Many of us experience love. We may love our Mum or Dad. We may love our pet rabbit. We may also have a crush on a pop star or a movie star.
We hear a lot about love when it comes to dating and relationships. But how is loving a boyfriend, girlfriend, or partner different from loving our Mum or Dad? How is it the same? Is loving a partner the same as having sex with them? Is it different? Is a crush the same thing as love?
And what does intimacy mean? Does ‘being intimate’ with someone always mean having sex with them? Are there other ways people can show love to each other, or be intimate with each other? What’s scary about love and intimacy? What’s great about it?
Let’s have a conversation!
Videos
How Do You Support Your Partner and Show Them Love?
Resources
Care, surgical planning, and peer and community support for trans people across the province.
Vancouver area group for gay, bisexual, transgender, Two-Spirit and queer men.
If you receive disability benefits in British Columbia, you’re usually eligible for a free hormonal IUD through Pharmacare.
A website with lots of information on safer sex and STIs, including how to get tested and treated.
Vancouver store that sells many sexual pleasure products like sex toys, vibrators, massagers, and lubricant.
London Drugs stores throughout BC carry several personal massagers – also known as vibrators – that are inexpensive.
News
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