Q&A: Alfie Beier
I think a lot of people forget that the talk about sex doesn't have to be about what goes on in YOUR specific bedroom, but more of a fluid conversation...
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I'm a meat doll
Liva has written a text about having sex with an overriding body shame. About how self-critical thoughts and shame stand in the way, depriving her of sexual pleasure and intimacy....
I had never seen myself as part of my own sex life
Five years after my sexual debut, I was asked a question that simultaneously opened up a whole new world for me, while at the same time creating great confusion within...
Study: Too many women deprioritize their own pleasure during sex
Club Venus's first community survey focuses on women's relationship to sex, pleasure and desire. The figures are sad, and are proof that we unfortunately still live in a society full...
Psychological violence: From self-hatred to self-love
My abuser was the first person I had a long-term sexual relationship with. I was sexually inexperienced when I gave myself to him, especially in relation to him. The experiences...
Review: Is Woody really a multifunctional wonder of a dildo vibrator?
Klub Venus describes Woody as a "multifunctional wonder of a dildo vibrator" - but is it? I'm fairly new to the world of pleasure products, and actually only bought my...
Pregnant: Just the thought of the tiny baby in my belly put an end to his desire for adult play
His libido had always been less than mine, but it was as if just the thought of the tiny baby in my belly put a final stop to his desire...
Pregnant: My sex drive disappeared like dew before the sun the second a sperm fertilized an egg in my body
I very rarely wanted to have sex with myself, or to have sex with my boyfriend, which was really difficult for both of us. But I just had. not. bright...
Grooming: I was 16 years old when my mother's husband started his abuse
Stories of first sexual experiences abounded among my female friends as a romantic rite of passage that left people on a pink cloud. My body could recognize the words about...
Eating disorder and sex: I couldn't stand it if I had to feel my body
When the eating disorder raged, sex was a huge challenge. It has been de-prioritised, sometimes impossible to carry out. Quite simply because my psyche could not see it and because...
I was abused as a child: I learned all too early that my body was not mine, that my boundaries were not to be respected and that my feelings were not important
I have been ashamed for as long as I can remember. I was abused as a child, from about five to seven years old. It was two different offenders, both...
Vulvodynia: When I first let my ex-boyfriend touch me, an unpleasant and almost excruciating pain occurred
For as long as I can remember, I have always associated my abdomen with pain or a feeling that something was wrong, from my first period, to my first sexual...