The Ultimate Guide to Talking About Sex Before Sex

Sarah Martin, MA, CSC
14 min readApr 24, 2019

Talking about sex before doing it will transform your sex life

Two people kissing while smiling on the street. Photo by Tallie Robinson on Unsplash

You meet someone new — some sexy human. You find yourself in their embrace, kissing passionately, feeling their hands on your body. You kiss back, every touch sizzling. Clothes come off. At this point, when you’re no longer wearing a shirt, you hear a whisper in the back of your mind…

“Wait, wait, wait! You didn’t ask them if they’ve been tested! Do you have condoms? Do they? Aren’t you supposed to do something? Do something!”

You pull back from their embrace and ask, “Hey, have you, like, been tested before?” in a panting, breathy voice.

“Yeah, I’m clean, don’t worry,” they say, before diving back in.

Swept up in the rollercoaster of arousal, you decide this is enough, at least you’d asked. And with that, passion runs away with you, a force of nature so delicious in it’s impact.

Delicious, that is, until the next morning on the way back home, when you think— shit. Is everything really going to be ok? Or am I in for some nasty surprise?

No one teaches us how to have conversations about sex before sex. We don’t learn how from our parents, our teachers, our peers, and or our partners. Most of the education we receive about sex is steeped in fear…

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Sarah Martin, MA, CSC

Sex Coach for the Highly Libidinous. Dignified Hedonist. Get the Hedonist’s Guide to Flirting Archetypes http://bit.ly/flirtingSOS