Introducing In Touch - real stories, honest conversations and shared experiences from our community. Pleasure, connection, and sexuality are deeply personal. No two experiences are the same and there are...

It is always fascinating to look at the words society uses to police sexuality, because they almost never started out that way. Today, the word slut carries an immense amount...

The bedside table should be a bit of a sanctuary; the final boundary between the day’s noise and the privacy of sleep. It’s where we keep the things that actually...

They often get bundled together, but they are not the same thing. Wanting to be desired and wanting sex can overlap, sometimes neatly, sometimes messily. But they come from different...

In the traditional arc of life, adolescence is usually framed as a messy, hormone-fueled rite of passage - a blur of first crushes and the frantic construction of an identity....

In the quiet landscape of a long-term relationship, it’s easy to assume the map of our partner’s body - and our own - is fully charted. We fall into a...

In a world that constantly asks us to be productive, optimized and "on," there is a quiet, powerful rebellion in simply wanting something for yourself. We often think of activism...

There is a specific, low-frequency hum that happens around the third glass of wine. It’s the moment where the logic of the day begins to dissolve and the phone in...

It starts as a sudden, visceral heat in the cheeks, an involuntary curling of the toes and a fleeting, desperate wish that the floor would simply open up. We’ve all...

We often speak about the heart or the gut as the emotional centres of the body, but there is an equally reactive, though far more private, anchor point: the pelvic...

The ick is a singular, modern phenomenon that sits somewhere between a preference and a physical reflex. It’s that sudden, inexplicable shift where a person you were previously attracted to...

There is a reason the early stages of a relationship feel less like a lifestyle change and more like a total cognitive takeover. We call it the honeymoon phase, but...

In a world that provides endless instructions on how we should feel, it is remarkably easy to lose touch with our own internal compass. We are surrounded by external scripts...

There is a specific, often unacknowledged tension that exists in the gaps between our life chapters. We have a wealth of cultural scripts for being single and an even greater...

In the mid-1970s, at the height of a culture that still viewed female desire through a largely clinical, male-led lens, an American-born German sex educator and researcher named Shere Hite...

“Just because I fantasise / Doesn’t mean it’s wrong” - FKA twigs, Two Weeks Fantasies can feel like confessions. We tend to treat them as indulgent, embarrassing or somehow other...

Introducing In Touch - real stories, honest conversations and shared experiences from our community. Pleasure, connection, and sexuality are deeply personal. No two experiences are the same and there are...

Intimacy isn’t always obvious. It doesn’t only happen in physical closeness or deep conversation. Often, it shows up in quiet gestures that don’t ask for attention. You notice them after...

Following on from our previous blog on unexpected things that are actually intimate, this piece goes a step further. It’s about the kinds of closeness that rarely get acknowledged -...

The numbers don’t lie: 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men in the United States experience sexual assault in their lifetime. For queer people, the prevalence is even...

Valentine’s Day didn’t start with roses, restaurant bookings, or heart-shaped anything. In fact, its origins are far messier, darker and far less romantic than the version we know today. What...

Valentine’s Day has a reputation for being about couples, gestures and visible romance. The kind that’s easy to spot from the outside. Flowers on tables, reservations booked weeks ahead, carefully...

To read Sappho today is to realize that the internal landscape of longing hasn't changed much in two and a half millennia. Writing on the island of Lesbos in the...

This is one of those topics that usually gets buried under a lot of clinical advice or, worse, hushed up like it’s a sign of a failing relationship. In reality,...

This is perhaps the most difficult internal shift to navigate because it’s a direct conflict between what the heart wants and what the nervous system can actually sustain. We’re often...

The pressure to want sex more than you do can be a heavy one, because it’s rarely about the sex itself and almost always about the guilt that starts to...

The idea of multiple orgasms often gets framed as a high-level skill or some kind of physical marathon. As we know, turning pleasure into a goal is usually the quickest...

We often talk about the orgasm as if it’s a singular, predictable destination. In reality, it’s a moving target. Some days it’s a full-body experience that leaves you completely floored,...

We’ve spent a lot of time learning to spot the red flags - those neon signs of danger that tell us to run - and the green flags that signal...

The gap between what we tell the world about our desires and what actually resonates in the quiet of a browser tab is often wider than we care to admit....

It’s a quiet realization that often comes with a side of guilt: the fact that pleasure sometimes feels more accessible when there is no one else in the room. We’re...

For as long as we’ve had modern medicine, we’ve been obsessed with the idea of the average. We’re measured against height-to-weight charts, standard heart rates and a very narrow, clinical...

It’s one of those concepts that has been marketed so aggressively that it’s become part of our cultural shorthand. We’ve been told for decades that there is a secret, invisible...

This is one of the more exhausting types of loss because it’s so quiet. When we lose a person or a relationship, there’s a clear event for people to acknowledge....

There's a particular kind of frustration that comes from wanting to feel something and finding that your body has already clocked off for the day. The mind is willing -...

We are often told that the goal of intimacy is total connection - the kind of soul-baring closeness that makes the world disappear. We pursue it, we celebrate it and...