Gabrielle Kassel

If you’re looking to bulk up your biceps, chisel your chesticles, or hulk your hammies, you can’t go wrong with a good barbell exercise.

“The barbell is one of the best tools you can use to get stronger,” says Grayson Wickham, DPT, a physical therapist and the founder of Movement Vault, a digital movement education platform.

Summary:
What is the progressive overload principle?
The benefits of progressive overload
How to apply the progressive overload principle to your workouts
Ever grabbed a heavier dumbbell because after weeks with the lighter weight your body could handle more? Or run further, faster because training at a slower rate helped you feel prepared? If so, you’ve unknowingly implemented something called the progressive overload principle.

Unless you have a medical kink or are role-playing nurse and patient, the doctor’s office and bedroom probably function as separate, non-interacting entities. But for some people who experience pelvic or sexual pain, vaginal dilators blend the experience of the two.
Below, two pelvic-floor therapists explain the purpose of these medical tools, as well as how to determine if they may be useful for your personal pelvic-floor issues or sexual pain.

You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.
Just because that refrain is common, doesn’t mean it’s true. It’s not.
Chosen families prove that, actually, it is possible to choose your friends and your family.
Also known as found family, “a chosen family is made up of people who have intentionally chosen to embrace, nurture, love, and support each other regardless of blood or marriage,” says Bahiyyah Maroon, PhD.

The first time I heard the word queer, it was violently flung at me and my then-girlfriend through a car window by a gaggle of giggling (and likely, intoxicated) football-player bullies in high school. It wasn’t until my sophomore year of college—when I took a Queer Studies 101 class and learned the true history of the word—that I felt comfortable adding it to my identity CV. I proudly began considering myself a queer bisexual dyke.

s someone with a hypertonic pelvic floor, my pelvic-floor muscles are in a near-constant state of contraction. Think: tight as a closed fist. This situation can make penetrative play painful if not impossible—that is, unless I coax my pelvic-floor muscles into submission ahead of time.

Whether your interest in orgies cums (had to) from your FWBs suggestion, watchingShortbus, or your recent porn preferences, there’s no doubt that orgies can be HOT.
Here, sex educators break down why. Plus, share exactly what to expect at your first orgy party.
What is an orgy party?
Simply put, an orgy is group sex. How many people are needed for sex to count as an orgy depends on who you ask.

This article is for anyone who’s ever asked themselves “Am I queer?” or “Am I queer enough?”
(Spoiler alert: The answer to the first Q = the answer to the second Q).
Here we go!

On TikTok, it’s Le$bean. In “The L Word,” it’s lez. And for most everyone else, it’s lesbian.
Whether you letter-swap, abbreviate, or not, this guide is for anyone who’s ever asked themselves, “Am I a lesbian?”.
Lez go! (Had to.)
Like other sexual identity categories, the definition varies slightly based on who’s doing the defining.

If you’ve spent the year last falling down the rabbit hole of le$bean TikTok, dreaming about people-watching at your local gay bar, or spent hours hunting for kitchy rainbow tees to rock at your next virtual LGBTQ+ pride event, it’s time you add some—or some more—queer podcasts to your daily routine.