Answer (1 of 7): No and yes. You do not need to masturbate to be healthy. Even if you have a penis the only necessary thing you must do is ejaculate, which the body will do on its own if you do not. The only reason people masturbate is because it feels good. No one does it because it has ‘healt...

Consent is necessary to ethically and legally have sex. Understanding what exactly consent is can help prevent sexual assault, and the legal ramifications it entails.

PDF | On Jan 1, 2001, Steven Jay Lynn published Informed Consent and Uninformed Clinical Practice: Dissociation, Hypnosis and False Memories | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

In the last 10+ years BDSM has gotten a lot of airtime and printspace to present itself as fully compatible with feminism, and the self development of modern, empowered women. The way BDSM is usual…

Consent creates a safe environment where people can make choices freely. Learn what consent looks like and how to ask for it in respectful ways.

One in three women and one in six men in the United States experience sexual violence in their lifetime. Yet there’s conflicting understanding of consent and what constitutes sexual assault or rape. To help advance the conversation around consent, Healthline has collaborated with NO MORE to create a Guide to Consent.

The concept of affirmative consent dictates that "yes means yes," and that only an enthusiastic "yes" constitutes sexual consent. But what is not consent? A lot of the things we've been taught indicate sexual consent are actually not adequate ways…

Learn about affirmative consent and how to ask for it with your sexual partners by reading this article.

New research identifies how young adults approach sex, as power shifts.

Although the popular video urges its audience to think about consent in simpler terms, on a case-by-case basis, the dilemma is much more fraught than we are lead to believe. […]

Sexual coercion is when someone pressures a person into having sex through harassment, manipulation, or threats. Learn the signs here.

Describing an empowering view of sexual consent in people with dementia.

Though people discuss consent in a variety of contexts, consent is perhaps most discussed in the contexts of medicine and sex. While there are obvious differences between consenting to a medical procedure and consenting to sex, there are also similarities between the concepts of consent. In both, valid consent is the kind of agreement that…

Sexual consent is a multidimensional construct that requires the participation of all involved in a sexual encounter; however, previous research has almost exclusively relied on one person’s perspe...

In 1990, Antioch College in Ohio instituted an affirmative consent policy stating that all students must obtain explicit verbal consent from a prospective partner prior to engaging in any sexual...

This review focused on how sexual consent ability was determined, managed, and enhanced in people with cognitive disabilities, with the aim of better understanding the recurring themes influencing the design and implementation of these approaches. If ...

Consent means actively agreeing to be sexual with someone and lets them know that sex is wanted. Sexual activity without consent is rape or sexual assault

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