Gabrielle Kassel

While many of us like to think of ourselves as immune to aging, there’s simply no stopping the clock—or the host of physical, mental, and emotional changes that accompany getting older. Currently, there’s a whole lot of discussion happening among women around demystifying menopause, but often overlooked is the male experience. For middle-aged men, the deluge of changes to mind and body is sometimes referred to as “andropause”.
Andropause, also called “male menopause,” is not a universally acc...

While most seated sex positions involve a chair, car backseat, or sofa, face-sitting involves a love seat you might not have tried yet: your partner’s face.
This move is exactly what its name suggests. “Face-sitting is a highly intimate and powerful sex act where one partner straddles the other’s face—usually to receive oral sex,” explains Carolina Pataky, PhD, LMFT, a sexologist and co-founder of South Florida's Love Discovery Institute. In certain circles, this same act is referred to as 'q...

If you have issues getting hard and staying hard, you’re not alone. Forty percent of men over 40 experience erectile dysfunction (1). The good news? No matter if your ED has physiological or psychological roots, there are several ways you can treat it. But if you’re skeptical about the potential side effects linked to certain ED medications, you might be curious about trying a holistic approach, like apple cider vinegar, first.
“Apple cider vinegar itself isn’t a treatment for erectile dysfun...

The best period underwear can, in fact, provide ample leak protection (through any sleeping position, too) thanks to their supreme moisture-wicking fabrics. “Period underwear has highly absorbent material that collects blood and prevents the fluid from being close to the skin,” says Jessica Shepherd, M.D., chief medical officer of Verywell Health.
Gynecologists say you can also use them as a replacement for pads and tampons (making them a good sustainable product for periods), even when you'r...

In today’s app-centric dating world, modern-day fairy tales are more likely to start with a right swipe and match, than they are with locked eyes across the subway car or a meet-cute in the fiction aisle at your favorite bookstore. Dating apps are currently being used by more than 60 million people looking for love, lust, or something in between (looking at you: short-term serious relationship). Open one of these apps, set up your online dating profile, and you’ll immediately come face-to-fac...

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Few sex toys have become as ubiquitous as Womanizers’, which are revered by reviewers for their ability to bring users to climax, all without direct contact. In the decade...

Just haven’t been in the mood lately? You’ve got company. Low libido impacts an estimated 20 percent of men and more than 50 percent of women at some point in their lives.
For most people navigating low libido, the culprit behind the lack of or reduced interest in sex is something none of us are immune to: stress. It’s the number one killer of libido, according to Dr. Lyndsey Harper, M.D., OB/GYN, founder of Rosy, a sexual health wellness technology platform made specifically for women with l...

You can’t attend a dinner party or listen to a podcast these days without the topic of longevity being discussed. For the uninitiated, longevity is a term that focuses on increasing the number of active, healthy years an individual has in their life (often referred to as “healthspan”). Conversations around longevity often center around pushing back against the typical slow decline associated with aging in most cultures and social spheres.
Living with longevity in mind means prioritizing actio...

For far too long, women’s sexual health has been ignored, but that’s starting to change—and it’s about time. Women’s pleasure is taking center stage with libido-boosting “pink pills” and scream cream—a topical that, as the name suggests, can help make you scream in the bedroom.
Scream cream is “the latest addition to the arsenal of medications designed to help women achieve orgasm more easily,” says menopause specialist Sherry Ross, M.D. It can be a godsend for women dealing with common perim...

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I’m currently living my long-held dream of residing in the mountains while writing about sex full-time; basically, I’m like Carrie Bradshaw if she was queer dog parent who...

Part of the solution for the sub-par ZZZs that plague nearly 20 percent of adults who struggle to fall asleep or stay asleep, may be to fiddle with… their thermostat. Yes, really.
The temperature of our bunker, as it turns out, plays a major role in the quality and duration of our dormancy. In fact, naturopathic and functional medicine specialist Paul Harris, N.D., medical director of Soaak Technologies and the Soaak App, goes as far as to say that “maintaining an optimal sleep temperature an...

Peaked and puckered, rosy and ruched, sensitive and sore. These are the words most commonly used to describe different nipple sensations. But over the last few years, throngs of people have taken to TikTok and Reddit specifically to describe their nipples as sad. Indeed, folks of all ages are singing the breast blues online, sharing how a nipple graze, caress, and kiss can all occasionally evoke feelings of deep despair. Turns out, there’s a name for this: sad nipple syndrome.
“Sad nipple syn...

Burrito bowls or burgers for dinner? Did you call the plumber? Did the dog have a bowel movement? The more entangled your life gets with your partner, the more commonplace these types of questions become. No doubt, there can be something intimate about the minutiae of everyday life, but experts agree that there is value in continuing to get to know your partner on a deeper, more intimate level through questions that build emotional intimacy.
Asking your SO deep questions signals to them that ...

Menopause is tough enough without adding an unbearable urge to scratch to the list of symptoms. Yet up to 64 percent of women in perimenopause and menopause experience it. So why is no one talking about it (1)?
“Itching is just not one of the symptoms women tend to talk about at the water cooler,” says menopause specialist Sherry Ross, M.D. Most women don’t even connect itching to menopause, she notes—until they mention it to their doctor.
Don’t ignore the scratchy struggle. Left untreated, m...