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Feeling self-conscious about your body during sex usually means part of your attention has left the bed. Instead of feeling touch and pleasure, you are watching yourself from the outside, checking how your stomach looks, whether the light is unflatte...
World Sexual Health Day falls on 4 September each year, established by the World Association for Sexual Health. The 2026 theme is "Every Body". Written as two words, it holds two ideas: every person, and the body they inhabit. It is one of ...
In the 7th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the gates of the underworld open and the dead walk among the living. The Hungry Ghost Festival, observed on the 15th night of the 7th month, is the most visible occasion within a month-long period of an...
Pornography can quietly reshape what you expect from real sex by training arousal toward constant novelty, flawless bodies, and performances that no partnered encounter actually matches. Over time that gap can dull excitement with a real partner, fee...
Jealousy in an open relationship is not proof that you are doing non-monogamy wrong. It is a normal emotion that shows up even for experienced polyamorous and open-relationship partners, and the people who do well are not the ones who never feel it. ...
Kink Curious: Your Playful Path Into BDSM is a live online workshop from Velvet Lips Sex Education, running Wednesday, October 7, 2026 from 8:00 to 9:30 PM EDT over Zoom. The 90 minute session is built for people who feel drawn to BDSM but have never...
A general couples therapist and a pregnancy-informed one will handle the same complaint, like a sudden drop in desire during the second trimester, very differently. One might default to standard relationship advice. The other will know that hormonal ...
Talk therapy alone often can't reach trauma that lives in the body, which is why survivors of sexual abuse frequently end up looking for someone trained in both somatic work and EMDR. The two approaches do different jobs: one regulates the nervo...
Trying to do addiction recovery and sexuality-focused couples work at the same time, without a plan for how they connect, tends to stall both. Most integrated approaches sequence the work: stabilize the addiction piece first, then bring sexuality and...
Not every therapist who names harm in the room is taking sides. Some situations genuinely call for a therapist to say, plainly, that one partner's behavior has caused damage. The difference between that and inappropriate bias comes down to consi...