Take a moment to think about your pre-adolescence, or about the time in your young life when you first started learning about sex. Chances are that if you identify as a woman, you first started developing your sexual self in relation to a partner. And if you identify as a man, you first started doing so by witnessing porn. This overgeneralization doesn’t hold true for everyone, but it’s fairly common. In my experience, through the years of research and conversations I've had with the men and women in my life, I have come to learn that the ways in which young men and young women learn about sex are (generally) vastly different.

Cold water plunging is a form of cryotherapy (or cold water therapy) that has been used as a healing practice since the Roman and Greek empires. It can take the form of short, cold showers, short plunges into cold bodies of water, or ice baths. There are many health benefits associated with the practice.