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In March 2021, we focused on women. Like usual, right? But this March — and the preceding year — was anything but normal. We’re officially one year into a pandemic the likes of which none of us alive has ever seen before and the strain is really showing at all of our seams. On that theme,…
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February is about two things: Black History Month and Valentine’s Day! And this February, we celebrated both. We talked about Black Love, relationship alternatives to monogamy, how sex positivity fits into Black Lives Matter, and we threw in some info about PEP, too, as a bonus. Give ’em a read, follow us on IG and…
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Welcome to the end of the first month of 2021, y’all! And what a month it’s been. January took a look at the pandemic and politics and the many once-in-a-lifetime moments of 2020 and basically said, “Hold my beer.” But amidst the insurrections and inaugurations, we at Sexual + Being have been over here pumping…
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While we at Sexual + Being firmly believe that trans lives should be celebrated (and trans deaths mourned) every day of the year, we’re one hundred percent here for the annual Trans Day of Remembrance. This year, we recognized the violence faced by trans women with a moving piece by writer Naomi Kanakia. We also…
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This October, we at Sexual + Being got a little spooky sexy. We talked about kink and role-playing and how to have a COVID-safe sexy Halloween. We also touched based with our friend Murray Penner, a face of our U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable) campaign and a person who has lived with HIV for a long…
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Autumn is a time of transition and this September, as the air started to cool, we turned inward. We explored what truly great sex education could look like. We took an intimate journey into the home gallery of one woman’s 30-year career in erotic art. We interviewed Kenya Troutman at the DC Department of Public…
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August was hot, hot, HOT! And we’re not just talking about the temperature. Don’t miss our tips for mind-blowing blowjobs, follow us on Instagram and Twitter, and then check out these top social posts for July. 1. We danced along to WAP, the sex positive bop of the summer! 2. We talked about the right way to…
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Growing up, Nichelle Brunner thought she’d never have sex. In the pre-social media age, she saw no representations of fat women being desired, anywhere. But as an adult, she’s a proud, Black, queer, fat woman — and she’d definitely doing it. Here, Nichelle talks about people who would have sex with her but shame her…
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June 5th is HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day! Innovations in HIV prevention and treatment have transformed the way we talk about HIV, and we want to honor and celebrate long-term survivors. People with HIV can live long and healthy lives and we want to celebrate that! Our video contributor, Murray Penner, is a #UEqualsU and…
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Look, we all know there’s only thing anyone can talk about right now: the COVID-19 pandemic. But because this is a sex positive sexual health site, you know we had to bring it back to the bedroom. (Or the living room, or the kitchen, or the bathroom. We don’t judge, as long as you stay…
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