There’s a common misconception that most men don’t enjoy going down on women, that it’s just something dudes put up with to please their partners and/or get their dicks wet. And really, who’s to blame us for believing that—especially when certain high-profile men have been shamelessly vocal about their disdain for eating pussy? Ahem, remember when DJ Khaled announced that he doesn’t go down on women? Or maybe you protected your peace by blocking this disturbing moment in history from your...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. My rom-com girlies may recall that back in the 2010s, the concept of going “no strings attached” burst into public consciousness when Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher starred in a movie of the same name about being in a hookup-only friends-with-benefits sitch that eventually led to an exclusive relationship. The whole “catching feelings and living happily ever after” part is to be expected from...

In case you haven’t noticed, kink is everywhere these days—in porn, on TV, in blockbuster movies, and best-selling books. (Yes, it’s a beautiful time to be alive and consuming media.) But where do kinks come from? Like, do we pick them up from Rihanna songs and Fifty Shades books, or are some of us just divinely—or biologically—destined to be kinkier than others? In other words, are kinks…hereditary? It’s a good question—even if most of us would rather *not* spend too much time thinking about...

Pexels It’s not exactly a secret that even in our presumably progressive era, heterosexual relationships (and, ahem, the women in them) are still plagued by all kinds of gendered double standards and power imbalances. Just take a look at some (unfortunate) stats the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped earlier this year, which revealed women in hetero relationships spent nearly twice as much time as their male partners on chores, general household management, and childcare, despite also...

Chances are you tend to play a pretty central role in your own sex life. You’re probably the star of most of your own sexual fantasies, and when you watch porn (or read it or listen to it or whatever you do to turn yourself on) you might imagine yourself in whatever sexy scenario you’re getting off to. This may all sound pretty obvious, but if you’re someone who identifies as aegosexual, that connection between yourself and the way you experience sexual attraction might not be so clear. In...