at a time might not be the best part of moving back to campus, there are certainly other things that make college worth it — making new…

The entertainment industry has presented the "friends with benefits turned long-term relationship" narrative as the modern day love story. Don't get me wrong, I love movies like Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached, but those movies have…

Sex is undoubtedly one of the most intimate acts you can share with someone, in addition to being an incredibly vulnerable experience. While there’s the potential for some beautiful, blissful moments — whispered secrets, tender kisses, those three…

I wouldn't say I'm the most adventurous girl when it comes to sex. I'm open to trying a good amount of things once, and then never again if it wasn't for me. When it comes to threesomes, I don't think I'm cut out. I'm super possessive of the people…

If you know me, you know I am persistent. I’m persistently social: If I’m throwing a party, you better believe I’ll be sending you an email, a text, and a Facebook and Paperless Post invite. I’m persistently creative: I make a living as an author, a…

Deciding when you're ready to have sex for the first time is a deeply personal decision. It should go without saying that there is no "right" or "wrong" time for two consenting people to do the deed. As with most things, both sides of the argument…

One of our biggest flaws as human beings is our constant need to compare ourselves to others. We do this in every realm of our lives. We compare our careers to those of others, we compare our friends to those of others, we compare our relationships…

I can't really remember whether I heard this quote from a friend or from a movie, but I once heard the sensation of an orgasm being described as "letting out a sneeze very slowly after your nose had been tickling for awhile." I thought that was…

Recently, I noticed people with nipple piercings seem to discuss incorporating nipple stimulation into their sex life more than those without their nipples pierced. This made me wonder, do piercings make your nipples more sensitive? It's always fun…

There are a lot of misconceptions about sex out there. This is a result of a lot of different societal factors — like the fact that only 13 states in the U.S. require their sex ed to be medically accurate, and that there's a lot of shame surrounding…

Years ago, a friend raged into my apartment with bad news: the guy she had been hooking up with had given her an STI. She knew he was seeing other people, but he had just written her a lovey-dovey email from his business trip, asking about her…

The memory is cemented into my brain. I'm in a dark, candle-lit room that reeks of lavender and sweaty sports bras. My body is contorted into a bridge pose, and I'm surrounded by fellow pseudo-yogis wrapping up their final flows. I close my eyes,…

For anyone who isn't familiar with the hit teen drama Pretty Little Liars, do yourself a favor and binge-watch it with haste, because the tea is hot. Sex, betrayal, and the most intense high-school drama mystery — what's not to love? At face value,…

You've heard of ghosting, zombieing, and breadcrumbing. Well, it's time to add a new entry to the dating dictionary: fishing, a situation in which someone will reach out to multiple people to see who's down to hook up, wait for responses, ignore…

I don't know about you, but my middle school and high school sex education classes consisted of us girls being taught that we were like "flowers." We were given three strict rules: Nothing below the neck, nothing laying down, and nothing comes off.…

There are surely things that are generally universally agreed upon to be sexy, like a passionate kiss. But I wondered if there are unique characteristics that make a person sexy that vary from person to person. For me, one of the sexiest things…