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The Sound You Only Make When Nobody Knows You

There is a sound you have probably never made at home. You catch it on the way up and swallow it — turn the moan into a held breath, the cry into nothing, because some part of you …

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When Your Vibrator Stops Working: How to Reset Your Body

# When Your Vibrator Stops Working: How to Reset Your BodyIf your vibrator used to get you there easily and now it takes longer, harder, and higher settings — and other kinds of to…

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The Tension Is the Climb, Not the Thing in the Way

There is a kind of orgasm that does not come from letting go. It comes from the opposite — from a tension held so long and so tight that when it finally breaks, there is nothing yo…

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Ticklish Isn't a No

When someone touches the sole of your foot, the back of your knee, your ribs, the soft inside of your thigh, your body jerks. You pull the foot back, you laugh, you squirm away. An…

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Why Doing Everything at Once Makes You Feel Less, Not More

# Why Doing Everything at Once Makes You Feel Less, Not MoreIf you have ever tried to stack it all up — clitoris and inside and nipples and a toy, all going at the same time — and …

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Why He Kneels to the Part You'd Apologize For

Picture him on the floor, both your feet in his hands, his mouth moving over the arch, the heel, the gap between your toes — the part of you that walked all day, that you'd apologi…

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Two Kinds of Stimulation: Which One Leads

When you combine stimulation of the clitoris with something inside the vagina, the two do not simply add up. If you run both at full strength from the start, they compete, and the …

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Why Adding More Can Feel Like Less

Putting something inside can make a clitoral feeling weaker, not stronger — the two kinds of stimulation interfere, they don't add.

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