Ryan Yates was the NSFW Editor (2013–2018) and Literary Editor for Autostraddle.com, with bylines in Nylon, Refinery29, The Toast, Bitch, The Daily Beast, Jezebel, and elsewhere. They live in Los Angeles and also on twitter and instagram.
Settling, sending “we need to talk” with no context and texting your ghosts are all boring. Plus: how sex workers are leading the fight against mass surveillance, anal sex stats,…
Rising STI rates, what you need to know about at-home testing kits, the best way to tell a partner you have an STI, why supplements won’t work and more.
“Where are the boundaries between story and real life, between consciousness and an idea?” Plus, the petty errors that pull you out of a piece of writing, how books became…
Why scary moves make you horny, how to get candle wax (from play or ambiance) out of anything, strategies for (not) sending regrettable texts and more.