1. This gorgeous shot from photographer Dave Levingston
2. An extremely honest music video
3. Edgy - but beautiful - art
4. Images celebrating the naked pregnant body
5. Awesome, long-form posts about losing your virginity
Facebook might let you post it but you can be sure the text will be cut off with a ...read more before anyone gets to the (pun intended) meat of the story.
Before I actually had sex I had watched enough R rated movies and teen dramas to know that sex was forbidden, that it might hurt the first time, that I was supposed to be madly in love with the person who "took" my virginity, that my virile partner would be above me and we would have intense sustained eye contact the entire time. I had read enough of my sister's Seventeen Magazine back issues to figure out that sex could be dangerous and scary. I could be raped, contract a disease, get unexpectedly pregnant. I paid enough attention during my school's Sex Ed classes to understand what semen was, how babies formed inside a female body, that condoms were only secondary to abstinence in the protection hierarchy. I could label a cross cut diagram of male and female genitalia with 100% accuracy. But none of that added up to functioning, usable knowledge. See, the thing about Sex Ed is that the name of the class is deceiving, Sexual Education. Body Education would be a less confusing name. The classes taught me about hormones, budding breasts, reproduction, venereal diseases, the importance of women performing regular self exams, what a wet dream is, body hair, growth spurts, how sex organs function and what they look like when flayed open in a scientific textbook. But I never learned what I really wanted to know: how does sex feel?