Talking About Sex
By Cory Silverberg, About.com Guide to Sexuality
Develop the language and skills to talk about sex with partners, a partner-to-be, your doctor, your kids, or anyone you need to talk with about sex. Plus find out what you can learn about sexuality from the worlds of sexual culture, politics, and science.
Talking About Sex in Relationships
Learn to navigate your way through the complicated world of sexual communication in sexual relationships. Ideas and suggestions for talking to your partners about sex, understanding alternative relationships, and expanding your own sexual relationships.
- Raising Sexual Problems with a Partner
- Talking with your Doctor About Sex
- Talking About Sex and Infertility
Talking with Kids About Sex
Talking with your kids about sex may be difficult but it’s the only way to keep them safe, healthy, and happy as they develop and once they reach adulthood. Learn how to make sex talks more comfortable (for everyone) and find resources for sex education at every age and stage.
- Four Reasons to Talk with your Kids about Sex
- Talking with your Pre-school Child about Sex
- Talking with your School Age Child about Sex
- Talking with Teens about Sex
- Quick Tips on Talking with your Kids about Sex
- Sex Education Websites for Parents
- Dealing with Nudity in the Home
- How to Tell your Parents you Want to Start Having Sex
Sex Education
We can all benefit from sex education and learn more about our sexual opportunities and potential. Get answers to commonly asked sex questions and find resources on accessing the sex education for yourself and anyone you care about.
Sex Advice
The best sex advice draws from current research, the experience of others, and understanding the context within which we experience our sexuality. Learn more about sexual pleasure and health, sexual experimentation and dysfunction, and sexual politics and entertainment.
- Is Watching Porn Okay?
- What Makes a Great Lover?
- Does Circumcision Effect My Sex Life?
- Are Sex Toys Safe?
- Where is my G-Spot?
- Are Sexual Fantasies Bad for our Relationship
- Does Size Really Matter?
- Why Does Sex Hurt?
- See All Sex Questions
Sex Research
How do we know what we know about sex? From the laboratory to the bedroom sexual scientists use creative ways to study every aspect of our sex lives. Get a guided tour of some of the newest and most unusual sex research.
- Weird Sex Research: Why (Some of Us) Have Sex
- Weird Sex Research: Erotica, Evolutionary Theory, and Women Who Like Porn
- Weird Sex Research: Sex with Partner is 400% Better
- Is Our Sexuality Being Overmedicalized?
- Research into the Genetic Components of Human Sexuality
- Bad Reporting on Sex Research
Sex Trivia, Culture and Technology
Test your sexual knowledge and explore the highs and lows of our culture’s near obsession with sex. From sex in film to robot sex, discover new and old ways that people have used sexuality to explore personal and cultural identities.
