Feature image of Beating Hart, C’est La Vie, and Cinnamon Maxxine in Crash Pad Series episode 308. All of the photographs in this NSFW Sunday are from the Crash Pad. The inclusion of a visual 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!

The Visual Novel Romance Collection for Black Trans Lives is a way to get your NSFW game fix and also donate to the Okra Project at the same time! “The titles offered include Christine Love’s lesbian BDSM game Ladykiller in a Bind, Pillow Fight’s immensely popular queer visual novels We Know the Devil and Heaven Will Be Mine, Fiction Factory Games’s Arcade Spirits, Lunaris Games’s Errant Kingdom, and a demo for Perfect Garbage Studios’s upcoming adult game Love Shore,” writes Ana Valens at the Daily Dot.

Betty Blac and Kitty Stryker in Crash Pad Series episode 132

How can you start dating and fucking during covid-19, especially as things get worse and worse? Therapist Moushumi Gose writes:

“The idea is to find an intimacy buddy, or as the Washington Post called it, the support bubble. Meeting up and (safely) finding an intimacy buddy is a small suggestion for those who are struggling with loneliness and isolation. If we can safely introduce a new partner or buddy into our bubble, this can help stave off some of the long-lasting psychological effects of extended isolation.

Please note that this is different from feeling pressure around meeting up. I have heard that there is a lot of that going around on dating sites. If you are comfortable staying at home, and not feeling the need to bring anyone else into your bubble, then you most certainly should not. Do not to fall prey to peer pressure around meeting up.”

Byron DuBois and Daizy Blaze in Crash Pad Series episode 296

Here are a few single-panel NSFW comics.

Here’s how to talk to your friends – and potential partners and anyone else – before a no-mask hangout. (Please consider looking at the rate of cases in your area and making a decision based on that before considering this.)

Here’s a review of the Jack stroker and packer.

If you’re in a position to have pool sex, you still need to use protection.

Dylan Ryan and T.Pfister in Crash Pad Series episode 306

Did you recently break up with your boyfriend because you’re more gay than not but feeling weird about that? Did you recently break up with anyone and it’s hard now and you don’t know how to live with the choice to leave? At Jezebel, Brandy Jenson writes:

“The problem for most people is not a lack of self-knowledge, but a lack of will to do anything with it.

You’ve already done something about what you know, and that’s commendable. Taking actions that comport with what you’ve learned about yourself or the world is also called living with conviction and a lot of people don’t do it because it’s scary and difficult and not always much of a comfort. Conviction won’t dance with you at weddings or make you soup when you’re sick. You can’t share any inside jokes with your conviction. It’s also, unfortunately, no guarantee at all that you will find what you want simply because you have finally identified it.

Four years after leaving my marriage I have been miserable in ways I couldn’t have imagined. There have been moments I’ve felt so lonely and stupid and late to any chance at happiness that I sort of understand what the trad wives are on about. But I would make the same choice every time, because along with misery there is also joy and possibility and the knowledge that insofar as any of us are truly able to do what we want with our lives I am doing something with mine that feels honest.”

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