Reina Gattuso

Whether you’re rubbing a friend’s back or giving a massage, healing touch begins with active consent and communication.

Here are some tips for nurturing good friendships that last.

Casual sex can be fraught for many of us. Here’s how self-reflection can help.

The pandemic has awakened a skin hunger that many of us haven’t quite felt before.

As with all things sexual, gifting someone a sex toy requires planning and finesse.

Exploring our desires can be challenging, but it’s possible to embrace what turns us on.

It’s possible to transform receiving a “no” from an unsettling experience to a joyful one.

Here’s how to unlearn those harmful messages that say masturbation is shameful.

Leaving a harmful relationship can be painful, terrifying, and exhilarating all at once. 

Discrimination against bisexual people is harmful and persistent. Here’s how to cope.

Jealousy isn’t fun, but it can also be an invitation to better meet our needs.

Is it possible to wipe the slate clean with a former lover?

Comfort sex can come from a desire to feel safe and forget about the outside world.

What’s a single person to do when cuffing season beckons?

Accountability and healing come from confronting our dark sides in relationships.

Embracing intimacy and pleasure in a world built to punish us for letting our guards down.

Here’s how to care for a partner with mental illness, while respecting their agency and self-determination.

How to navigate a later coming-out with resilience, joy, and plenty of orgasms.

Here’s how to build relationships in which we are accountable for our privileges and supported in our vulnerabilities.

Just because NSA sex isn’t romantic doesn’t mean we can cut corners on kindness.

Communicating what we don’t want is easier said than done.

Here are five ways to cultivate some genuine self-love this year.

Sexual trauma can change how we experience our bodies and desires. Here are ways to heal.

Is it possible to orgasm without genital contact?