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The latest from our experts on all Sexology topics
Mind Relationships
Lust, Love, & Attachment
If you’re looking for the ‘science’ behind relationships and emotions, the first person you should google is Helen Fisher. She’s done amazing research into the biology of love and attraction. After extensive studies, Fisher believes humans evolved three core brain systems for mating and reproduction: lust, romantic attraction, and attachment. Depending on the person, love may
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Communication Education
LGBTQIA+ Term Definitions
The inclusive acronym for sexual identity is continuously evolving. Here is a comprehensive* list of LGBTQIA+ Term Definitions: *This list is neither comprehensive nor inviolable, but it is a work in progress toward those goals. With identity terms, trust the person who is using the term and their d...
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Education
Gender Inclusivity
Written by a Partner; With transgender people and issues coming into light, it is natural to wonder how to best be gender inclusive. Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity or expression does not correlate with their assigned sex. Transgender people include trans men, tran...
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Culture Pleasure
BDSM
For some, the subculture of BDSM is a mystery wrapped in an enigma that has people intrigued, confused or even repulsed. Mainstream media can be thanked for some of the feelings about the world of BDSM due to the misrepresentations of the culture that is prevalent in books and movies such as 50 Shad...
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Desire Education Pleasure
Understanding a Sexual Fetish
As a clinical sexologist, I specialize in helping people understand the roots of their sexual fetish and how to manage it either alone or with a partner(s). Over the years, I have come to understand how fetishes start and the reasons why people have them. My client base has been overwhelmingly male ...
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Culture Education
Tantra & Starting with Self
Starting with self: the inner masculine & feminine relationship influence on tantra & sexual intimacy The last half-century has seen much activity in the migration of ideas and practices from the East to the West. Chakras, transcendental meditation, and yoga are increasingly familiar to thos...
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Education Relationships
Polyamorous Relationships
The idea that you can be romantically, sexually and/or emotionally involved with more than one person at the same time is a radical concept in a society that, generally speaking, practices monogamy almost exclusively. That radical notion, however, is the basis of polyamory – a way of being intimat...
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