Straight from the mouth of a gynaecologist.
By Charlotte Moore Jessica Lockett | Getty Images
How much do you remember about your sex education class? Maybe an awkward conversation featuring a condom and a banana, followed by a swift assembly on the joys of menstruation. Maybe you explored relationships and the act of sex itself. Across the UK, our understanding of sex is fairly diverse dependent on where we grew up. But with one of four adults are unable to correctly label a vulva, it’s fair to say that for most of us, there were gaps.
As someone approaching their thirties, I can safely that while my sex education left plenty to be desired, I came of age around the same time as the internet - or at least, the internet as we know it. Plugging gaps in my own understanding was as simple as asking Jeeves. While I’d be pressed to find someone akin to Hannah Witton in my teenage years, I could read around my own education enough to understand what information I was miss
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Stephanie Alys, Chief Pleasure Officer at British luxury sex-toys brand ‘Mystery Vibe’, poses with sex toys. AFP
Sex toy sales surge spices up lockdown
Thu, 4 February 2021
Sex toy sales have exploded as millions around the world seek to spice up lockdown with new bedroom accessories and Western societies shake off the last taboos around female pleasure.
Sofia (not her real name), a 29-year-old singleton in Paris, overcame her “psychological barrier” to sex toys when the first lockdown kicked in last March.
“Something clicked,” she said. “I knew it was the right time, that we were entering a crazy period during which I was going to be cut off from all social contact and my love life.”