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Healthy sexuality in a time when talking about sex is still taboo

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Healthy sexuality in a time when talking about sex is still taboo
Showing nude pictures, watching porn in private, making sexual jokes all seem to be acceptable.

What is still not acceptable is truly talking about sex in a healthy positive proactive way.

Teaching people about their bodies how they function along with their minds. Couples often don’t talk openly about their sex lives with each other. They may say they want to have sex, but communicating about how they like it, what their fantasies may be is still somewhat taboo. Even sex education classes, they don’t talk healthy sexuality. How women take time to have an orgasm, how their vagina needs to lengthen, and blossom to accommodate a penis. People don’t talk about male sexuality either the fact that men are not always ready for sex; they do get nervous sometimes which causes them to lose an erection. A man may also be very sexually excited and still lose his erection or not have a full erection. Both women and men need variety, their minds stimulated along with their bodies.

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Healthy sexuality is talking about sex openly in a positive way, no shame, no embarrassment or guilt. People forget that a vagina and a penis are a part of the body just like an arm or a leg!

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