Sex Myths We All Need to Ditch

‘Your generation didn’t invent sex’, my mum (who grew up in the ’60s) likes to remind me. Maybe we didn’t. But studies show we are more open to exploration, more accepting of other people’s gender identity and sexual orientation, and have more conversations about pleasure and consent. We’re sex-positive and redefining what good sex looks like, and yet…there are still a few myths lingering that are really f*cking up our sex lives.

: In , UK-based clinical psychologist and psychosexologist Dr Karen Gurney explains that many sexual problems are linked to lingering beliefs about how our bodies and sex lives should work. “So much of the sex therapy is directly related to ideas about sex that just aren’t backed by science,” she says. And if we’re still holding on to those false ideas about what sex ‘should’ look like, it will be hard to tap into what