Yes, it's completely safe to have sex on your period — including internal (vaginal), external, and oral sex. While many people are deterred due to embarrassment, menstrual symptoms, cramping, or a fear of being "too messy," period sex is actually a lot of fun.
Shibari is an art form with a rich history, and a fun, experimental present.
Goddess Honey B, who is a professional Dominatrix and is deeply invested in the freedom of Black people, along with Kharyshi Wiginton who is a submissive sex goddess, write in this article, "Having ownership over your body and sexuality is extremely difficult when you are a girl or woman. It’s even harder when you’re Black. When you’re a fat Black woman, you’re made to feel like your body is an inconvenience and your sexuality is nonexistent.
In our communities of Black folks, kinky people were finding one another and creating enclaves of communal practice. Inside these Black kinky communities, we found Black people rejecting white dominant culture’s proscriptions on who was worthy of sexual pleasure, who could rule inside the bedroom, or what it meant to powerfully submit. Here we saw Black people using sex and sexuality as a medium to create new realities and praxes, even for those of us at the furthest margins of society."
What it is, how to find it, and why you should be stimulating it.
Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of The Body Is Not An Apology, on the revolutionary potential of loving oneself in a society built on domination and extraction.
