relationships
Feb. 6, 2013 Cover Story – Real local stories from Colorado LGBT couples in love
Hi Shanna,
My current partner and I have been engaging in sexual activities for the last 8 months, and every time we either we have intercourse, or I give him head, he lasts (I kid you not) about 30 seconds! It’s so frustrating; I honestly go home and have to masturbate silly! He doesn’t think it’s an issue, but how can I make him last longer? Any help would be great.
– Disappointed in Denver
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In the 1950s it may have been plausible that people could rate themselves on a 1-6 of ‘purely heterosexual’ to ‘purely homosexual,’ but this is 2013.
Dear Shanna,
It’s always awkward for me to bring up using a condom during oral sex with guys that I am hooking up with, but it’s very important to me to use protection, even during blow jobs. Any suggestions?
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When I first sat down to write this article, I asked myself ‘how hard could this be?’ I thought that discussing body-type preferences between lesbians and straight males would be an easy subject to tackle – that I could guess what they’d
say … I couldn’t have been more wrong.
We’ve all been lied to. We’ve been told that to ‘give up’ shows weakness. It’s not necessarily true. I’ve actually improved my life by learning to give up, and I believe that we can all benefit from this philosophy; it’s definitely not the easy way out.
Dear Shanna,
I found some written porn stuff (like erotica) on my 12-year-old stepdaughter’s computer. I don’t want to demonize sex, masturbation or porn, but I feel like it was not an appropriate representation of sex, especially for somebody so young. Do you have any advice?
– Sex-Positive stepmom in Golden
