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I’m a Clinical Sexologist in private practice here in WA. I’ve been a practitioner of Sex Therapy and Relationship Counseling for over 40 years. Sex therapist and sex advice columnist. Books: tinyurl.com/bs3vsf2, tinyurl.com/bdhz8, tinyurl.com/4rw8wvyy

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How Alexander Skarsgård’s BDSM Scenes Were Crafted for ‘Pillion’ Introducing: the dom-com.

How Pillion’s BDSM Scenes Were Brought to Life with Care
— Intimacy coordinator Robbie Taylor Hunt on shaping the film’s most vulnerable moments with Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling.

www.elle.com/culture/movi...

07.02.2026 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shirley Chisholm was the 1st Black woman elected to Congress in 1968 & the 1st woman & 1st Black candidate to seek the Democratic prez nomination in 1972.

Her #CupOfJoe broke barriers as she fought for racial & gender equality.

#BlackHistoryMonth

07.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 545    🔁 213    💬 14    📌 16
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 — 👍 31440    🔁 13551    💬 594    📌 1612
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What Is It About Breasts?: The Psychology Behind the Attraction Is the attraction explained by fecundity, or our culture?

What Is It About Breasts?: The Psychology Behind the Attraction
— Is the sexualization of breasts a cultural artifact or a biological adaptation?

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insi...

05.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond Love, Still Connected On Being Aromantic, Neurodivergent, And Still Human - Gaysi Even when aromanticism is acknowledged in the A-spec community, it is often framed through the amatonormative belief that everyone falls in love Unfortunately, a majority of these ideas use restrictiv...

Beyond Love, Still Connected On Being Aromantic, Neurodivergent, And Still Human
—If sex can be a mechanism of violence, love can be too. Refusing to acknowledge abusive love doesn’t make it disappear, but creates shadows where harm is justified, denied, and repeated

gaysifamily.com/lifestyle/be...

04.02.2026 15:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Movement to Topple Obergefell Is No Longer Fringe Ten years after the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, advocates are rightly worried that the case isn’t closed.

The Movement to Topple Obergefell Is No Longer Fringe
— Ten years after the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, advocates are rightly worried that the case isn't closed.

crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-...

03.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Can I Never Find “My People”? Why can I never find my people? A deep look at loneliness, social effort, and why connection can still feel out of reach.

Why Can I Never Find “My People”?
— Understanding loneliness, social disconnection, and the struggle to build real bonds

goodmenproject.com/featured-con...

02.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Five practical tips for talking to your children about sexuality A U of A nursing professor and sex education researcher offers tips and resources to give Canadian parents confidence when speaking with their children about their sexuality.

Five practical tips for talking to your children about sexuality
— U of A study finds parents lack confidence, training and culturally appropriate resources for crucial conversations.

www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

02.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SF exhibit explores history of human sexuality The partnership with the Kinsey Institute is on view in The City through March 14.

New SF exhibit explores modern history of human sexuality

www.sfexaminer.com/culture/muse...

02.02.2026 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

01.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 67404    🔁 16162    💬 2585    📌 1840
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I'm delighted to be chatting about the birth of my #newseries over with @janbaywrites.bsky.social today.

Do pop by and say hello.

janbaynham.blogspot.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

@hodderfiction.bsky.social #cosycrime #cornwall #comingsoon

19.01.2026 09:38 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Improve Sex Education A new report encourages pediatricians to discuss sex, educate youth.

How to Improve Sex Education
— A new report spells out the evidence on teaching youth about sex.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evid...

31.01.2026 14:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Swoon: Why Heated Rivalry' Is So Compelling A story of passionate love between two men seems easily dismissed for its platform of sexy content, but not so fast: There are good reasons we find 'Heated Rivalry' compelling.

Swoon
— Why Heated Rivalry' Is So Compelling

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/at-f...

30.01.2026 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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iambossiofficial (IG) has a #CupOfJoe for every conversation where someone starts bending themselves into a pretzel to justify the unjustifiable.

Bring your rage. Bring your clarity.

30.01.2026 15:11 — 👍 383    🔁 233    💬 14    📌 12
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Absolutely!

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Trans+ History Week cuts through political rhetoric with free-to-download toolkit Publicis Groupe is one of Trans+ History Week’s and QueerAF’s sponsors.

Trans+ History Week cuts through political rhetoric with free-to-download toolkit
— Publicis Groupe is one of Trans+ History Week’s and QueerAF’s sponsors.

www.campaignlive.com/article/tran...

28.01.2026 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What I learned teaching sex ed as a teen, and why every school needs it | Youth Today A peer educator speaks about her experiences teaching peer-led sex education lessons.

What I learned teaching sex ed as a teen, and why every school needs it

youthtoday.org/2026/01/what...

28.01.2026 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Sweet and tender' or 'like abuse'? Why gay BDSM 'romcom' Pillion is dividing opinion Bold new film Pillion stars Alexander Skarsgård as a "dom" in a relationship with a timid gay man. It's been hailed by some as "charming" and "feel-good" – but not everyone agrees

'Sweet and tender' or 'like abuse'?
— Why gay BDSM 'romcom' Pillion is dividing opinion

www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

28.01.2026 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Veteran: "My nation is under attack."

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On this Holocaust Remembrance Day which marks the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp & remembers that 6 MILLION Jewish people & millions of others were murdered by state sanctioned violence,

I WANT TO REITERATE:

ABOLISH ICE

Before it abolishes us!

Resist tyranny!

27.01.2026 22:16 — 👍 968    🔁 492    💬 30    📌 12
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People from sexual minorities really do die younger, new data suggests New census-linked data reveals a stark UK health inequality: sexual minority people die younger and at higher rates than heterosexual people.

People from sexual minorities really do die younger, new data suggests

theconversation.com/people-from-...

27.01.2026 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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AI and sex, from attraction to addiction... Observatory of the sexual uses of AI - Ifop Group

AI and sex, from attraction to addiction…
Observatory of the sexual uses of AI

www.ifop.com/en/article/a...

27.01.2026 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to use the internet to figure out what you’re into in bed It's time to explore your desires...

How to use the internet to figure out what you’re into in bed
— It's time to explore your desires...

mashable.com/article/how-...

27.01.2026 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Longing for someone you barely know? Here’s how to get over them In this ‘behavioural addiction’, that person can come to dominate your mind and life

Longing for someone you barely know?
— A neuroscientist explains how to overcome limerence

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

27.01.2026 15:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Masturbation Replacing Sex in Relationships? In romantic relationships, masturbation may complement or compensate for partnered sex. New data suggests that it often fills a gap in unmet desire for men and women alike.

Is Masturbation Replacing Sex in Relationships?
— New research shows how self-pleasure functions in modern relationships.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

27.01.2026 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientists Say Go Ahead, Keep Gooning Researchers have found that it doesn't matter how frequently one watches porn; the reasons why is far more predictive of their sexual health.

Scientists Say Go Ahead, Keep Gooning
— As long as it's for the right reasons.

futurism.com/health-medic...

26.01.2026 20:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What do men really think of dating today? We asked 250 of them If you date men, it’s more than likely that you’re burned out and exhausted by them. But are they just as fed up as we are? We spent months finding out

What do men really think of dating today?
— We asked 250 of them

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

26.01.2026 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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NEVER FORGET THIS PHOTO.

THIS MAN WAS MURDERED BY A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE CURRENTLY OPERATING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

25.01.2026 20:25 — 👍 759    🔁 424    💬 80    📌 63

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