Self care seems to be everywhere lately. There’s all this buzz about how fab it is for you and how exactly to go about doing it. The slower but more energizing pace of summer is the perfect time to practice …
CategorySex and Emotions
Pleasure in Chronic Pain: Simple Mindfulness Techniques for Better Sex
Do you ever find yourself distracted during sexy time? Maybe you’re in the moment, totally enjoying yourself when suddenly you start thinking about your to-do list. This is something almost everyone struggles with. Taking time for sex, pleasure, and self-care …
10 Benefits of Masturbation
Masturbation, self-pleasure, self-love, solo sex—whatever you call it!—often gets a bad rep. You may think of it as less important, feel embarrassed, or hide that you do it. After all, if you have an amazing relationship you shouldn’t need to masturbate, right?! (Wrong.) It’s …
12 Things to Turn You On
This post about things to turn you on was originally published March 2018. Text and images have been updated.
If you think back to be the best sex you’ve ever had, it probably involved emotional and mental preparation that started …
Fall Rituals to Feel Sexier
“Put your own mask on first.” “You can’t pour from an empty cup.” These days, adages about self-care abound. And for good reason: a recent survey found that “chronic stress is a national epidemic for all genders and ages, particularly …
Sex and Eating Disorders: A Conversation with August McLaughlin
When I met August McLaughlin at a conference in 2015, we bonded over being two of the only sexuality writers there. Later, we discovered we were sisters (her words) in something else too: having a history of an eating disorder …
How to manage the sexual & mental health side effects of infertility
My first job after college taught me how deeply the medical establishment’s stigma runs against mental and sexual health issues. I was administering a survey to cancer patients about seven different aspects of their health, including mental and sexual. While …
How to Make a Long Distance Relationship Work
My partner and I were in a long distance relationship from the time we met at 16 until we moved in together, 8.5 years later. The distance ranged from a 45-minute drive in high school to being on different continents. …
#askKait: How to combat fatphobia with a new partner
Anonymous asks:
…Do you have any advice or resources to help me further combat my fatphobia in the context of a new relationship? I want to ‘get over’ the (most-subconscious) thoughts and feelings about my partner being a bit overweight