Sexual Identities & Expressions

Helpful tips ease the process of considering and beginning gender-affirming care.

Sexual choking involves blocking the airways for sexual pleasure. But there is no safe way to engage in breath play. Heather Corinna and Giselle Woodley discuss the dangers of choking, guidelines for BDSM and kink, and suggested alternatives.

Executive summary of a survey in which over 5,000 LGBTQ+ women shared their experiences of discrimination, finances, education, religion, gender and sexuality, sex, and relationships.

Sociologist Hannah Tessler addresses the challenges that asexual and aromantic people face, and provides an overview of recent scholarship on asexuality and aromanticism.

Data collected by Indiana University between 2009 and 2023 indicates that both teens and adults in the U.S. are having less partnered sex than they used to.

A report on American Indian and Alaska Native LGBT adults in the United States, with information on how aging and care impact those populations and communities.

An interview with writer and performer ALOK about their work to de-gender fashion, gender-based violence, and how they respond to hardship with love.

This article outlines how to be supportive of a child who has come out to you as LGBTQIA+.

In this podcast interview, Lucie Fielding talks about trans sex and sexuality.

A podcast series about genetics, chromosomes, gender, genitalia, and “the parts of us that let us make more of us.”

Two-part podcast discussion of sex and gender with genderqueer neuroscientist and endocrinologist Dr. Daniel Pfau.

An introduction to asexuality, the spectrum of asexual identities, and attitudes about sexual behavior.