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It's hard to muster up enough courage to admit you can't get an erection. And it must be awfully embarrassing confessing to cross-dressing, don't you think? Shy or not, for those who want advice about love, the Net is a great place to turn. So if you're wondering if safe love is totally safe or if that foot fetish you have is normal, you can ask an online love educator.

Sweet enough to be your grandmother, but wise enough to be a world-renowned love educator, Dr. Ruth Westheimer has dished out advice on

love for years. Now the good doctor takes her messages of safe and healthy love to the Net community at Dr. Ruth Online. She answers visitors’ questions on a wide range of subjects, including celibacy, safe love, oral love and role playing. She also delivers a love tip of the day that's not to be missed!

The Dear Delilah section of Thrive Online is another place to get candid advice about love. Delilah is the alter ego of Deborah Levine, creator of the highly regarded online service Go Ask Alice. She's spent more than a decade as a counselor and health educator, so don't be shy about asking her anything! Questions recently found in Delilah's mailbag: Is bigger better? Diaphragms or condoms? Does age matter? Addicted to masturbation?

The previously mentioned Go Ask Alice, the Health Education and Wellness program of the Columbia University Health Program, houses answers to other common (and not so common) questions about love making in three tantalizing categories and relationships.

Kim Martyn is a loveual health educator in Toronto and has spent many years with the Toronto Board of Health working to educate people about human loveuality and prevention and treatment of loveually transmitted diseases. She tackles inquiries on a wide range of topics, including birth control, fantasies and safe love at her sometimes steamy site,

Board-certified loveologist and licensed California marriage and relationship counselor Isadora Alman hosts the Love making  Forum, a gathering place for mature discussion of loveuality and relationships. Isadora responds to questions and issues raised in this forum. You can search an archive of past questions and columns by Isadora as well.

There's a good chance that the question you have about  healthy love making -- you know, the one that you think is absurd or embarrassing -- has already been asked and answered at one of these sites.

Of course, Heidi Reich's main method of contraception is abstinence (hi, Mom!)