Let’s Talk About (Not Wanting) Sex
I’ve partnered with the #righttodesire campaign to bring awareness to female Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder I’ve been talking about sex more this month than I think I ever have online, and it’s been really eye-opening to see how much other women are wanting to talk about it as well. Sarah and I announced we were doing an episode on low sexual desire a couple weeks ago and our podcast facebook community lit up with comments and questions from women who experience low sex drive. (If you want . . .
When “not being in the mood” isn’t just a trivial circumstance
I've partnered with the #righttodesire campaign to bring awareness to female Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder The tropes and jokes about women rebuffing their partner's sexual advances are as old as women reaching for a glass of wine as soon as their kids go to bed. It's funny because it's familiar. And yet, women seem to sort of accept the idea that it's fine for their sexual appetite to be low . . . that not wanting sex as often as our partners is just the way we're wired. Obviously, . . .
what I want you to know: when sex = pain (living with vaginismus)
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. This guest post is by an anonymous reader. I have never known sex without pain. From the very first time on our starry-eyed-virgins wedding night, until now several years later, I experience stabbing, gasping pain at any . . .