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- Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:00 pm
- Forum: Sex & Sexuality
- Topic: When You Don't Want to Have Sex (Yet. Or ever.)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4135
Re: When You Don't Want to Have Sex (Yet. Or ever.)
While I discovered my own sexuality very early and got comfortable with my body before I fully knew what exactly I was doing, I didn't feel interest in having sex with someone else until I had my first serious boyfriend, whom I am still together with. And while I have always been A-okay with sex by ...
- Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:38 am
- Forum: Sex, Culture and Politics
- Topic: Bikini Line Hair at the Beach?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 27019
Re: Bikini Line Hair at the Beach?
I have never shaved my pubic hair, ever, and I am here to tell you that nobody has ever seemed to notice when I was at the beach or swimming pool (and I go swimming a lot). I've had to deal with a lot of unfriendly, unsolicited attention in my life, especially while wearing my bathing clothes, but i...
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 1:40 pm
- Forum: Supporting Each Other
- Topic: Share Your Pregnancy Scare Experiences & Advice
- Replies: 45
- Views: 158575
Re: Share Your Pregnancy Scare Experiences & Advice
It's so reassuring somehow to find out that other people out there get pregnancy scares too... I went through a phase where I had this unfounded fear of being pregnant almost all the time, because my cycle was messed up and it could take very long between periods. My gynecologist explained why, I un...
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:44 pm
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: healthy relationships?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2158
Re: healthy relationships?
Hey there, this sounds like a complex subject that the wonderful staff around here can and very likely will give you good information on. Just a little bit of two-cents-worth from another user: I think an outside perspective is often helpful, because being in love can be kind of blinding in my exper...
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:19 am
- Forum: Bodies
- Topic: Tampon insertion: Multiple times, constant failure & anxiety
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2166
Re: Tampon insertion: Multiple times, constant failure & anx
Hello, just in case this is reassuring for you: It took me two years to get comfortable with tampons and in the beginning, I was convinced I'd never be able to get one in. My body, it turned out, is perfectly average - I just had to get to know it. The angle turned out to be different than I had ima...
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:04 am
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: Consent vs affirmation
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3763
Re: Consent vs affirmation
Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll check it out.
Again, thank you so much for taking the time to reply and for being so helpful and individual about it. It sometimes really helps to get an outside perspective.
Again, thank you so much for taking the time to reply and for being so helpful and individual about it. It sometimes really helps to get an outside perspective.
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:51 pm
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: Consent vs affirmation
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3763
Re: Consent vs affirmation
Thanks for your sympathy... I think the trickiest part for me is on the one hand being sympathetic and understanding of how my partner feels but at the same time taking care of myself. I know I won't really help him in any way by saying yes when I mean no or agreeing to something I am just not in th...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 4:01 pm
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: Consent vs affirmation
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3763
Re: Consent vs affirmation
Thanks, Heather, I think I do follow... And I'm laughing at myself so hard right now because "don't try to be your partner's therapist" is usually my standard advice to my own friends. Seems I'm one of those people who should learn to practice what they preach - but I couldn't see it, I th...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 3:27 pm
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: Consent vs affirmation
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3763
Re: Consent vs affirmation
We've talked about this quite a lot... He explicitly says he feels ashamed of feeling desire for me while I don't want to have sex. And then I say there's nothing to feel ashamed of, it's just like one person being hungry and the other not or one person wanting to go out and the other wanting to sta...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 3:14 pm
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: Consent vs affirmation
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3763
Consent vs affirmation
So I'm finally daring to ask for a bit of advice for myself... I am still in my first relationship. We've been together for years and I think it's going great, in bed and out of it. There's just one thing I am unsure how to handle: Quite often, it happens that he wants to have sex and I don't. My de...
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:31 pm
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: Your Wishes Around Parents and Sex
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4902
Re: Your Wishes Around Parents and Sex
I wish more parents were like my mother when it comes to their kids sexual lives and questions. We've had our problems, but at this part of being a mom, she was and is wonderful: Answered every question without judging or ridiculing me for wanting to know, always honest, straight-forward, matter-of-...
- Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:52 am
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: Do young people understand love?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3049
Re: Do young people understand love?
I think you can love at every age. Children love their parents (well, most children do), and that love is real, isn't it? As we grow older, we may understand love better and our relationship skills might improve, but I don't think being young and comparatively inexperienced makes your love less stro...
- Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:27 am
- Forum: Sex, Culture and Politics
- Topic: Fifty Shades: I feel alone
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4836
Re: Fifty Shades: I feel alone
Thank you for the reply. I just wanted someone out there to explain not just to me but to others that it's ok to like things that are bad as long as you realize that it's well bad. I needed that vent and to seek others. Curious Empath - what a wonderful name! If you ask me (and you didn't, I know, ...
- Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:14 am
- Forum: Gender
- Topic: What's your concept of your gender like?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 21481
Re: What's your concept of your gender like?
I like my gender. I just really love being a woman. I like my female body, I like having breasts and "lady parts" (sorry if that sounds prude...), I like getting my period, even. I feel comfortable around other women (as a rule - of course there are exceptions). I don't understand why some...
- Fri Jul 17, 2015 3:50 am
- Forum: Bodies
- Topic: What Makes you Feel Confident in your Body?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1967
Re: What Makes you Feel Confident in your Body?
- Exercise. Especially running. I don't do it to achieve anything in particular, don't care about covering a certain distance in a certain time or how well other people can do it, I just jog along to my favorite music and enjoy the feeling of my lungs expanding and my heart pumping and my muscles wo...