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ONE Condoms

 Hey all! This post is long overdue. Receiving a bunch of sex-related products and struggling with ovarian cysts doesn't mix well. Luckily, things are all cleared up for me, and my products can finally be put to some good use!! Sometime over the summer, ONEcondoms sent me a bunch of products!! I had briefly heard of them before that, but to my knowledge, had never used any of their products. That has definitely changed! If you read my blog, you know that I am a HUGE advocate of safe sex. Condoms were (and continue to be) an amazing invention. Seriously, how cool is it that there is a thing that we can use in the heat of the moment that can very nearly completely prevent pregnancy from happening? I think it is pretty awesome. When I was younger, my issues with vulvodynia led me to believe I had a sensitivity to latex condoms. Luckily, now that my symptoms are mostly gone, I realize that is not true! Since finding that out, I decided to branch out and try all kinds of condoms an...

Why do you want to be a sex therapist?

Hey all!! I've decided to do an update for you. I hope you all enjoyed my interview with Josh. It was super entertaining and informative for me. Personally, I am monogamous, but I find the idea of non-monogamy fascinating. I do have another interview to post soon with a woman in a similar situation. She is married, yet both her and her husband have a couple of significant others outside of the marriage!! Her stories are pretty crazy, so make sure you stop by to check that out. Now, a lot of you haven't read this blog from the beginning and therefore may not know some stuff about me. I get asked a lot why I want to go into this field. The answer is because I suffered for several years to get answers and information about my own body, and I wish that things like that could be much more obtainable. I got my period when I was 11. I didn't know anything about it and I was too afraid to talk to my mom. I cried myself to sleep and thought something was wrong with me. Through...

Interviews with Strangers--Josh

Growing up, I was a jealous person. This didn't change when I started dating. I compared myself to a lot of other girls, and my jealousy increased with every negative thought. Monogamy came natural to me, as a result. I never even questioned having more than one partner. I knew that those kinds of relationships did exist, but honestly, I thought they were very few and far between--the kinds of relationships used in television and cinema to create a good, dramatic story line. But as I've gotten older, I've found that a lot of people consider themselves to have a fairly ambiguous relationship status. A lot of people aren't committed to one person. A lot of dating sites and apps like Tinder and Grinder make it easy to date around. 'Playing the field' is pretty common for people in their late teens and early twenties. We date around until we find 'the one.' But what if you don't want just one? What if you could continue having new and exciting experience...

Inspiring Women of the 2016 Olympics

This year's summer Olympics in Rio have been an exciting event. There have been several world records broken. There was tons of controversy around the location of the event, around the competitors, and around commentator's wordings and newspaper's headlines. There has been a lot of talk of sexism surround the Olympics, and while we must fight to break stereotypes and taboos of women in sports, we must also celebrate what women have done thus far. In fact, this year's Olympics had more female competitors than any other Olympic games in history--45% of competitors this year were women, compared with 2.2% in 1900. Several events, such as weightlifting, shooting, and rugby, haven't even always allowed women to compete. As the years go on, women are proving more and more that they are more than just pretty appearances and quiet homemakers. The women in this year's Olympics are strong, both physically and emotionally, and extremely motivating. Young girls everywhere ...

Race, Gender and LGBT Themes in Video Games

Do you guys like video games? I like video games. I'm not the best at them, and I have a fairly short attention span, so I rarely finish games. Back in November of last year, I was completely fixated on Fallout 4. I love all of the Fallout games, and I excitedly pre-ordered the Pip-Boy edition. I played that game for hours and days on end until I finished it. I loved it. I loved that Bethesda added the ability to explore relationships. Granted, the characters were limited romantically, but it was still cool. Being a fairly cisgendered woman, I didn't really consider the fact that the romantic options were almost completely heteronormative. Default players--straight white couple I read some articles and saw how the game could have been better in a romantic sense. The options could have been expanded to include more range of romantic situations and interactions. Your character was very limited in what they could say, and there were some fairly sexist comments from a few...