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The Transformative Power of Sexual Fantasies

approx. 6 minutes reading time Let me be honest– even as a sex educator, I never thought sexual fantasy would actually improve my sex life. But it has, and I want to share that vulnerable experience with you. My name is Cassidy and I am non-binary, on the asexual...

Keep Our Light Shining: Queer Community Self-Care in Violent Times

Domestic Violence, LGBTQIA, Sex Therapy

We’re not okay. At a time when our biggest worry should be how to manage or avoid holiday season stress, our queer community is under attack. The Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs just before Thanksgiving now seems like it may be joined by a domestic terrorist...

Why We Should Talk to Young People About Kink & BDSM

Kink Coaching, Kink Friendly Therapy, Sex Therapy, Sexuality

approx. 5 minutes reading time Did your heart just seize up a little reading that title? It’s not surprising—we live in a society where we’d rather give kids fear-based “abstinence only” propaganda than comprehensive sex ed, where queer people who professionally...

9 Myths About Sex That Are Just Plain Wrong—and Harmful

Sex Therapy, Sexuality

approx. reading time: 10 minutes Imagine if you took a cooking class, but instead of learning to follow a recipe or how ingredients interact, you got a lot of lectures about the ways that different foods can be bad for you and how you should be fasting except when you...

RSVP Needed: Do You Have Responsive Desire?

Sex Therapy, Sexuality

Tell me if this sounds familiar: “It’s not that I don’t like sex, or don’t want to have it at all. It just takes me a while to get there.” We get sold a lot of lies about sexuality and how we “should” be sexual, and one of the more harmful ones is the idea that being...

First-Time Sex Shouldn’t Hurt. Let’s Stop Telling Young People It Will.

Body Acceptance, Sex Therapy

estimated reading time: 7 minutes It’s the trope of countless bodice-ripper romances, movies, and TV shows: the young, naïve flower of womanhood going trembling to her marriage bed or the backseat of a car, bracing herself for the searing pain of her brooding...

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The Transformative Power of Sexual Fantasies

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9 Myths About Sex That Are Just Plain Wrong—and Harmful

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First-Time Sex Shouldn’t Hurt. Let’s Stop Telling Young People It Will.

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