Welcome back to our Anonymous Sex Diaries series where queer and trans people from around the world let us into a seven day snippet of their sex, love and dating lives.

Day 1
You’re sitting on the bed, your auburn hair in a messy ponytail. I wrap a blanket around you, and kiss your cheek. You sip your ginger/turmeric/peach tea, and I light the fir/pine/cilantro candle I bought you. There are many holy trinities. I want tonight to be special. As I was making us latkes earlier for Hanukkah, you got a bit melancholy and cynical talking about this week of rekindling our love and sex life. You expressed feeling pressured by the time constraint, by how busy our lives are, but recognized these feelings were influenced by PMSing and a stres...