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Is There a “Right Way” To Have Public Sex?

Your girlfriend loved gym bathroom sex but you’re not so sure you wanna do it again. Also: how to feel…

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Oct 3, 2025

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love + sex

Mondo Fetiche Doesn’t See Why Queer Porn Can’t Also Be Arthouse Cinema

Billed as artcore fetish film and “a creative love affair between modern kink and vintage cult cinema,” Mondo Fetiche’s popping color palettes and self-aware cultural pastiches add a fascinating new…

Rachel —

Apr 20, 2021

asexuality

you need help

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You Need Help: How Do I Explore Casual Sex If I’m Demisexual?

If you’re feeling sexual desire for friends or if you like the idea of a “friends with benefits” situation, then it seems that most widely-accepted definition of “demisexual” still encompasses…

Ro White —

Apr 13, 2021

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#PolyamoryProblems: How to Approach Safer Sex with Multiple Partners

Polyamory is all fun and games until you get an STI from one partner and then your other partner shames you for it. STIs aren’t fun, but they do happen.…

DaemonumX —

Apr 5, 2021

lesbian health

reproductive health

A light-skinned person wearing sleep shorts and an oversized t-shirt sits on the edge of a bed, hands clasped over their crotch protectively. They might have vaginismus?

love + sex

Is Vaginismus Making Penetration Painful? Here’s What It Is and How to Treat It

Vaginismus can get in the way of essential practices and pleasurable activities, like penetrative sex, penetrative masturbation, inserting tampons or menstrual cups and receiving pelvic exams. But with the right…

Ro White —

Apr 2, 2021

mental health

so you want to try therapy

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health

So You Want to Try Sex Therapy

Sex therapy is one of those things that sounds simple on the surface, but is really much more widely encompassing that one might originally suspect.

Christina Tesoro —

Mar 23, 2021

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Queer Erotica

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love + sex

S L I C K: Plug and Play

“I picked up the tentacle attachment and clicked it into place. For a moment, nothing happened – then, the tip began to move, seeking out something to touch, and the…

unitywrites —

Mar 5, 2021

NSFW

Queer Erotica

A fat queer femme lays down in the darkness, her arm extended to snap a selfie with her phone, which streams down a surreal glow over her face. Her hand cups the back of her head which has long, wavy blue hair.

love + sex

S L I C K: Hank & Melanie

She stared at the camera as she slowly took off her dress; she liked the way Hank looked at her through the screen, his mouth parted, his eyes wide. She…

Vanessa —

Feb 11, 2021

kink

you need help

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You Need Help: I’m Queer, Kinky, and Monogamous — Will I Be Alone Forever?

You need to find ways to happiness whether you remain single or whether you find your ultimate kinky monogamous life partner.

Vanessa —

Feb 9, 2021

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Working Girls: Luxury Escort Charlie Levine on the Rise of Women Clients In Sex Work

"Women are so socialized — successfully or not — to be objects of desire, not subjects of desire, on a sexual marketplace."

Riese

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Our Sex/Life

The Mid-30s Divorcées Who Once Built a Sex Throne

From the friend zone to the throne room, a tale as old as time.

Sex/Life —

May 13, 2025

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What’s the Best Time To Have Sex?

8 a.m.? 8 p.m.? Noon? Midnight?! When is the best literal time to have sex? A bunch of queers sound off.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Apr 22, 2025

best of

epic

25 Streaming Movies With Hot Lesbian Sex Scenes

Here are some of the most memorable movies in the canon of “films that have significant lesbian sex in them.”

Riese —

Jun 11, 2024

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Lesbian Sex: Your 15 Favorite Ways To Have It

How do lesbians have sex? Well, we have an actual answer for you: here are the 15 sex acts we consider a regular part of our sex lives.

Riese —

Mar 1, 2024

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