Gender and Relationships

Your identity is part of your relationships, just like your relationships are part of your identity. And honestly, there’s so much more to learn about both. These articles are dedicated to helping you answer your questions about gender identity and sexuality, so you can continue to spread the knowledge to the people in your life.

What Does It Mean to be Sapiosexual?

Does someone talking about their favourite book get you hot under the collar? Is your idea of a perfect date a heated discussion of Descartes? Did you have a crush on your university lecturer because they were just so clever? Well, you may be sapiosexual. Up to 8% of people between 18 and 351 are ...

What Does It Mean to Be Bisexual?

Whether you’re here to understand your own feelings, support a friend, or just satisfy your curiosity, the more people who appreciate the nuances of the bisexual identity the better. So welcome! If you’re bisexual, it means you’re attracted to people, regardless of whether they’re the same or different gender as you. It’s all about love ...

What Are Erogenous Zones?

They might sound like levels in a sci-fi video game, but erogenous zones are in fact places on the body that have the potential to provide pleasure and arousal when touched. The Oxford English Dictionary defines erogenous as: describing certain parts of the body, the physical stimulation of which leads to sexual arousal1. The word ...

What Does It Mean to be Transgender

What it means to identify as transgender is going to be something different to every trans person but that doesn’t mean you can’t be respectful and understand meanings of words they may refer to themselves as or what it means to identify as trans in the broader sense of their everyday lives. This article explains ...

What Does Pangender Mean?

In today’s diverse dating landscape, people come together from all walks of life, each with their unique identities and experiences. One such identity that is gaining recognition and visibility is pangender, which relates to self-identity rather than sexual preference. Pangender is a term that is used to describe a gender identity where an individual identifies ...

What Does Autosexual Mean?

In the world of dating and relationships, we often hear about various sexual orientations and identities. While many are well-known and widely accepted, there are lesser-known aspects of human sexuality that deserve recognition and understanding too. Autosexuality is one such concept that has been gaining attention in recent years.* Autosexual is a term used to ...

A Beginner’s Guide To Safe Bondage

If you have ever fantasised about being tied up while having sex then you are not alone. Whether you are using pink fluffy handcuffs or black leather straps, bondage is a consensual sexual activity or fetish that involves the use of restraints to restrict a person’s movement, often for the purposes of sexual pleasure, erotic ...

What Does It Mean to Identify as Intersex?

Have you ever wondered what the ‘I’ in LGBTQIA+ stands for? Well, it’s one of the least understood identities within the spectrum and represents only a tiny minority of people. But nevertheless, having a deeper appreciation for what intersex means, and some of the challenges intersex people may face in life, is so important when ...