Feature image of @the_estelle_x via rodeoh. All of the photographs in this NSFW Sunday are courtesy of RodeoH. The inclusion of a photograph here should not be interpreted as an assertion of the model’s gender identity or sexual orientation. If you’re a photographer or model and think your work would be a good fit for NSFW Sunday, please email carolyn at autostraddle dot com.
Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
+ Setting a thirst trap? Here’s how to take good selfies.
+ “‘There’s no right or wrong way to pierce your nipple—left, right, both—there’s no script,’ Thompson says. ‘It’s whatever the fuck you want to do and however the fuck you want to do it.’” If you’re thinking about nipple piercings, opt for barbells over rings, remember it can take six months to a year to heal, and leave it alone while it does.
+ Money in relationships is complicated.
+ Revelations from this exploration of millennial dating patterns and technology: people still call people they’re seeing on the actual phone (?????); taking hours to text back is a bad tactic; actually put thought into your profile; and the best first dates involve food, conversation, and time limits.
+ Check out these apps for sexual health.
+ Love spells are complicated. (Don’t mess with free will, okay?)
+ Sexting is great for relationships as long as you trust each other.
+ Did you learn about (hetero) sex from Jean M. Auel? You’re not alone, writes Kelly Faircloth (and same):
“I wound up getting my practical sex education from Jean M. Auel’s The Valley of Horses, a book about a couple of Cro-Magnons in love and screwing madly at the dawn of human history. And I’m not the only one, either. Though I was a high school freshman when I discovered Auel, I could relate to writer Lizz Huerta’s San Diego City Beat piece, in which she recalled hitting the book’s first sex scene as a preteen growing up in a house long on warnings and short on details: ‘I was 12 and it blew my fucking mind.’”
