How to Do Sex

In this week’s “Call Your Boyfriend” column, Ryan O’Connell tackles questions about friends with benefits and bedroom insecurity. Have a question? Ask away!

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Can Proximity Be A Problem When It Comes to Being Friends With Benefits?

Is being “friends with benefits” with someone you live in the same building with a recipe for disaster?

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What to Get: The Person You’re Casually Dating

If your “we’re not into labels” relationship is in the uncategorizable stage, you can still find something to give your significant whatever.

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Stop Being Friends With Attractive People Of The Opposite Sex, Says Science

Maybe we are so blind to the butterflies that flutter in our stomachs when our buddy-pal is around, that we dodn’t realize that friendship is detrimental.

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What To Do If You’re In Love With Your Best Friend

Fact is, not every guy who is a good guy or every girl who is a good girl has to be together romantically.

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The 7 Types Of Non-BFs

“I don’t even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I’m best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me.”

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Breaking: Men And Women CAN’T Be Friends, Says Science

Crush on your friends with caution.

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Why Friends With Benefits Doesn’t Really Work

Men and women handle and react to sex differently, and no matter how much she says she only wants sex – and she may, indeed, only want that – the reality is she is going to react emotionally to it, become attached to you, whether she wants to or not.

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Online Dating Woes: When You and Your Friend Message with the Same Person

What to do when you and your friend accidentally start flirtily messaging the same person.

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Friends Without Benefits: 6 Things You Should Know About Having a Substitute Girlfriend or Boyfriend

This, my friend, could drag on for years, especially if neither of you meets someone else — someone you can call your actual boyfriend or girlfriend.