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Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
+ Into car sex? Make it better by using the confined space to your advantage, making your own sex curtains for privacy, being smart about location, and strategizing your bedding:
“The car is not exactly an intuitive place to have sex. If you want to have sex in the front while laying down, how the hell do you deal with that front console? And if you want to have sex in the back, there’s just simply no way to lay down comfortably without fixing the curvature of those backseats. Invest in a pair of thick blankets, a pair of towels and two pillows to smooth out all those lumpy inconveniences. […] Make sure everything is within hand’s reach. Now all you have to do is wedge the towels between the gaps of the center console, lay your blankets over the towels and put the pillows above your head so the door handle doesn’t bruise you all up every time your partner gets a good thrust in.
You can improvise on how to use your bedding in the back depending on your vehicle, but the basic gist is to throw the towels in the dips of the seats and lay the blankets over the towels and position the pillows against the car doors. That should take care of the lumps, keep you level and create a plunge-safe zone for your partner’s head.”
+ If you only have 30 minutes for a date, try coffee, a car picnic, getting ice cream, walking your dogs, or visiting a library together.
+ Bikini crotch jewelry: this is a thing?
+ STIs are getting more intense, but so is research into them. A herpes vaccine, a potential gonorrhea vaccine, and a growing number of treatment strategies could all help, eventually:
“When fighting drug-resistant STI strains, the best way to go about treating them is to prevent their spread in the first place, and Zenilman underscores the importance of getting screened appropriately by someone who knows what they’re doing. Clinics that cater to a specific population are a great way to ensure high-quality care.
Because while vaccines and DNA testing show a lot of promise, they’re still in preliminary trials and are far from being standard.”
+ In the meantime, use protection for oral sex.
+ When should you share secrets with a partner?:
“According to Jane Greer, PhD, New York-based relationship expert and author of What About Me? Stop Selfishness From Ruining Your Relationship, there is no “correct” time. “Every relationship hits milestones at different times,” she says. “For many people, quality of time is very different than the actual length of time you’re with a person.” So in some relationships, the right time may be in two weeks. In others, it could be two months.”
