‘At Least You’re Young Enough to Start Again’: What Not to Say to a Friend Getting Divorced at Thirty
‘How Are You Supposed to Feel Sexually Liberated with Mum in the Room Next Door?’: Sex While Living at Home as an Adult
Constantly thinking about how loud my partner and I are or how much noise the bed is making takes me out of the moment. Living at home makes it so much harder because you’re not trying to hide it from friends or strangers but from family, and I for one didn’t have a relationship with my mum that extended to her having to listen to me having sex…
‘Everyone Deserves Representation’: The Dynamics of Queer Sex and Intimacy
Queer people typically define sex outside of the usual, heteronormative consensus that sex is only penis-in-vagina penetration! Rather, as Hannah (She/They), who identifies as queer, answered, ‘Intimacy is any intimate contact.’ Meaning, foreplay becomes defined as sex, as well as general touching, kissing, etc…