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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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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 sexier while living with long Covid.

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Oct 3, 2025

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The Trans Brooklyn Dykes With a Significant Height Difference Who Enjoy Twilight Cosplay

“Definitely when I gave you herpes is the most memorable time we had sex, but it’s not my favorite. Maybe it’s when we had sex on the dance floor as…

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Oct 2, 2025

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What Is the Brat/Brat Tamer Kink Dynamic All About?

This style of submission and its associated dynamic is often maligned due to cultural perceptions or people’s bad experiences with a brat.

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Sep 17, 2025

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I Feel Like Leaving When My Sexual Partners Require Me To Come

How can you convince your hookups to stop trying to make you have an orgasm? Also, tips on maintaining a writing practice for people with ADHD.

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Sep 5, 2025

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How To Explore Pregnancy Fetish and Kink During Pregnancy

Whether exploring pregnancy fetish or embarking on kinky exploration with a pregnant pleasure vessel, your options for satiating your desires are as limitless as your imagination.

Madison Young —

Aug 20, 2025

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The Formerly Poly Fortysomethings Who U-Hauled Into The Best, Wettest Sex Of Their Lives

“I just remember how covered in sawdust we were. And I lost a sock at the bathhouse. It was kind of chaotic.”

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Aug 14, 2025

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The Married New Englanders Debating an Erotic Tattoo Gun Situation

“We used a lot of different toys in the beginning, and I think that was because I personally had a lot of toys that I wanted to share with you…

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Aug 7, 2025

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The Slut4Slut Couple F*cking Through a “Wanna Try” List

“I think at the top of the list is rope. But that one’s harder ‘cause you can’t just try it, you need to know what you’re doing.”

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Jul 31, 2025

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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."

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

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

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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.

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Apr 22, 2025

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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.”

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Oct 11, 2023

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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.

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Aug 15, 2023

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