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Dear Alice,
In Free from Pregnancy Worries, you said partake in safer "outercourse" rather than intercourse. What exactly is "outercourse"?
Dear Reader,
Outercourse is lovemaking without penetration into a vagina or an anus. It allows a couple to be sexual, more intimate, and even orgasmic with one another without having sexual intercourse. With outercourse, no semen, vaginal fluids, or blood is shared between partners. As a result, outercourse protects against pregnancy and some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Some outercourse pleasuring possibilities include hot talk, sexy stares, erotic fantasy, spicy role-plays, sensual massage, showering or bathing together, strip-tease, mutual masturbation, phone or e-mail sex, and dry sex (a.k.a., dry humping or frottage).
Outercourse is useful:
- when people choose to abstain from sex or are not ready for intercourse yet
- if one partner doesn't feel like having intercourse
- as another sexual option for partners who have already had intercourse
- if a partner doesn't want to be penetrated (or do something that's penetrating)
- if a partner is sore or has an infection
- if people don't have condoms or any other birth control
- if a partner is constipated
- if a woman partner has her period
- just for a change
Hope this answers your question.
