Sex Advice With An Edge
By Marcos Benhamu When Oliver* and his wife opened their 20-year marriage in 2017, a few things had changed since he was last on the dating scene. “I am older, I am a bit tubby around the edges. I can look back at my old pictures and think, ‘Oh my God! I used to be …
People Whose Gender Presentation Defies Expectations By Elizabeth Boskey, PhD A person is considered to be gender non-conforming if their appearance or behavior is not what would be expected for someone else with their same gender or sex. Not every person who is gender non-conforming is transgender or gender diverse, although the two groups are …
Here’s Where To Start. Explore dating new people with care and compassion front of mind. by Taylor Hartman Sara Saito was nervous. Her palms were sweating as she sat at a crowded bar, waiting for her date. Saito had been in the U.S. for a semester studying business abroad at the University of Utah, and …
Men’s Chastity Devices: A Closer Look by MJ Booth It’s Locktober and that means it’s time to talk about chastity devices for men. Would you let your lover lock you down until you begged for mercy? Is it really safe to trust your equipment to somebody else? Well, it certainly requires a level of trust …
— Why Does That Matter to My Doctors? I deserve the same health care as you. By Gabrielle Smith I’m Black, queer, and polyamorous. These things shouldn’t affect my quality of health care but, unfortunately, they do. Because my life is labeled as “alternative,” I run into endless stigma at the doctor’s office. I’ve been …
Bisexual people have poorer mental, physical and sexual health than either heterosexuals or homosexuals. We explore why. by Suryatapa Mukherjee Bisexual+ people often feel like the protagonist of the Robert Frost poem The Road Not Taken. It feels like we are standing at a fork in the road, with two paths before us, one leading …
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By Bilal Qureshi As 2019 drew to a close, Merriam-Webster declared the pronoun “they,” reconfigured as a non-binary gender identifier, its “word of the year.” The authoritative choice to cement a once-contentious usage affirmed the expansion of both the language and the politics of gender and sexuality in recent years. As of this summer, the …
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Here’s What Experts Say Plus how to check your cis-privilege and be a transgender ally. By Leah Groth We all know the most commonly used gender pronouns: she/her and he/him—they refer to a person assigned either male or female at birth, and who continues to identify that way later in life. But there’s another term …
For many suffragists, scholars have found, the freedom to choose whom and how they loved was tied deeply to the idea of voting rights. By Maya Salam In 1920, the suffragist Molly Dewson sat down to write a letter of congratulations to Maud Wood Park, who had just been chosen as the first president of …
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— How LGBTIQ+ people, and their children, become stateless By Thomas McGee No child should be denied her rights because her parents are LGBTIQ+, and no family should have to endure the indignity we did. These are the words of Roee and Adiel Kiviti, a same-sex married couple who recently won a legal challenge against …
Eight reasons why anti-trans rants are unscientific. By Hannah Seo Last month, a series of anti-trans tweets by author J.K. Rowling incited a maelstrom of anger, pain, and indignation. Specifically, Rowling opposed the phrase “people who menstruate” in an article, commenting on the social media platform, “I’m sure there used to be a word for …
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By Charlotte Moore When I think back to my first same-sex relationship, there are a few stereotypes about lesbians which I realised early on are pretty much baseless. Firstly, even if you own a vulva, everyone is pretty much inept when first faced with someone else’s. This is only cemented by the brutal lack of …
Global conversations about the impact of the pandemic on gender equality have left out sexual and gender minorities. COVID-19 is a threat multiplier. By Yvonne Su, Yuriko Cowper-Smith, Tyler Valiquette As global leaders begin to recognize the inequalities that are being exposed as a result of COVID-19, it is important to consider who is included …
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Don’t try to set them up with the only other queer person you know, who they have absolutely nothing in common with. by Rachel Miller At the end of a Pride month in which a lot of people are newly thinking about how to be a good ally, it’s a great occasion to think about …
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In need of roleplay inspo? These fantasy porn sites should do the trick. By Beck Diaz At some point in our sexual lives, we all stumble across fantasy porn or adult roleplay and decide that pretending to be someone else in bed sounds pretty damn hot. Coming fresh off a three-month-long quarantine, a spicy little …
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