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I'M BEGGING YOU

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In the first millennium, the ceramics of the Moche people of modern-day Peru depicted all kinds of sex: from sex between monkeys to sex between skeletons to sex between monkey skeletons. These ceramics also depicted male-male sex (bottom right), and individuals who appear to mix elements of masculine and feminine gender presentation (top right).

Around the 1500s, four healers visited Honolulu from what are now the Society Islands. These healers - named Kapaemahu, Kahalao, Kapuni, and Kinohi, were māhū, a Native Hawai’ian gender with a particular focus on healing and caring roles. When they departed, the four māhū left behind four huge stones as a memento of their visit, which are still revered in Hawai'i today.

In 1625, Ethiopian Orthodox nun Walatta Petros faced execution by the country’s emperor, Susinyos, for her refusal to succumb to Portuguese pressure and convert to Catholicism. Susinyos spared her life only because he feared others would rally around her as a martyr if she was killed. Walatta Petros went on to found seven Orthodox communities alongside her life partner, fellow nun Eheta Kristos.

In the 1870s, white US agents imprisoned Osh-Tisch because they were a batée, a Crow gender combining female and uniquely batée social roles. US agents cut Osh-Tisch’s hair and forced them to don male clothing. Crow chief Pretty Eagle came to their defence and with the support of their community support, Osh-Tisch continued to express their gender identity.

When people fake orgasm or other sexual responses, it still gives partners those cues. It just gives them wrong cues. It tells partners you respond to something in a way that you don’t, like something to a degree that’s not real, and if they don’t know you’re faking, and you also don’t talk about what’s really going on, they’re going to tend to keep doing whatever brought about those responses because they, since you have effectively told them so or shown them so, think those are the right things to be doing to please you.

In order for your sex life to get better, and in order for you two to actually really get and be intimate sexually, he needs to know that the information you have been giving him has been wrong information. He needs for you to start giving him accurate information about what goes on with you sexually."