Hi Heather~ yes, all of these things seems like a helpful way to approach my issue with speaking up. I hadn't thought of safe words, I guess because I assumed they were only for people engaging in BDSM, not vanilla sex. I don't know why I thought that, but this makes sense!! Ok, so for discomfort- i...

Hi Heather, Thank you so much for your response. It was really helpful to have that explained to me- seems obvious, but I didn't really know. As for my feelings about this particular situation, well, my boyfriend and I always have some kind of verbal check in before we have sex, so yeah, that doesn'...

Hey! I'm a girl in my early 20's who's had intercourse 2 times. I'm currently with a (male) partner who I love and trust, so we decided to try having intercourse a few months ago. Well, it didn't go very well. Once before we'd tried and communicated well and though it felt sort of uncomfortable/new,...