Sexual negotiation can be a difficult process. It’s about reading body language as well as verbal cues, and respecting the wants and needs of your partner. Schools need to teach it early and often.
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Romantic relationships are complex, but a foundation of friendship can help couples overcome their issues.
Vaginismus is one of the leading causes of painful sex. Many people haven’t even heard of it, but vaginismus is extremely common and it can have a huge impact on women, their partners and relationships.
The coronavirus pandemic affected many aspects of everyday life — including our sex lives. But erotic technologies are gaining wider acceptance as we look for ways to fulfill our desires for intimacy.
Forty years since Fame showed the vulnerability of performing arts students, we can still do more to protect them. As we resume physical contact, we can use performance to renegotiate safe intimacy.
Using cannabis may help reduce harms associated with chemsex, and provide a safer alternative for sexual and gender minority men to find intimacy and pleasure.
While online sex may not be a substitute for intimacy and touch, research shows there are many benefits. Technology can make sex more creative, for instance, and help people explore fantasies.
A study found the emotional dynamic between young heterosexual partners can have a measurable physiological effect on men, but not on women.
Many of us go through life in the hope of finding the ideal soulmate – our missing half. The reason may be deeply embedded in religious beliefs.
On social media, people increasingly feel the need to document every event and incident in their lives in public. What does that mean for romantic love?
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Research Fellow, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
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Chercheur affilié à l'Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’intelligence artificielle et du numérique (OBVIA), Université Laval
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PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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PhD Candidate, Psychology of Human Sexuality, Erotic Technology & Space Sexology, Concordia University
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Professor, Department of Sexology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Senior lecturer, Dept O & G, Monash University
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Adjunct Professor and Post Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences
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Senior Research Fellow, Division of Health Research and Social Work, Lancaster University; La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor, Film and Media Studies in English, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the University of Tennessee Humanities Center (UTHC), Tulane University; Institute for Humane Studies
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PhD Student in Human Development, Learning and Culture, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor in Film and Visual Culture, Nottingham Trent University
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Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Graduate student, Clinical Psychology, Université de Montréal
