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Have You Ever Heard of Sexsomnia or Sleep Sex Before?

Sexsomnia, also known as sleep sex is considered a medical disorder. The person who struggles with this will engage in sexual acts during non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM). NREM sleep is a dreamless sleeping state. Were breathing and heart rate slow down and blood pressure lowers (Medicine Net). Sexsomnia is similar to sleepwalking. Here the individual can perform a wide range of sexual acts, such as…

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Know Your Relationship Rights

You have rights in your relationship. Everyone does, and those rights can help you set boundaries that should be respected by both partners in a healthy relationship.

You have the right to privacy, both online and off

You have the right to feel safe and respected

You have the right to decide who you want to date or not date

You have the right to choose when/if you have sex and who you have sex with

You have the right to say no at any time (to sex, to drugs or alcohol, to a relationship), even if you’ve said yes before

You have the right to hang out with your friends and family and do things you enjoy, without your partner getting jealous or controlling

You have the right to end a relationship that isn’t right or healthy for you

You have the right to live free from violence and abuse

via @loveisrespect

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“Laverne Cox becomes the first trans woman on the cover of Cosmopolitan!”

- Affinity Magazine

CONGRATULATIONS LAVERNE!!!

Cosmo: you leave out the A but then put “Allies & Activists” - you went all in on A’s and forgot Ace/Aro!

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Infograph by: Schizophrenic NYC

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A new report from the National Center for Transgender Equality explores the "deeper and broader forms of discrimination" faced by the black trans community.

“The general public needs to know that one of the most dangerous things in the world is to be ‘walking while trans,’“ Simmons said, adding, “walking while black and trans can be twice as deadly.”

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Here’s the links to the full-text PDFs of each study linked at the article, for anyone who didn’t click through:

2015 U.S. Transgender Survey: Report on the Experiences of Black Respondents

2015 U.S. Transgender Survey: Report on the Experiences of Latino/a Respondents

(The titles say 2015 bc they use 2015 survey data, but they were both revised/published in 2017, so it’s still current.)

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120 Best Gay Themed Movies (1974–2017)

NEW YORK (AP) — Among the dozens of prominent Americans entangled in sexual-misconduct cases this year are a modest number of men whose accusers are male. For some LGBT civic lead

Important article about wording of sex allegation coverage...

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9 Small Ways to Have Better Mental Health in the New Year

As you know, for the countries that use a Gregorian Calendar New Year is just around the corner. While for many this would be a time to make new years resolutions, those often look like enormous imposing things when you’re not at the best point with your mental health. We at Psych2go would like to offer you more achievable ways to have better mental health in the New Year. In a low effort ways, that is, because we know that when you are already struggling looking at a huge new years resolution feels like an impossibility. So these are some small ways to have better mental health in the new year.

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This is worth reflecting on…for a more fulfilling next year…

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Happy New Year!

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Listen up. There is literally an app that can help you avoid self harm and I don’t know why we aren’t talking about it.

Calm Harm can be tailored to your needs and will provide strategies to help you get past those crucial moments of wanting to harm.

It’s also totally FREE.

once again, it’s called CALM HARM

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For more posts like these, go to @mypsychology

Let us talk about intimacy for a minute: give me your description/definition, if you don't mind.

Hey thanks for your question - what is intimacy? There’s tons of definitions - I often go by this idea - “intimacy = into-me-you-see” - opening up and sharing of self with others. This could be emotional, intellectual, physical, sexual, etc.