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Hi there! It sounds like you're describing a build-up of smegma* - that's dead skin cells mixed with oils and fluids produced by your genitals. The good news is that this is totally normal! Vulvas and penises alike can produce it. Regular, gentle washing should be enough to manage it. The clitoral...

There’s a lot of hype around orgasms, and they are an amazing part of sex for many people — but if you haven’t had an orgasm yet, that’s okay, too. And who could blame you when nobody really teaches us how to orgasm? Here are a few things to do if you want to start exploring your orgasmic potential.

A short, fast, sex ed summary of basic sexual anatomy.

First and foremost, no matter what we call it, if masturbation (or any other activity, for that matter) feels pleasurable, that’s the most important thing. Regardless of the names we give things to put them in categories, our bodies are so unique in the way they work that these tidy little...

Usually sexual anatomy is taught through the lens of reproduction, so it’s only about penises and vaginas, testes and uteri. Seen through the lens of of pleasure, sexual anatomy looks different.

A dildo -- or any other sex toy -- is not likely to do anything to the nerve endings within your vagina. In fact, it's completely likely there isn't a single thing wrong with you, and that nothing whatsoever has happened to your vagina to result in you feeling this way. As we've explained many times...

Here's a quick roundup for you. Oral sex is sexual activity between partners in which someone's genitals -- penis, testicles, vulva (vagina, clitoris, labia) or anus -- are being stimulated by someone else's mouth, lips or tongue. Names for some common oral sex activities are cunnilingus -- giving a...

The problem here isn't your body, nor that fact that most women are just not going to orgasm from intercourse alone. The problem is, as you stated, the fact that your partner seems only interested in an activity which results in his own orgasm and his pleasure. That's the big problem. That's what...

Orgasms will tend to last anywhere from a few seconds to less than a minute for most people, most of the time. Orgasms for people with vaginas often tend to last a bit longer than orgasms for people with penises -- but for people of all genders, we're still talking within an average of a few seconds...

You'll probably be surprised to know that this is a pretty common question with an answer that may be unexpected based on what we've been taught about how things "should" go. The first thing you really need to understand when you're thinking about this is that the vaginal canal itself is not...