Since I’ve learned to masturbate indulgently and without shame, I’ve never had bad sex.
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Tag: body
Sid on Sex: Masturbation Is Self-Care
I learned about masturbation from a sex column in my mid-20s. With every orgasm my vibrator brought me, my heart grew…
Catherine Hernandez Is a Well-Spring of Body Wisdom
Each of us has one body to travel through this world in and, unfortunately, many of us have not been taught to love t…
Biking the Big Easy: How I was Freed by the Very Thing That Scared Me
Growing up, I was afraid of my body. My mother, who I have never seen break a sweat in my life, taught me that I was …
The Burning Season
Uncertain if she should stay close to home, Minoru goes off to work for a nonprofit in Thailand to pursue her passion…
Cindy Sherman and Femininity, Identity, and Female Representation
American photographer and artist Cindy Sherman established her decades-long career by focusing her work on a very spe…
Ida Rolf, a Biochemist and Inventor Of “Rolfing”
Ida Rolf was a biochemist and the inventor of Structural Integration, a form of soft tissue manipulation that aligns …
Surya Bonaly, the Only Figure Skater to Land the Flip on One Blade
French-American figure skater Surya Bonaly repeatedly defied the norms of body and race in the sport. She not only ma…
Nobel Prize Winner Elizabeth Blackburn’s Research on Slowing Down Aging
Molecular biologist and University of California, San Francisco professor Elizabeth Blackburn’s groundbreaking study …
A Poem About a Day, Musings on Perception
Does my experience of a thing have distinct characteristics, does it tap an essence universally understood? The taste…
Yoked: How a Homesteading Woman Reconsidered the Meaning of Bodies
In the 1980s, my girlfriend and I had stumbled upon an old farmstead, and soon we left Brooklyn with plans for making…
An Afternoon with Ballroom Champion Yulia Zagoruychenko
With her partner Riccardo Cocchi, Yulia Zagoruychenko is the current world champion in the Latin style of professiona…
What I Learned From My Adult Acne
As a teenager, I had a few breakouts here and there around my period, but nothing that couldn’t be treated overnight.…
Two Days in Tasmania: Diary of a “Body Landscape” Retreat
Last November, in the rugged west of Tasmania, 14 dancers from around Australia converged to participate in “Body Lan…
The Story of Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman
Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman, also known as Hottentot Venus, was one of two African women exhibited at freak shows throu…