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Vabbing, the New Trend Where You Use Your Own Vaginal Fluids as Perfume
According to some vabbers, dabbing a little vagina juice behind your ears will make you more sexually attractive to others
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You Need Help: Can I Go Through this Heartbreak Again?
In order to work through problems in a relationship, both parties must be present, willing, and able to do the work required. It’s a little like you’re sitting side by side in a rowboat, each holding one oar. When one person does all the rowing, you’re only going to go in circles.
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Blush and Bashful: Let’s Talk About Wedding Registries
Your loved ones want to get you the things you want, and they can only do that if you tell them what that is!
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The 68 Absolutely Gayest Ways You Met Your Gay Partner(s), According to the 2022 Reader Survey
“We met in 1995. I was in grad school and had a job at the campus women’s center. I helped her hang an art show. We later hung out at a feminist science fiction convention. We’ve been together ever since.”
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You Need Help: I Feel Like I’m My Girlfriend’s Second Choice
I want you to start 2023 feeling like your own number-one pick. That way, when the right person comes along, you’ll be ready and confident to be her number-one pick, too.
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8 Self-Help Books about Lesbian Relationships
Here are eight non-fiction self-help books about lesbian relationships, partnerships, marriage, and dating!
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Intimate Geographies: Two Femmes Kissing on a Futon
This was my first time with a girl and my first time with a fellow femme and it was hot and gentle and earnest and soft, soft, soft.
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You Need Help: I’ve Never Dated — How Do I Move Beyond Flirting?
As scary as this sounds, in order to date, you’re probably going to have to actually ask people out.
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I’m a Bisexual Woman With Genital Herpes — Here’s What’s in My Sex Bag
After my diagnosis, I thought my sex life was over. I was wrong.
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Join Autostraddle for a Virtual Workshop on COVID-19 and Queer Sexual Health
Do you have questions about sex and dating during an ongoing pandemic? Register for our virtual workshop!
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You Need Help: Can I Open My Relationship and Have Casual Sex Without Relying On The Apps?
Sure, maybe some nights you’ll encounter a confident queer who makes a beeline for you and starts chatting, but you know how you can guarantee a confident queer is in the room chatting to new people? Be The Confident Queer You Want To See At The Bar!
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You Need Help: How To Date While Dealing With Mental Illness
Dating has often felt like a game I don’t know how to play. “An elaborate puzzle,” as you say. One where the pieces are sharp as knives that cut to the core of my deepest insecurities.
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Homo Reno: 13 Tips for Keeping Your 5 Year Queer Relationship Intact While Renovating the House You Live In
Sometimes you are going to have to undertake a project during which it will be inevitable that you will scream at each other. My advice is to just kind of pretend it didn’t happen.
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You Need Help: You Fat-Shamed Your Beautiful Girlfriend
If your girlfriend wrote into this column with this story, I would tell her she should break up with you.
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I’m a Psychologist Who Didn’t See My Own Divorce Coming
Psychologists can see potential in every patient who is seeking therapy. I can’t look at my marriage without seeing all the ways we could still fix it.
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The Gay B C’s of Sex: L Is for Lesbian Bed Death
Why did the term “lesbian bed death” stick around in the queer imagination? Well, it’s catchy. And it’s scary!
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Ranking and Roasting Hinge’s New Gay Prompts
As all Hinge prompts do, these run the gamut of “vaguely cringe-inducing” to “absolutely mortifying,” and that’s before we even begin to consider whether they are, at their root, kind of pandering?
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Why Are So Many Trans Mascs Pups?
When a couple trans masc friends are into pup play, it’s a coincidence. When half of the trans men I know are into it, it’s a pattern. I began to mentally set up a bulletin board with red string to solve one question: why are so many trans mascs pups?
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25 Movies Just Perfect for Crying Through Your Divorce
Even if you’re not going through a divorce right now, here are some very pretty movies to look back at you while you blow snot bubbles into your t-shirt (no one is watching, it’s fine).
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You Need Help: I’ve Never Had a Date and I’m So Lonely
The bad news is the answer to loneliness is not necessarily found on dating apps. The good news is you can meet people other ways.