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AF+ Dating

Is Refusing To Share My Location a Red Flag?

A request from a younger girlfriend has a reader wondering if her aversion to location sharing is a generational conflict. Also: how to keep a relationship sexy without sex and how to celebrate newfound queer desire and forgive our younger selves.

the team March 29, 2024 10 Comments
Cheating Is Not Abuse: Bette and Candace almost kiss in close up from season one of The L Word
Relationships

Cheating Is Not Abuse

Consensual sex between adults should never be treated as a crime. It might be a horrible betrayal; it’s still not abuse.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 28, 2024 32 Comments
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Sex

You Need Help: How Do I Get More Comfortable With Dirty Talk?

We learn so much about how people act during sex from TV and movies, and those people always seem to know exactly when to moan or how to say the right thing during sex. Of course they do — it’s been written for them!

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 26, 2024 5 Comments
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AF+ Relationships

I Think My Girlfriend Is Drugging My Dog

In this week’s advice box, a relationship plagued by dog problems and possible dishonesty, how to support a partner convinced they’re worthless without a job, and safe sex for poly people.

the team March 22, 2024 10 Comments
Sex

My Girlfriend and I Got High and Came Up With Role Plays for You To Try With Your Girlfriend

The scattered concepts we devised were a combination of erotic and nonsensical and now I have tasked myself with turning these notes into full scenes for your enjoyment.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 22, 2024 4 Comments
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AF+ Friendship

Help! My Friends Won’t Shut Up

Plus advice about leaving a controlling partner and getting second dates.

the team March 15, 2024 2 Comments
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Dating

25 Things About Being Chronically Single

“I’m not sure that people who’ve spent most of their lives in relationships receive this same type of ‘Why?'”

swan huntley March 15, 2024 21 Comments
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Dating

You Need Help: All I Want Is a Relationship But I Can’t Make it Past the First Date

“How do I somehow give off that I’m girlfriend material? I just want to be wanted back for a change.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 12, 2024 9 Comments
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Sex

What’s a Nudes Protocol and Why You Should Have One

A nudes protocol (or whatever you wanna call it) is a personalized framework of rules about how your digital sexual data should be handled.

Summer Tao March 11, 2024
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AF+ Relationships

Did My Partner Trick Me Into a Lifetime of Sexless Monogamy?

In today’s A+ advice box: is a miscommunication over polyamory really the issue here or is your relationship simply broken and toxic? Plus; advice about feeling insecure when texting a partner and getting into being handy!

the team March 8, 2024 3 Comments
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Dating

Top 15 Questions I’ve Asked to Vet People on Dates

10. I’m a bit ashamed of this, but it’s the honest truth. I could never be with a Swiftie hater. At best, I can deal with indifference.

Em Win March 8, 2024 7 Comments
Dating

Top 15 Strangest Things I’ve Done (or Have Been Done to Me) on a First Date

9. Got rejected because I didn’t pay enough attention to someone’s dog
8. Got rejected because I paid too much attention to someone’s dog

Drew Burnett Gregory March 7, 2024 9 Comments
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Dating

You Need Help: I Don’t Get Excited To See My Girlfriend

“I feel guilty about being so confused and not being able to decide if I like her or not. I’m worried that I’m leading her on.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 5, 2024 8 Comments
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Sex

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.

Riese March 1, 2024 56 Comments
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Sex

How To Handle Traumatic Resurgence During Sex

Trauma has a way of resurfacing in vulnerable moments. It can happen even if there’s no relationship between that trauma and sex.

Summer Tao February 29, 2024 7 Comments
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Dating

You Need Help: How Do I Date With Devastatingly Low Self-Esteem?

Approach cultivating a friendship with yourself as you would with other people.

Em Win February 27, 2024 4 Comments
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AF+ Relationships

I Confronted My Girlfriend About Cheating On Me, She Responded By Coming Out as Poly

Is this ever an okay way for a poly relationship to begin?

the team February 23, 2024 3 Comments
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AF+ Sex

Anonymous Sex Diary: A Couple Rekindles Their Sex Life with “Intimacy Boot Camp”

We’re both trying to avoid the lesbian bed death trope, hoping to be remembered in history as lovers, not “really good friends.”

Guest February 21, 2024 4 Comments
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Breakups

Salons and Divorce Doulas: How Queers Are Fighting the Trauma and Stigma of Divorce

“I’ve been ostracized, people don’t even know my side of the story. And they just stopped talking to me because they’ve talked to my ex.”

Carmen Phillips and Nico
February 20, 2024 10 Comments
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Dating

You Need Help: I Want To Ask My Couple Friends Out but Don’t Know if They’re Poly

“I have a crush on a lesbian couple I know, and I want to test the waters to see if they might be interested in dating, but I don’t want to make it weird if they’re monogamous.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 20, 2024 3 Comments
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