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How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Send it to Jessica and Rich here. We have sex two to three times a week, and it's wonderful. But I've been using AI tools for masturbation nearly every day. It's just so easy to explore wacky and fun scenarios (specifically in the fantasy and sci-fi genres) that I've found it dividing my attention from my girlfriend.

How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Send it to Stoya and Rich here. My husband and I have an awesome, intelligent 14-year-old son who identifies as bisexual. We are totally accepting and supportive of him. He has had a few short-lived crushes on different genders, though he doesn't seem to be particularly interested in dating right now. His internet search histories are pretty benign--mostly video game stuff, and the occasional search for "hot girls" and "boobs."

This post is part of Mashable's Masturbation Week. May is National Masturbation Month, so we're celebrating by exploring the many facets of self-love. Size matters -- at least when it comes to sex toys. If you're looking to treat yourself in the bedroom there are millions of sex toys to choose from, but one of the greatest things about masturbating is you're totally in control. You decide how to pleasure yourself, which means you have the option to go big -- like, really really big -- if you so choose.

Australian cybersecurity expert Nick Patterson created quite a stir when he told the Daily Star hackers could theoretically hijack high-tech sex dolls and use them to kill people. "Once a robot is hacked, the hacker has full control and can issue instructions to the robot," Patterson told The Daily Star. Patterson later told Men's Health the tabloids sensationalized his broader observation about artificial intelligence: AI-powered robots are still machines. They can get hacked just like any other computer connected to the internet. Regardless, there's no need to fear sex tech.

There were pillows, mattresses, bottles, a couple of cuts of raw meat and even a vacuum. Yes, sometime not long after I discovered the wonders of masturbation, I attempted to have sex with a vacuum and it turned out about as well as you might imagine. When I was a kid, masturbation was an adventure in engineering. As I've come of age, however, so has the sex-toy market. After centuries of ejaculating into whatever we can find, a seemingly robust market has sprouted up around male-masturbation aids.