definitions

You're not the only person confused by this term, so let's see if we can't clear it up for everyone once and for all. When healthcare professionals ask that question, they are asking from a sexual health perspective. In other words, what they are wanting to know is if a patient or client has...

Here's a quick roundup for you. Oral sex is sexual activity between partners in which someone's genitals -- penis, testicles, vulva (vagina, clitoris, labia) or anus -- are being stimulated by someone else's mouth, lips or tongue. Names for some common oral sex activities are cunnilingus -- giving a...

Well, if the woman in question took a pen and wrote "I'm a virgin!" on her forehead, that might tell you something. However, otherwise there are not any signs one can look for to determine virginity short of asking the person in question. Virginity is not really a physical issue so much as it is a...

"Foreplay" is a term often used primarily by heterosexual people to describe sexual activities done before vaginal intercourse or activities which are anything besides any kind of genital intercourse. Often, when people talk about foreplay, they're talking about petting, dry sex, mutual masturbation...

You know, if you went out on the street and asked 100 people what the "bases" were, I bet you'd get a TON of different answers. One of the issues with the old "baseball" analogy to describe sexual activities is that it is a culturally defined and influenced set of ideas. So different people define...

The way to check if you're still a virgin is to ask yourself how you define virginity, and see if or how your definition matches up with your experiences. In other words, there is NO -- and I mean none, zero, nunca, aucun, keine -- physical way to determine if someone is a virgin, because virginity...

It's tough for me to give you a solid answer on this one, because you weren't very clear on what you were actually doing. Sometimes, when a person says they haven't had "full" intercourse, or "full" penetration, they mean they haven't had whatever their idea of that is. In other words, a person who...