With Thanksgiving right around the corner and the December holidays looming just beyond, the pressure is on to finalize plans to celebrate—including deciding whether or not to bring your current partner along to meet the fam.
Kaylee Wolfe is a sexuality educator, advocate for survivors of sexual and relationship violence, clinic escort, and birth doula. She thinks you should get tested.
Balls. Nuts. Nads. Bollocks. Stones. Cojones. Whatever you wanna call them, this week we’re talking about testicles.
This week’s column was supposed to be about the alarming increase in rates of certain sexually transmitted infections recently reported both nationally and in Maine. I wanted to write about how transmission happens, what prevention looks like, how treatment works, and how this is a crisis of…
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During my senior year of high school, I decided that I was ready to have penis-in-vagina sex for the first time. Since I wasn’t on birth control, my then-boyfriend and I opted to spring for spermicidal condoms. Neither of us wanted a baby, so why wouldn’t we want some extra sperm-killing pow…
Not every sex question takes a whole column to answer. This week, I’m reaching into a stack of miscellaneous questions from past events and workshops to bring you a rapid-fire rundown of three queries.
I first tried shaving my pubic hair the week before my sixteenth birthday. I had warmed up to the idea of some light under-the-pants shenanigans with my then-boyfriend, and from the brief glimpses of mainstream porn I had seen so far, I had gleaned that a prepubescent party zone was a prerequisite.
Kaylee Wolfe is a sexuality educator, advocate for survivors of sexual and relationship violence, clinic escort, and birth doula. She thinks you should get tested.
In 2012, the CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men in the United States were victims of contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner. This means that whether you know it or not, every day that y…
A few years back, I was chatting with some friends about sex (shocker) when one of them confessed a half-joking, half-earnest secret worry: “Do you ever wonder if you’re actually good at sex? Like, what if for all the time you’ve been doing it, you’ve been doing it wrong, it’s just that no o…
Dear Ms. Wolfe,
Would you please address in your column a question I have about oral sex. I am a 52-year-old male, married. Neither my wife or I have much experience with sex. We have only been with each other.