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The Safer Sex ProjectWhat is safer sex? We bring together clinical and practical data on STDs and their prevention, including information on identification and treatment, as well as social/cultural significance and stigmas.
Stirring Things Up: Safer Sex for Women Who Love Women -
The BDSM Project
BDSM—kink—fetish: what are they? How does one do it? And, most importantly, who’s doing it? The answer might just be staring back at you in the mirror.
The Godfather of Masochism: In Memoriam: Leopold von Sacher-MasochThe World AIDS ProjectMarking World AIDS Day, Sexis presents a series of essays that speak to the innate mistakes and inherent kindnesses of the human animal, our spirit of community, the necessity of anger—and the absolute power of hope.
The World AIDS Day Project: No Dominion
Recent articles
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Junk-Food Science
Most science reporters aren’t scientists; they’re talking heads hungry for site hits, ratings, readership and ad revenue. Even reputable journalists sometimes jump the gun when groundbreaking developments fall into their laps. How the media’s rush to scoop the competition promotes dangerously incomplete data as truth, and puts the public at risk.
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The Green Project: Mother Earth’s Mood Enhancers
There are hundreds of different ways to set a sexy mood, from scattering rose petals to scenting the room with incense or perfume… Fortunately, some of the most luxurious and romantic mojo maximizers are natural, eco-friendly, and even come in green, so you can always say that you had Mother Earth in mind.
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Mixed Massages: A Therapist Balances Healing With Sexual Expectations
In every city, hundreds of beautiful men and women are including sexual activity into their massage practice. Alternatively, could it be that they are involving massage in their sex work? Nudity, mutual touch and sexual stimulation are becoming common complementary features to therapeutic touch…. There’s always been a thin line between massage parlors and cathouses—if any distinction at all.
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Disclosing Trans Status
Every gender identity has its own rules for social interaction. It’s when you step into the larger world that etiquette gets a little tricky. You meet someone. You fall “in like.” Finding the right moment to reveal you’re transgendered requires tact, timing and, sometimes... a little luck.
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Tuesdays With Nina: Overcoming Negative Conditioning from Religious Training
When you’re raised in a very conservative environment, it often throws a monkey wrench into your sex life. Thankfully, you can overcome early sex-negative training and learn to embrace a robust means of healthy sexual expression.
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Sex & Culture & The Pill
Today, women take contraception for granted. Many even consider having to take a daily dose a chore. In response, a proliferation of once-monthly, and even once-quarterly forms of birth control have flooded the marketplace … but it wasn’t so long ago that sex minus fertility wasn’t an option—even if you were married. How the introduction of one little pill changed the modern world.
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The Girlfriend Game: Can I See Some I.D.?
Lesbian? Gay? Bi-curious? Straight. Sexual identification isn’t always etched in stone. Sometimes, you can’t tell who the players are, even when you have the scorecard.
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Is this a joke? No. No, it’s not.
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Capturing the Face of Orgasm: In & Out with Richard Lawrence, Founder of Beautiful Agony
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Mr. Sexsmith’s Other Girlfriend: The Stars and Sky of New York
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The of Eroticism of Skin
You could say skin holds a certain magic that’s frightened us and attracted us since forever, right from the very beginning.
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Tuesdays with Nina: Communication & Generosity
Who is responsible for you having a happy sex life? Hint: It’s not your partner. Nina explains that without a healthy emotional state, good communication, and mutual respect for one another, no amount of bedroom acrobatics will save a bad sex life.
Sexual Health & Well-Being
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After all, some things just don’t need to remain a mystery
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There’s more to it than "me see, me want!"
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Relationships don’t grow on trees, and neither does a happy sex life.
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Gender is…whatever you want it to be.
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How to get it on without getting it too risky.
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Here’s to good health – and even better sex.
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Sex, like cheese and wine, ages better than you may think.
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Sex permeates everything, especially when it comes to pop culture.
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Your biggest sex organ isn’t the one between your legs…
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Get off by getting your kink on!
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What can your sex life do for the planet?
Buyers Guides
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Sometimes, it really IS all about the O and nothing else.
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A man’s best friend doesn’t always have to be his hand!
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Proving the fact that sometimes its a very good thing to be anal-retentive.
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BDSM + toys + you = a spanking good time!
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From harnesses to dildos, we’ve got answers for nearly every question.
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And anything else we can think of…
