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How to Have Ease When Your Identity Changes?
One of the topics Jessica Graham, author of Good Sex: How to Get off without Checking Out, and I touched on during our LaidOPEN podcast
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What is your partner asking for when they say “I want to hear more words of affirmation?”
Valentines /Palentines day is an opportunity to reflect on your chosen way of giving and receiving love, as well as what your friends and lovers
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Writing As A Tool For Healing
I was recently interviewed for an article about sending platonic valentines this year. You can read that article here as well as read my additional thoughts
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What is Demisexual?
1. What does it mean to be graysexual? Most images in dominant culture ‘romcoms’ consider romance and sex to be an essential factor in choosing
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Benefits of Edging – The lost art of delayed gratification
Both men and women can edge, though often it is used in relation to men bringing yourself to the brink of orgasm and backing off,
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Self-care: What if you were your best friend?
How are you being tender with yourself during this distressing time? While sheltering in place, as we try to find ground and a new rhythm,
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Who Do You Want To Be?
Asking who do I want to be today, tomorrow and a year from now is always valuable to reflect on. I had a teacher, Brother
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Is Trauma A Life Sentence?
Trauma isn’t the province of an unfortunate few but the greatest public health crisis we face today. As a trauma survivor and therapist who has
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What is Sexual Freedom?
Sex is a paradox: How can something that’s the source of trauma also be a pathway towards transcendence? LAIDopen endeavors to answer this conundrum. In
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