Gabrielle Kassel

There are a number of different types of vibrators on the market, each providing specific strengths to a person's pleasure repertoire. If you want a trusty basic, a wand massager might be your go-to. And if you wan't something discreet and portable (or packable!) a bullet vibe may be more your speed. Of course, there's no harm in bulking up your pleasure chest with any number of tools to help you enjoy sex sessions, whether partnered or solo. And for folks interested in blended orgasms, in pa...

Turn on literally any TV show and you’ll see how families are depicted on screen. Most queer families in media are typically shown with any number of kids parented by two partners in a loving relationship with each other. Exactly as it sounds, partner parenting is what it’s called when two (or more) people who are in a romantic partnership decide to raise a child together. But as children of divorced parents can attest, that’s not the only parenting option available. That’s we’ve put together...

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Gabrielle Kassel
If you've been given the boot, finger, or cold shoulder by your family of origin, you might be bitterly thinking that family is a thing reserved for straight or cis normative people—but this is not the case. On the contrary, ‘family’ is a concept that queer and transgender people have been defining and redefining for decades, as a way to give ourselves access to community, care, advice, resources, mentors, young ones, elders, and much more.
Family, redefined
Before...

In honor of International Day Of Happiness we put together this guide on exactly how getting down can help you when you're feeling down.
Writer bio: Gabrielle Kassel (she/her) is a queer-inclusive, health-informed, pleasure-inclusive, sex-positive journalist and educator whose work reflects the intersections of LGBTQ+ issues, sexual health, wellness, and pleasure. She is also the co-host of Bad in Bed a queer sex education podcast featuring the queer sex education you never got, but always de...

Writer bio: Gabrielle Kassel (she/her) is a queer-inclusive, health-informed, pleasure-inclusive, sex-positive journalist and educator whose work reflects the intersections of LGBTQ+ issues, sexual health, wellness, and pleasure. She is also the co-host of Bad in Bed a queer sex education podcast featuring the queer sex education you never got, but always deserved.
Maybe you recently met someone who is transgender and don’t know what that means. Maybe you’ve heard the term non-binary before b...

Here's your complete guide to compassion fatigue, including how it differs from burnout and how to avoid it.
What Is Compassion Fatigue?
Who Is at Risk for Compassion Fatigue?
What Are the Signs of Compassion Fatigue?
How to Determine If You Have Compassion Fatigue
How You Can Address Compassion Fatigue
The Takeaway
If you've been feeling "meh" and have been helping someone more than Sookie helps Lorelei, Jules helps Rue, or Gary helps literally everyone else on A Million Little Things, you m...

Over the last few years, terms like “gender binary” and “gender nonbinary” have become common lingo in certain cultural convos.
But do you know what the gender binary is, exactly? If not, you’ve come to the right spot.
At its most distilled, “the gender binary is the false idea that there are only two genders and that every single person is one of these two genders,” explains clinical social worker and gender specialist Rebecca Minor.
But it’s also more than that. Ahead, a deep dive on the ge...

he penis may be the most visible pleasure center people assigned male at birth have, but it isn’t their only one. The prostate, also known as the "P-spot," is an internal gland located between the butt and penis. “Its primary function is to produce prostatic fluid, which helps the sperm safely travel down the urethra and toward the egg during P-in-V intercourse,” says Bobby Box, a sex educator with LoveHoney. But, its secondary purpose is to be a vessel of pleasure.
Chock-full of nerve ending...

The Magic Wand Original is a vibrator with more than a half-century of experience at delivering pleasure. But after testing a new, snack-sized version of the toy, the Magic Wand Mini, I predict it'll be equally acclaimed by sex-havers everywhere.
For some background, the Magic Wand Original (known as the Hitatchi until a 2013 rebrand), is arguably the little black dress of vibrators—a true classic. Made of body-safe ABS plastic and silicone, the massager first came on the market in the late 1...

hen you’re exhausted and the picture of salvation simply looks like your bed welcoming you to hop in for some shut-eye, sex is likely not the first thought in your mind. In fact, a 2017 survey found that 60 percent of folks say they crave sleep more than sex on average, indicating where our priorities are for a lot of the time. But, being too tired for sex doesn't mean the end of intimacy in your respective partnership.
“There are a number of emotional, mental, physical, and circumstantial re...

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There are lots of reasons someone might want to take a nude picture. For couples, snapping and sharing nudes can be a powerful way to minimize the miles between them, initiate intimacy, spice up a sext, and celebrate (or tease) one another. For influencers, models, and sex workers, nudes and partial nudes can also act as an effective mark...

Doctors debunk the myth that swimming on your period is unsafe and explain how the exercise can ease symptoms.
If you're a menstruator who's ever gotten their period before a day of splishing, splashing or a swim meet, you’ve probably wondered: Does my period have to put a damper on my water activities? Can I swim on my period?
Below, gynecologists answer these and other relevant questions about how to swim on your period.
Can You Swim On Your Period —And Is It Safe?
If you own a set of float...

Ever been called Miss Independence, a relationship-phobe, or cold-hearted biotch (ouch!)? Eh, odds are good that you have something called avoidant attachment style.
Avoidant attach-huh??If you haven’t been on Mental Health Tok or Theragram (that’s therapy Instagram), you may not be familiar with this or the other attachment styles. So, it's worth a recap.
Ready? According to attachment theory, psychological theory developed in the 1950s by mental health professionals John Bowlby and Mary Ain...

xperts agree that nothing (nothing!) will fast-track your post-exercise recovery more than a good night of sleep. But once your Zzzs are dialed in, you can help your body recoup from your workout even more these days with a variety of fancy-shmancy recovery tools. The latest treatment to catch the eyes (er, muscles) of fit-fluencers and professional athletes alike is something called red light therapy.
“Red light therapy has been around for a while, but in recent months it's become the new ‘i...

any folks believe that a hallmark feature of a healthy, committed romantic partnership is being with someone who understands what makes you, in particular, click and also does what they can to meet your needs. In reality, though, folks need emotionally intimate relationships with people other than their romantic partner in order to have an emotionally fulfilling life. But, what are the signs of emotional cheating that may indicate platonic intimacy isn't what's really happening?
According to ...