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Social disconnection is very real this holiday season, as we round out a full nine months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recent studies have shown that due to COVID-19, there have been increases not only in isolation measures like social distancing, but also widespread increases in anxiety, loneliness, and insomnia. Remember that the loneliness, grief, and…
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We’re roughly nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic and our “new” normal isn’t feeling so new anymore now is it? Instead of going about our daily routines of our old lives, we’ve upended them entirely. Now, we’re at home googling the best mask brands, while many are working through the tremendous loss of our loved…
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Covid-19 has made staying sex positive challenging in 2020, because physical contact is now negative. How is a person supposed to enjoy having sex when you’re supposed to be six feet apart from people, minimizing touch? Add disability into the equation and you have a recipe for further isolation and loss of intimate citizenship —…
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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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“We make the rules up.” I said this statement over and over as I biked past a barricaded police block on a bright and warm Saturday afternoon, on my way to meet my first date in seven years. Normally I’m never that nervous for a date; much less if it’s with a stranger from the…
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The global pandemic known as COVID-19 or coronavirus, has been referred to as “the ultimate equalizer,” affecting people regardless of their background. But people who existed at the intersections of oppression prior to the pandemic are still living under those same (if not worse) conditions. For example, transgender people in DC have found that the…
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We here at Sexual + Being are always encouraging safe, informed, intimate interactions with partners new and old. But in These Corona Times, we must be even more diligent. The safest way to reach your climax right now is by carrying yourself to the top of the mountain, so to speak. Depending on your living…
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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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After more than eight years in the field of STI education and activism, I can talk a lot about the challenges of living with the herpes simplex virus (HSV). And there’s one major thing I’ve learned: The majority of problems related to living with HSV have less to do with the virus itself and more…
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Life in the time of COVID-19 is not something any of us were prepared for. In just a few months, we went from navigating our daily routines to reconsidering every single part of them: how we eat, how we socialize, how we workout, and, of course, how we have sex. But how can we even…
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