The Atlantic

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Season 3 of Amazon’s show is funnier than ever as it portrays a couple negotiating serious issues with a smirk.

Woman

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Q It’s been several years since my husband has been willing to have sex with me. Our relationship is very unhappy, but even so, I would love to have physical contact with him and doing it for myself isn’t the same. The worst thing is that he pleasure

OUT

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When we think of the quintessential chosen family, we usually have a certain picture in mind. Some very Lost Boys- or Breakfast Club-type ensemble of cool misfits, eating Chinese takeout together on Thanksgiving Day in a dirty one-bedroom apartment.

DIVA

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Remember: start small, go slow and don’t be stingy with the water-based lube… This silicone vibrator is ideal for newbies. Pass the remote control to your partner to up the ass-play ante. £95 from pleasuregardenshop.co.uk Multiple options mean you ca

OUT

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BEFORE THE PITTSBURGH EAGLE CLOSED in 2012, the bar posed as the home of the local leather and fetish scene, much like Eagle bars all across the globe. It was there, on one fateful night, that Boy John Urso (who would go on to become International Co

City Press

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Earlier this year, statistics by intimate lifestyle company Lelo were released about the orgasmic experience. It came as no surprise to me that cisgender, heterosexual (cishet) men were the ones cumming the most. Delve deeper into the numbers and you

DIVA

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I’m 33 and I had so many damn epiphanies about life and sex in my mid to late 20s. I grew up in a very conservative environment that wasn’t at all accepting of LGBTQI lifestyles. I was always secretly attracted to girls and I did explore with them at

The Knot Missouri & Kansas Weddings Magazine

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MY HUSBAND AND I RECONNECTED WHEN I FOUND MYSELF SINGLE AND PREGNANT. HE RAISED MY SON AS HIS OWN, AND WE ELOPED AFTER HAVING OUR SECOND CHILD. LEAH + NICHOLAS WE DECIDED TO BUY A HOUSE SOON AFTER GETTING ENGAGED. WE KNEW WE WANTED TO MAKE THE INVEST

OUT

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SO, YOU DECIDED TO BE A WOMAN. Congratulations! What a stress-free, chill decision to make—one that you obviously reached through careful, calm consideration and not an LSD-fueled night of sobbing introspection. Or: Maybe you’ve spent your whole life

NW Magazine

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When the bed’s rocking, don’t come a-knockin’! “Rumour has it a threesome went down between one bride and two of the grooms!” tells our insider. One of the guys claims he was really uncomfortable with his wife after she pinned him down and tried b

Attitude Magazine

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My secondary school science teacher brought his actual new-born baby into an impromptu sex education class, plonked the little tot on the wooden bench and thoroughly detailed the process that led to him becoming a father. At the time I thought he was

Reason

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ONE OF THE weirdest things about social progress is that it almost immediately gets so normalized that we forget how awful even the recent past could be. Nowhere is this truer than when it comes to what used to be called the “love that dare not speak

DIVA

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I’m bisexual, and while most of my serious, long-term relationships have been with men, I’m also really attracted to women and non-binary people. Before coronavirus, I had an active and interesting sex life. In the last few years, I’ve started going

Women's Health Australia

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“Sexuality is for ourselves, first and foremost,” says sex coach and Lovehoney ambassador Tamica Wilder. “Acting as our own best lover and focusing on our erotic expression is paramount, [because] falling in love with sex again means falling in love

North & South

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SAY “CARMEN”, and most Wellingtonians immediately know who you mean. Even those who don’t recognise the name know the woman memorialised in the Cuba St precinct’s pedestrian green-light silhouettes. In the 60s and 70s, Carmen Rupe was at the heart of

The Atlantic

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Plus: how white parents perpetuate racism, stay-at-home dads and masculinity, and a couple who disagrees on whether to have more children

Time Magazine International Edition

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THERE’S AN OLD-SCHOOL MENTALITY FOR PARENTS, ESPEcially if you play basketball, that when your son is born, he’s going to follow in your footsteps. Zaire, who’s now 18 and a key player for one of the best high school teams in the country, quickly met

Amateur Photographer

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The 13 April edition of AP featured an article on the recent Don McCullin exhibition at Tate Britain, including a photo entitled ‘Starving 24-year-old mother with child, Biafra, 1968'. Accompanying it was a discussion by Alison Baskerville, in which

Entertainment Weekly

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French singer Christine and the Queens (née Héloïse Letissier) is poised for a U.S. breakout. She details the ecstasy and anger that inspired her fierce new record, Chris (out now).

Girlfriend Australia

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While it might be easy for society to label you with a specific name, your sexuality isn’t actually defined by who you choose to have sex with; rather, it’s about how you feel and how you choose to identify yourself. “Some people are attracted to onl

SFX

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▸ RELEASED 4 JANUARY 384 pages | Paperback/ebook ▸ Author Akshaya Raman ▸ Publisher Hot Key Books There are many tired tropes in fantasy – a medieval Europe-type setting, anyone? – and it’s refreshing when authors manage to expand or subvert them. It

DIVA

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“As a vintage-loving femme, I sometimes feel my lesbianism has its very own cloak of invisibility, trimmed with faux fur and rhinestones, naturally. Whether it’s a bouncer denying me entrance to a gay bar because I ‘don’t look like a lezza’, stranger

Domus

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Vivendo a New York, ho occasione di assistere al modo in cui la comunità LGBTQ+ vive l’identità di genere. Nel progetto di una toilette pubblica per un piccolo lotto triangolare, ho immaginato una società attenta alla comunità LGBTQ+ e mi sono resa c

India Today

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Life is unfair if you're a woman and a support system of female friends and a bartender-cum-friend to feed you shots any time, helps. Or so I'm led to believe by Four More Shots Please! (Amazon Prime) The new show by Pritish Nandy Communications foll

The Advocate

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In “Are Queer People Making Marriage Better?” (May/June 2019) editor in chief Zach Stafford (above) posits consensual nonmonogamy is key to changing the institution. A 2005 study showed more than 40 percent of gay couples were openly nonmonogamous (v

ArtAsiaPacific

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A massive exhibition of LGBTQ art, “Spectrosynthesis II: Exposure of Tolerance” was the sequel to the 2017 iteration staged by the Hong Kong-based Sunpride Foundation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei. Featuring 58 artists working in a rang

The Advocate

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The colorful patterns and layered textures of Alok Vaid-Menon’s third fashion collection riffs on traditional Hindu designs, early Hollywood glamour, 1980s shoulder-padded excess, stuffy Victorian-era collars, and sexy short-shorts—all filtered throu

NPR

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Summer is a time when kids claim more independence. And parents worry about keeping them out of trouble. A new generation of resources covers topics like puberty, consent and STDs.

The Advocate

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In November, Palana Belken became the first out transgender person to be elected to a city council anywhere in New Hampshire. The 30-year-old Belken defeated incumbent Sandra Keans, who had been on Rochester City Council for three decades. Belken, w

Her World Singapore

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It comes in different shapes and sizes. At times, our reluctance to say “vulva” or “vagina” shrouds our bodies and sexuality in secrecy. Today, the female anatomy has become the topic of female empowerment, with women taking a wholesome attitude towa