Tag: intimacy

Sex Edition (2024)

Espy Asks: A Sexologist

Words by: Esperanto Team
Sexologist: Chantelle Otten

Chantelle Otten is the sex therapist of sex therapists. Based here in Melbourne but globally renowned, Chantelle’s passion is to help people feel free and confident in their sensual selves. She is an award-winning sexologist, a published author and a Sexual Health and Wellness ambassador for Lovehoney and Bumble. Chantelle is all about making sex ed sexy through her practice as a sex therapist, short explainers on Instagram, her podcast ‘Give Me A Buzz’ and much more.

… Espy Asks: A Sexologist
Sex Edition (2024)

The Intimate Moments

Words by: Ilana Cohen
Art by: Dora Chung

It has been one hell of a year. Without getting too Carrie Bradshaw on you, I’ll tell you how my sex life was impacted, and how my partner and I were brought closer together because of it.

A lot of things can impact one’s sex life. Grief being one of them. recently lost someone close to me, someone I spent a lot of time with and who welcomed me into their life amidst a terminal diagnosis. To add to the heartbreak, she was my partner’s sister. He experienced a loss and pain can’t even imagine. Because of that, my relationship felt stagnant at times, and at others, couldn’t have been more enthralling.

… The Intimate Moments
Sex Edition (2021)

The Transformative Power of Casual Intimacy

Words by: Joseph Lew
Art by: Gabrielle Poh

The first time I touched another person I was 16. His parents were out of town for the weekend — in Spain or Morocco or something of the sort — and in the one hour in between the end of the school day and when he was meant to go pick his brother up from tutoring, we dug ourselves underneath his messy floral bedspread, whispering hushed secrets and tracing love letters across one another’s spines.

… The Transformative Power of Casual Intimacy