The Unbearable Pressure to Penetrate
What do we stand to gain when we stop treating penetration as the main event, the end goal, the default, or the only benchmark for good sex?
“I felt like I wasn’t even in the room when I was having sex.” As therapists that work with queer folks and trauma, it’s not uncommon for us to hear experiences of dissociation during sex. But wha...
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