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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Paisley Gilmour

Bigger is always better – and nine other sex myths busted

sex myths

Sex = penetration

Asked to define sex, most people will say it means penetration and anything else is just “foreplay”, explains Kate Moyle, a psychosexual and relationship therapist, and author of The Science of Sex. “This pedestals intercourse as ‘real sex’ and other sexual acts as something done before penetration rather than as deserving credit in their own right,” she says.

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