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.
Sometimes you just want to have sex with your friends, and not have it be anything else. But friends with benefits isn’t the same as no-strings-attached sex. You’re friends, not…
How to practice safe sexting, how to handle a toxic person, learning a new approach to empathy, the ways online dating leads to stronger bonds and more.
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