While there’s no one-size-fits-all formula for coming out, writer Amanda Gundel and therapist Daniel Tehrani share 6 common steps –and some common-sense guidance — for this process.

A Black woman takes a selfie where she smiles wryly at the camera. She is not wearing clothes and covers her chest with her hand. She has dark brown curly hair which frames her face, and is lying in a bed with white sheets.

Women are slowly moving towards parity in the boardroom, but not in the bedroom. Why are straight women having less satisfying sex than men? And what can we do about it?

Confidence and joy in your own body are the keys to healthy intimacy, says educator and author Emily Nagoski.

iO Tillett Wright is currently 5,519 portraits into a mission to point out that we’re all, at heart, the same. Her goal: to photograph 10,000 people around the United States who identify as being something other than 100% heterosexual. Here’s just a small sample of her powerful photographs.

Over the years, social change in the public sphere has led to abrupt shifts in private attitudes about sex. Call it a different kind of sex change.