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Daisy Ducati and Ella Nova in Crash Pad Series episode 186

Here’s how to have tidier period sex:

“There are a lot of ways you can reduce the mess from period sex, or even avoid it entirely. First, you can choose to have sex that doesn’t involve the vagina, so you can keep a tampon or menstrual cup in. You can have your partner rub your clitoris, you two can mutually masturbate (with you focusing on your clitoris), or you can have anal sex. You could also choose another sexual activity that lets you leave your tampon or cup in, like dry-humping.

For another no-mess option, you can wear a diaphragm or certain brands of menstrual cups for penetrative sex. If you’re simply removing your pad, tampon, or cup for sex, there are still mess-reduction tactic you can take. You could have sex in the shower for easy clean-up, or simply lay down a towel on your bed (or, if you’ve got cash to spend, a period sex blanket). If you do get blood everywhere, you can treat a period blood stain with cold water and stain remover.”

Barbary Rose and Rion Rhodes in Crash Pad Series episode 277

Here’s what it means to be on the asexuality spectrum for three people, one of whom says:

“‘The more I read about it, the more I realized what a broad spectrum it is,’ she says. ‘I was like, ‘This makes so much sense. This is exactly what I am.” The confusions started to lift as she continued to read about the array of asexual people.

She realized that her feelings about sex were common, and that it was OK to feel differently about it at different times; in fact, it was pretty common. ‘Because of sex aversion, I had never considered asexuality for myself,’ she tells Allure. ‘I think of it in waves. There are times when I’m very indifferent to sex. I’m not repulsed by the idea, it’s just ‘whatever’ to me. Then there are times when I am more interested in wanting to have sex, so I’m closer to gray-ace in that regard.'”

Chocolate Chip and Emperatrix in Crash Pad Series episode 278

Tinder’s gender options are finally improving slightly, I guess because Pride.

Enjoy these sweaty summer sex strategies.

Slutbot is a bot that will teach you how to sext, theoretically.

Here are a few non-monogamous couples’ dating apps.

Here’s what Venus in Gemini means for your summer fling.

Lindsay Cin and Valentine in Crash Pad Series episode 276

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