We live in a sex obsessed world, where hook-up culture is king and getting laid out like a spatchcocked chicken is a status symbol.
But what if you’re a fully-fledged adult, paying your own bills and you’re still a “virgin”?
Some women might hold off having sex for the first time because they want to meet the “right” person, others because they haven’t had the opportunity or are waiting until marriage. Whatever the reason, it can feel lonely and isolating when there so much noise around sex.
Yumi Stynes talks to women who haven’t yet had sex, either by choice or circumstance and to another who waited to have sex for over 40 years, until she met her perfect person.
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Featured in this episode:
Amanda McCracken, writer on love and limerence
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Hey Yumi! How do I introduce a kink?
PCOS: Infertility, beards and BS
Hey Yumi! My partner's gone full slob
INTRODUCING - our most intimate season ever
Pongy vagina
Staying for the money
Clementine Ford on the case against marriage
BEST OF - Pelvic flaw in all of us
Falling for a narcissist
Sober sex
BEST OF - Love letter to our friends
Solo mums by choice
Emily Nagoski on sex in long term relationships
BEST OF - To pube or not to pube
Sex in a fat bod
Female rage – why are we so damn angry?
Esther Perel on Intimacy
Choking during sex – can it ever be safe?
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