Learning about the different contexts in which marriage between two women has happened –– and been accepted –– throughout history puts a whole new perspective on the current debate about same-sex marriage," Rupp said. "In different times and places, women have married each other and the walls did not come tumbling down." Something else most women agreed on: light to medium pressure on thegenitals is best. Only 1 in 10 said theypreferred firm pressure during stimulation.

Also known as manual sex, fingering is a term used to refer to when someone stimulates the other’s vulva, clitoris, vagina or anus using their fingers or hands. Fingering can include penetration, or focus on external pleasure. Strap-on sex May also describe having a gender that is neutral: neither masculine nor feminine, nor anything else. When used in this way, “gender-neutral” may overlap with the term “agender,” or may refer to having a gender that is specifically neutral in nature. (See also: neutrois.) If you have masturbated and spent time exploring your own body, use the knowledge you have gained of what feels good to direct your partner. Neutrois: having a neutral or null gender. May include the experience of feeling neither masculine, feminine, nor anything in between, but still feeling strongly gendered, or may include the experience of feeling genderless, overlapping with agender. May include a desire to transition, but may not.Polyaffectionate: having or wanting a non-romantic intimate relationship with more than one person at once, a word for a relationship style based on the word “polyamorous” and frequently used by aromantics, as well as others who desire or participate in having multiple intimate but non-romantic partners. The love affair between poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares got the big-screen treatment in Bruno Barreto's film based on the book Flores Raras e Banalissimas by Carmen Lucia de Oliveira.

Dyadic: not intersex, someone whose sex from birth fits into the category of either male or female. Also known as “perisex.”

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Then it’s a bit like a warm, coiled tension, and you feel your muscles start to tense up in anticipation. Pangender: identifying as or experiencing many or countless genders, either fluidly between different genders or as one all-encompassing gender identity. May identify as being all genders that are available within a particular person’s culture and life experiences. Amatonormativity: a term coined by Arizona State University professor of Philosophy Elizabeth Brake to describe the common assumption in our society that everyone is better off in an exclusive, romantic, long-term coupled relationship, and that everyone is seeking such a relationship. Five short documentaries that capture the diversity & rich history of its deeply rooted LGBTQ+ community. MTF: an acronym that stands for “male to female,” a transgender person who was assigned male at birth, but now identifies as, has transitioned, or is transitioning towards a feminine gender or sex. Generally used in a medical context, and shouldn’t be used to refer to someone unless you know they identify that way.

What people found most threatening, she noted, was female masculinity and independence from male control.There are a few things that will get you by in the meantime. More than half the women in the study said that spending time to build arousal, having a partner who knows what they like and emotional intimacy contributed to better orgasms. And one last thing: stamina is less important than you might think. Less than one in five women indicated that "sex that lasts a long time" made orgasms feel better. Genderfluid: switching between two or more genders over time, or having a gender that changes. These could be any genders—including male, female, nonbinary, and others—and could take place over any amount of time, from minutes to days to months or years, and might change depending on certain circumstances, or might change at random. (Being genderfluid between agender and another gender, or having a gender that changes in intensity, is sometimes called “genderflux.”)