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What do you do with your hearing aids during sex? If you keep them in, avoid shower sex or watersports; if you take them out, figure out alternate ways to communicate, possibly taking a cue from kink, writes Anna Pulley. Pulley also recommends choosing positions that minimize feedback and remembering that all sex has awkward moments sometimes:
“Sex is awkward. If you haven’t nearly concussed yourself on a headboard or accidentally elbowed someone in the genitals, then you probably haven’t had very much good sex yet.
No matter your gender, the biggest boner-killer is anxiety. If you’re constantly interrogating every little move so your lover doesn’t accidentally touch your hearing aid, you’re not going to be enjoying the sex you’re actually having. You can either acknowledge that a weird thing happened, laugh, and move on—or, you can ignore it and still move on. It’s up to you how you wanna roll with it, but I prefer to laugh, like a partner and I did together the time I thought she asked, “Do you want me to spit in your ear?” when she actually said, “Do you want me to whisper it in your ear?” The moment helped us bond—meaning it improved the sex we had.”
New York has introduced legislation to decriminalize sex work.
Thought experiment: what happens to love and sex if humans start to live for a really really long time?
Under Instagram’s policies, sex workers are experiencing financial exploitation and harassment.
Kink.com released documents intended to help address consent during porn shoots.
Post-masturbation clit numbness is temporary.
Anabel Gat discusses how to use astrology to improve your relationships at Vice:
“A person’s sun sign might speak to their general personality and ego, but healthy and happy relationships don’t stem from using someone’s horoscopes to make them like you, or from interacting with them based on what you think they will enjoy. A much more effective application of lover horoscopes is to use them to reflect on yourself in combination with the person you care about. Astrology can help us tap into the daily astrological weather and give us the tools to talk about empathy, boundaries, and generally just getting along.
So while we shouldn’t be trying to make anyone like us, lover horoscopes can help us develop our communication skills and learn about one another’s needs and boundaries, which makes all of our relationships better.”
