DISCUSSION

Mental health has been a popular topic lately, and more people are taking it seriously. It is important to do things that are good for your mental health, and since today is World Mental Health Day, it seems like the perfect time to talk about it.

Looking on the BBC website this morning I found the latest ‘teacher sex with student’ story. The allegation was that she had had sex with a student in a plane toilet. She strenuously denied the allegation, claiming it to be a ‘porn fantasy’ invented by the lad. By the time you read this, the case may well have been decided one way or another, and at the time of writing we are leaving that to the court.

What do you think the norm is when it comes to sex? For most of us, we imagine vanilla sex. Vanilla sex has a reputation as ‘boring’. We think of it as the default of sex. You get into either the missionary or cowgirl position. If you are feeling spicy, you might go for doggy style to mix things up.

Most of us lead busy lives. Although we try our best to make time for ourselves and our sexual partners, we aren’t always able to. The latest smartphones mean that we can now sext without worrying about being caught out, and so we aren’t having as much physical sex as we used to.

We have been watching the rise of sex dolls over the recent years with interest in on our site. We have seen them go from cheap plastic things found in the bedrooms of weirdos, to realistic looking items that cost thousands of pounds. We have even seen sex doll brothels open all over the globe. The next step must surely be sex robots; it only seems to be going one way.

When I first began exploring BDSM, it was with someone who had a great deal of experience. If you could name it, the chances were that she had tried it. I felt safe with her not just because she had this experience, but because she was so eager to talk everything through with me first.

If you are looking to improve your sex life, it can be a minefield trying to find the right advice. Some sites will suggest trying anything and everything to make a difference, while others promise an easy solution if you subscribe to their services.

While we’d all love for sex to be like it is in the movies, it often isn’t. Things don’t go as smoothly as they might have you believe, and there are some common sex problems you could encounter.

I have always been a big proponent of managed prostitution areas. They keep sex work in one area, meaning the girls there can be monitored and get access to the help they may well need. We have all seen the alternative; vulnerable women working on their own, putting themselves in all kinds of danger.

Most of us think that we have a pretty good idea about the proper way to use condoms. The issue with that is that there are plenty of misconceptions we have. In reality, you might not be using condoms the way that you are supposed to.