Articles: Sexuality
Educational articles on sexuality, relationships, and intimacy for adult readers.
Building Emotional Intimacy: Science-Backed Strategies
How responsiveness and small bids build closeness, and what to do when those bids keep getting missed.
Cultural Norms and Sexuality: How Culture Affects Sexuality
How learned sexual scripts shape privacy, shame, and conversation, without treating culture as a reason to coerce anyone.
How Desire Changes Across a Lifetime
What shifts in desire from early adulthood through later life, which changes are normal, and which are worth checking with a clinician.
Responsive Desire: Why Wanting Sometimes Comes After You Start
Many people carry a quiet worry about their sex life. They rarely feel a sudden, out of nowhere urge for sex the way they did early in a relationship, or the way characters in films seem to.
Brakes and Accelerators: The Dual Control Model of Sexual Response
Most of us were taught to think about sexual interest like a single dial. Turn it up and you want sex; turn it down and you do not.
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About the articles
Articles are grouped into sexuality, love and sex, sexual health, relationships and alternative lifestyles. Each one is written for adult readers in plain, clinical language and links to its sources.
New articles are added regularly, and older articles are reviewed when the guidance behind them changes.
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