sexual history

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  • Heather Corinna

We get a lot of questions like this, so let's try and clear up the matter once and for all. With a majority of people with vulvas, if you were nosing around in there when they hadn't VERY recently given birth, you still wouldn't likely be able to tell that they have had infants. As reproductive...

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  • Heather Corinna

The membrane you're referring to is the hymen, also called the vaginal corona. When fully or partially present, the hymen consists of thin folds of tissue that partially cover the vaginal opening. However, the hymen is something that usually gradually wears away -- rather than "breaking" -- over...

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  • Heather Corinna

No, there is not. The only thing you can do is to ask your partner -- giving you're willing to be forthright and share the same information about yourself -- and take her word for it. If you're asking this because of concerns about sexually transmitted infections, understand that knowing how many...

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  • Heather Corinna

Sounds to me like you have some internal conflict here...or not. What I'm really hearing you say here is that you're just not really feeling it when it comes to sex yet. Not alone, not with your partner. I'm hearing you say that you're more interested in non-sexual physical affection right now --...

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  • Heather Corinna

I absolutely promise you that you did not become pregnant from kissing and clothed heavy petting. I promise. So, breathe. You know your periods aren't regular, so not having one this month, especially when you have PCOS, likely has nothing to do with pregnancy. But if you're seriously freaking out...

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  • Heather Corinna

The exact same way he can tell about you: by asking him. Then you take one another at your word. If you don't feel you can, that's another issue entirely. I'm not sure why he needs to have asked you any more than once, unless the two of you aren't dating exclusively, and are seeing other people. If...

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  • Heather Corinna

There's no "cherry" that needs popping in your vagina. Seriously. And virginity is a cultural idea or concept: it's not a physical state of anything. In other words, the bodies of "virgins" and the bodies of "non-virgins" are often impossible to tell the difference between. Sometimes that term...