September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and it's a crucial time to highlight this common but often overlooked disease. Prostate cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in men, but early detection can make a significant difference in treatment outcomes and quality of life. Here’s what you need to know about the signs, symptoms, and how prostate cancer can affect sexual health.
Health & Wellness
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Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: What You Need to Know
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Understanding Ovarian Cancer
September marks Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and ovarian cancer remains the fifth leading cause of death among women. Despite its significant impact, it is not widely understood by the general public. Given how many women and people with ovaries are affected, it's important for all of us to become more familiar with this disease.
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Sexual Health Month: Embrace Pleasure for Total Wellbeing
Sexual Health Awareness Month, observed every September, is a time dedicated to promoting healthy conversations about sexual wellness, education, and rights. Established to reduce the stigma surrounding sexual health, this month serves as a reminder that our sexual wellbeing is just as important as our physical and mental health.
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Embrace Aging with Passion: Let's Talk Sex and Aging!
Hey there, fellow pleasure-seekers! Let's talk about a topic that's often whispered about but deserves to be shouted from the rooftops: sex and aging. Yes, you heard that right – as we mature, our sexual experiences evolve, and there's a whole world of exploration waiting for us!
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Let's Have Some Real Talk About STIs
April is STI Awareness Month, which is extremely important because there is still so much misinformation out in the world about STIs. If we are going to get to a place where STIs aren’t stigmatized and shrouded in shame, then we all need to understand STIs better. So, let’s have a real chat about STIs–no scare tactics, no sugar coating, just the honest truth, shall we?
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Hitting All the Right Spots: Learn the Pleasure Points on the Body
Most of us have some basic knowledge of the pleasure points on the body, but having more in-depth knowledge can open you up to experience even greater pleasure. A better understanding of the pleasure points and how they work will allow you to tap into pleasure whether it is with your partner(s) or completely by yourself.
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Building Awareness: Testicular Cancer
Chances are, you may have neglected talking or even thinking about testicular cancer. The reality is, it affects thousands of new people a year and can be deadly if not discovered early. Talking about these things outside of with a doctor can be frightening, but it's important to gather information about them to know what the warning signs are. Join us in digging into some basic information as we help build awareness for Testicular Cancer Awareness Month!
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A Deep Dive Into Condoms
It’s National Condom Week and though many of us generally know what a condom is, there are a lot of important details about condoms that are not known. There are also so many ways you can use condoms to add more pleasure and sensation to your sexual activities. So let’s dive into the world of possibilities with condoms.
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TBR 2024: Top 10 Must-Read Books for Your 2024 To Be Read List
Reading is back in again (thanks #BookTok), but finding good reads can be extremely overwhelming, anxiety-producing, and stressful, so we wanted to lighten your load and make decision-making a little easier. Here are 10 different books that you should include on your To Be Read (TBR) list for 2024.
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Don't Let ED Ruin Your Fun: Understanding Erectile Dysfunction
We live in a phallic-centered society. The penis is put on a pedestal and on that pedestal, there is a lot of pressure on how the penis should perform: meaning, rock solid and hard whenever it’s time for sexy time, but that expectation is a little unrealistic. Erectile dysfunction is a reality for a lot of people, but it doesn’t have to mean that sexual activity can’t happen. Sex is a broad thing and broadening that definition allows people to still experience sexual pleasure while living with erectile dysfunction.
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What is Sexual Wellness/Sexual Health?
Just in case you missed it, September is Sexual Health Awareness Month. If the questions of “what is sexual health” or “this isn’t sexy, why are we talking about it” popped into your head, don’t go exiting the page, I promise you are going to want to keep reading. With the focus of the month being sexual health, it is the perfect time to dive deeper into what sexual health is, how you can prioritize it, and ways to meld pleasure with sexual health.
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Understanding the Prostate: What it is and what is prostate cancer
The prostate seems to be a mysterious part of the body, for those that have one and those that don’t, but it doesn’t need to be a mystery. There is so much known about the prostate, medically and scientifically, but not more generally. If you’ve ever wondered about the prostate, then you are in the right place. You’re about to get a crash course on what the prostate is, general reproductive functions, how it relates to pleasure, and what prostate cancer is.