Category: Sexual Behaviors & Practices

Polyamory: Meaning, Relationships, Consent, and Multiple Partners

Polyamory is consensual non-monogamy that allows more than one romantic or emotionally intimate relationship with everyone’s knowledge and agreement.

PrEP is medicine used by people without HIV to greatly reduce the chance of acquiring HIV through sex or injection-drug exposure.

Nudity is the state of being fully or partly unclothed and may occur in private, medical, artistic, cultural, social, or sexual contexts.

Non-monogamous describes a person or relationship that allows more than one romantic or sexual connection through mutual knowledge and consent.

Masochism is pleasure or fulfillment from consensually receiving pain, discomfort, humiliation, restraint, submission, or loss of control.

A masochist is someone who may experience pleasure or fulfillment from consensually receiving pain, humiliation, restraint, or loss of control.

Monogamy is a relationship structure in which a person has one romantic or sexual partner at a time under mutually agreed boundaries.

Masturbate means to stimulate one’s own genitals or other sensitive body areas for sexual pleasure, relaxation, orgasm, or ejaculation.

Mutual masturbation involves partners stimulating themselves, stimulating each other manually, or doing both together for pleasure and intimacy.

Masturbation is self-stimulation of the body, especially the genitals, for sexual pleasure, relaxation, exploration, orgasm, or ejaculation.