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Hot and Sweaty: Fitness for Fooling Around

It’s ok to skip your spin class this weekend and hit the bedroom: Sex counts as fitness. An intense makeout session will burn about 238 calories per half-hour. Undressing burns about eight. Giving ora…

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Does This Shot Put Your Bones at Risk?

For women who use the shot (a.k.a. Depo-Provera), there's good news and there's weird news. For years women have been warned that the shot can cause loss of minerals in their bones—which could mean th…

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IUDs, STIs, and PID: What’s the Deal?

There’s a lot of conflicting information out there about the relationship between these three very important acronyms related to women’s health: intrauterine devices (IUDs), sexually transmitted infec…

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Myths & Facts About Getting Pregnant

We got so many questions about pregnancy scares in the comments of the original “Um, can I get pregnant if…?” that we decided it was time for part two. Last time we talked about specific sex acts that…

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Steamy Sex Positions to Heat Up Your Weekend

Interested in some new moves? Here are five we recommend when you want to add some ooomph to your O. You might not love every single one, but hopefully you’ll use birth control, get it on, and have fu…

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Erotic Everyday Activities

You’ve been going there forever and every time it was meh. Until that one time. When it set your pants on fire. Sometimes a random outing with the person you’re sleeping with can turn the most aver…

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How to Use Feng Shui to Get Laid

Even if you’re having adventurous sex all over the place, bedrooms are still where the magic happens the majority of the time. Does yours have a let’s-get-it-on vibe? Here’s how to use feng shui–the a…

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Erogenous Zones: We’ve Got the Map if You’ve Got the Time

When you’re all hot-and-bothered and in the do-me-now phase of a relationship, it’s easy to skip foreplay and go straight to the main event. You don’t need time to get turned on and sex feels sensual …

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The Pill, Only When You Get Lucky?

What if there was a birth control pill you didn't need to take every. single. day? If you like the sound of a pill that works to prevent pregnancy when taken within a few hours of sex, you're not alon…

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IUDs As Far As The Eye Can See

It may not be a Hover Board, but a new intrauterine device (IUD) is definitely cause for excitement in our book. Already, more U.S. women are using IUDs than ever before, and the arrival of Skyla this…

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