5 Rules For Better Online-Dating Interactions
Online dating is a beast. If you’re not careful, it can consume your life, with its alluring promises and gameified interface. This is especially true if, like many of us, you’re just not finding it...
View Article34 Nice Things to Do For Your Long-Distance Partner
Long-distance relationships are more prevalent than ever, so there are more people than ever who live every day in a perpetual state of missing someone. That sucks – but on the plus side, because of...
View ArticleAn Erotic Hypnosis FAQ
Of all the kinks I’ve explored in my diverse and storied sex life, I think hypnokink is one of the ones I get the most questions about. Sometimes people seem flummoxed when I mention it, as if they...
View ArticleMy 11 Must-Haves For Chronic Pain
Y’all, it has been a tough month for me with regards to my chronic pain. I’ve spent so many days in bed, asked so many people to help me with basic tasks because my sore body couldn’t accomplish them,...
View ArticleMonthly Faves: Zumio, Ziggy, & Zines
Happy Halloween! Here are some notable highlights from my October… Sex toys • I don’t have much new stuff to report here because I’m a curmudgeonly old sex toy reviewer who’s set in her ways (i.e....
View ArticleSalacious Sightseeing & Titillating Tourism
I’ve been lucky enough to travel quite a bit in my time. My parents did a lot of work-related travel when I was a kid (crisis management sojourns to foreign countries for my dad, press junkets in New...
View Article10 Ways Vibrators Can Be Therapeutic (+ a Giveaway!)
Photo via Bellesa It would be easy to think, comparing my work to that of my journalism-school colleagues now reporting on business and politics, that what I do is comparatively frivolous. Sex writing...
View ArticleRemotely Helpful, Part 1: Flexible & Delightful
This is Remotely Helpful, a new mini series of blog posts where I’m writing up my best tips for working from home, ascertained from years and years of it! Here are my first 3 major suggestions… #1:...
View ArticleRemotely Helpful, Part 2: Locations & Logistics
Here’s part 2 of my 3-part series on working from home! I’ve got some more tips for you today… #4: Mix up your location from time to time. I know in my last post I proselytized the joys of having a...
View ArticleRemotely Helpful, Part 3: Buddies & Boundaries
I’m back with more tips for working from home! These final 3 are crucial (but, frankly, all of them have been)… #7: Find ways to combat loneliness. Working from home is lonely as hell sometimes!...
View ArticleI Have Psoriasis… and I’m Still Hot
When my dermatologist diagnosed me with psoriasis, she stared sadly into my eyes and intoned, “There is no cure. This is a lifelong condition.” Her grave demeanor made this skin condition seem like a...
View ArticleHow to Last Longer in Bed
Ah yes, the perennial question sex educators get asked every day. It’s almost as ubiquitous as “Is my fetish normal?” and “Does penis size matter?” It’s that men’s-magazine staple, that...
View Article6 Porn Games You Can Play Right Now
Communally watching fisting porn at Kate Sinclaire’s Airbnb before the Playground Conference in 2015. Do you ever watch porn like it was a cinematic adventure, rather than a perfunctory wank tool?...
View ArticleAnnouncing… My Book Deal!!!
Signing my book contract at the Library Bar. Photo by my sweetheart Matt. Yes, friends, I have good news: after many months of preparation and negotiation, I have signed a book deal with Laurence King...
View Article12 Days of Girly Juice 2019: 12 Femme Essentials
Hello! Today kicks off 12 Days of Girly Juice, my annual year-end wrap-up series where I highlight everything that captured my attention most all year, from songs to events to sex sessions. The first...
View Article12 Days of Girly Juice 2019: 11 Favorite Blog Posts
By the end of this month, I will have written and published 133 blog posts in 2019. I am a fiend; somebody stop me!! (Except don’t; this blog has become my main source of income in recent years.) To...
View Article12 Days of Girly Juice 2019: 10 Perfect Sex Songs
Music is important. It’s a love language, a mood-setter, a spirit-lifter. When nothing else can make me feel sexy, music often can – which is part of why I highlight 10 of my favorite sexy and...
View Article12 Days of Girly Juice 2019: 9 Best New Sex Toys
Ah, sex toys. What would I ever do without them? (Answer: have unsatisfying orgasms and a worse relationship with my body, probably.) I like to reflect at year’s end on my favorite newly-acquired sex...
View Article12 Days of Girly Juice 2019: 8 Brilliant Books
This instalment of 12 Days of Girly Juice used to highlight my favorite things I tweeted all year, but you know what? I’d rather talk about books. (However, if you were wondering, my favorite tweets...
View Article12 Days of Girly Juice 2019: 7 Bangin’ Selfies
Ah yes. It’s time for what is possibly the most self-indulgent instalment of 12 Days of Girly Juice: the one where I highlight some of my favorite and most meaningful selfies of the past year. Read on...
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