"I needed to strip away the technological trappings and do the one very simple thing I'd been so scared to do: touch myself." ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. A person’s first sexual experience is often regarded as a ...

When I look back at pictures of myself in my early 20s, I see a confident young woman who was willing to talk about anything with anyone. But behind closed doors, I was hiding a secret shame that ...