Jordyn Taylor - Mens Health Best. Sex. Ever.: 200 Frank, Funny & Friendly Answers About Getting It On

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The best sexever? What does that even mean?

Take a few seconds to pause and picture your dream sexual scenario. Maybe its silk sheets and rose petals and chocolate-dipped strawberries. Maybe its handcuffs and a blindfold and Whos your daddy? Maybe its a threesome or a foursome or, hell, a full-blown ancient-Rome-bacchanal-style orgy. Or maybe its sexy solo time with some porn and your favorite booty toy. By all means, let your fantasies run wild. As long as its safe and consensual, we here at Mens Health do not judge.

We all have different bodies, orientations, comfort levels, and kinks in the bedroom (or wherever you like to get it on), which is why the last thing we want to do is tell you what kind of sex you should be having. What were trying to say is, theres no one scenario that makes for the best sex ever. Whatever sex you have when you feel free and empowered to explore your deepest desires is the Best. Sex. Ever.

But if that were easy to achieve, we wouldnt have had to write a whole book on it. Unfortunately, many of us grew up withand still carry the weight ofsexual shame and insufficient sex education. (FYI, as of September 1, 2021, only 15 states are required to teach sex education that is medically accurate.) And even where sex ed is taught, it tends to be hella heteronormative.

From the moment an adult first lies to us about where babies come from, we begin to internalize sex negativity, i.e., the false belief that sex is inherently dirty and wrong. Were bombarded with sex-negative messages from, well, everywhere. Some of us grew up in a religion that told us sex is only between a cisgender man and woman and for the sole purpose of procreation. Some of our parents told us that masturbating every day made us perverts. And some of us had a health teacher who scared the crap out of us with a lecture on sexually transmitted infections. Even if you didnt have one defining shameful experience, its hard to escape the sex negativity that still runs rampant in our society, from political legislation to reality TV dating shows.