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When you don’t want to: Dealing with sexual assault
Sultry lighting, candles, smooth jazz… above all, nothing is more important to setting the mood than everyone involved wanting to be there doing what they’re doing. Consent is the voluntary agreement to engage in any sexual act—from kissing to touching to intercourse or anything in between. Consent (or, even better, enthusiastic consent! ) needs to […]
Coming soon: The LILETTA IUD
UPDATE: We’ve got more deets on LILETTA here . —More women in the United States are using IUDs now that at any time since the ‘70s. There are currently three IUDs on the U.S. market, and soon women who like their birth control easy, long-lasting, and in their uterus will have yet another option: A […]
March horoscopes: It’s spring…time to go at it like bunnies
March is the first month of spring and it holds so much promise—but it still needs time to warm up. (Funny…that could describe our sex life sometimes.) Read on to see what it has in store for you. Pisces Want to get lost in a new book? Craving a crush—or some hot sex—to distract you? […]
How to avoid 6 common condom problems
We’ve all been there. Things are heating up and you both know exactly what you want to happen next. One of you whispers those five crucial words: “Do you have a condom?” and the other produces one (or, better still, several) triumphantly. You’re happily getting it on when you realize the condom tore or slipped […]
Birth control top 5: What methods do health care professionals use?
Health care providers are just like us! Well, almost… A new study shows what methods of birth control family planning providers in the United States are most likely to use themselves and compares that to what methods are most popular among U.S. women overall. IUDs are big with providers, with 40% of those surveyed saying […]
Love lessons we’ve learned from the movies
Valentine’s Day is almost here and 50 Shades of Grey is in theaters. That got us thinking about love, movies, and what we’ve learned from a few classic rom-coms. Sure, some of these might not represent the best in cinema, but they’ve definitely gotten us through breakups, bouts of the flu, and those times when […]
Love your implant? Keep it for up to five years
Good news for people who love long-acting birth control… Research shows that the implant keeps working for up to two years longer than its FDA-approved length of use. The implant works for five years Right now, the label of the implant (a.k.a. Nexplanon, previously known as Implanon) says it can be used for three years. […]
Single no more? A fling with Invisible Boyfriend
Spending this Valentine’s Day all by your lonesome and wishing it weren’t so? Consider a tactic of the young: Create an imaginary friend—or in this case, an imaginary significant other with a bit of reality sprinkled on. Invisible Boyfriend and Invisible Girlfriend use your input to create an imaginary boyfriend or girlfriend who then communicates […]
4 apps for tracking your fertility
Practicing “Fertility Awareness” means more than just scoping out your fertile phases. It involves mapping out your entire cycle, including your fertile phases, your sorta fertile phases, and your not-so-fertile phases (every flavor of fertile, all phases). Following your cycle closely over time can grow fertility awareness into fertility knowledge. Identifying patterns in and across […]
Should I stay or should I go? What if only one of you wants to get married
It’s a classic deal breaker. Right up there with only one of us wants kids and we want/need to live in different places . Can a relationship survive when only one of you wants to get married? Maybe. A lot of magazine articles will flippantly say leave if one of you wants marriage and the […]
