Washington, DC's one-stop, comprehensive sex and wellness resource.
By: |
Pandemics are lonely. Many of us have seen and felt the impacts of an international health crisis in our own living spaces and social lives. Japan even created a new government position — the Minister of Loneliness — to spearhead national initiatives related to helping people cope through this time. I have definitely felt the…
Read more
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,…
Read more
With COVID-19 still dominating news cycles nearly a year after its onset, pandemic fatigue is real. It’s difficult to imagine an end to the closures, isolation, and threat of a rapidly evolving and deadly disease. But for some, the fatigue looks a little different. What happens when you wake up one day and realize an…
Read more
It’s been about 360ish days since my sons have seen the inside of a classroom, thanks to a global pandemic and regional stay-at-home orders. Tomorrow, my second grader returns to school – a year older and hopefully a little wiser – to finish out the year. My sixth grader is still home, waiting for the…
Read more
Well, it’s safe to say that this year didn’t go as anyone planned. With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States in mid-March, all our lives got turned upside down. And that includes the sex positive community. No more sex parties. No more casual sex. Really, barely any dating! But the flip…
Read more
By: |
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…
Read more
“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…
Read more
I am a medical assistant at an abortion clinic in Texas. It can be an emotionally wrought experience under normal circumstances, but during this pandemic it has only intensified. As Texans, our patients are up against their own unique set of obstacles to obtaining care. When the lockdown first went into effect in March, our…
Read more
May is our favorite time of year over here at Sexual + Being. As spring gets sprung and human animals start peeping out of their houses, it’s also the month that we celebrate International Masturbation May. To recognize this holy time this year, we talked about how to masturbate during a pandemic when you have…
Read more
By: |
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…
Read more
