Ever wondered how a sex coach decides to make sex their job? Athena Mae found her unlikely calling as a teenager, when friends came to her with their questions. Then she started teaching body-positive sex education. This is what 20 years of shedding myths about sex and body size has taught her. And, yep, she tells it straight Lads seek out the fattest woman they can find, and the competition is to sleep with her and then display her as a trophy, exposing her to public ridicule.

It's a subject which is still taboo and sometimes a source of ridicule - fat people having sex. Emma Tamsin Hill is one of those people and she has made a film which looks at the concerns of Britain's increasingly super-size population. Now 22, she says the three years while she studied were a steep learning curve of how men behaved towards her. She said: "Looking back I think men preyed on me because of my size. It was all consensual and I wasn't promiscuous but I had a few experiences with boys who left me feeling used.

The F Word is a series celebrating what it means to be fat — from destigmatizing the word to taking stock of the discrimination fat people face. Whatever size you are — fat, skinny, or anywhere in between — you should feel comfortable and good about what you are doing, and that includes sex. Just you.