How do you have butt sex

When year-old Alyson was in high school, she heard a rumor that many school-aged children have since come across: that anal sex makes your butt bigger. Not your butt hole , mind you — the butt overall. To this day, people regularly turn to Quora and Reddit for answers, and on Twitter, its weird staying power shows up in jokes and tweets from time to time. Most of the time, they originate from fear, ignorance or unchecked cultural norms, and education is really the best tool to set the record straight. But this idea that anal makes your ass — the whole ass — bigger has truly stopped me in my tracks.

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If you do a quick search online about anal sex, it boils down to one basic concern: can anal sex screw up your, well, anus? People are curious about how anal sex can impact their pooping habits and ability to "hold it. The other popular anal inquiry has to do with frequency: can you have too much anal sex? It turns out the answer to both isn't exactly cut and dry.

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