Community, Care, and a Femme Sex Coven
“It was everything I had been looking for, only better, because it came along with smooching and cuddling and spanking.”
Poly Pocket: Wholeness Doesn’t Mean One Thing
Here’s how a 23-year-old mixed race Asian genderqueer polyamorous bisexual femme who just moved to Brooklyn does poly.
Bottoms Up: Used
“When I’m being used for sex, I feel like a vessel through which pleasure flows, hot and bursting.”
What I Wish I’d Learned in Sex Ed
Your curriculum isn’t “one size fits all” if “all” means “nondisabled straight people.”
NSFW Sunday Is All Possibility
Netflix and relationships, science finally learns about the clitoris (sort of), the We-Vibe “scandal,” what we owe to sex worker activism and more.
Queer Crip Love Fest: The Two Great Loves of My Life
“There are people who, when I say I have a chronic illness and try to talk about it, will be like ‘Well, you’re just an adult now.’ I mean, yes, but also, this is real. It does keep me at home a lot. I do have a weakened immune system. I’m not making this up.”
View From The Top: Topping While Butch
It took me years to settle into the idea that masculinity and topping were actually, authentically my identities.
NSFW Sunday Doesn’t Believe In Sleepovers
Finding love as a young trans woman, platonic sleepovers, your sex life and your work life, Estelle X on the future of queer representation and more.
Poly Pocket: Polyamory and Recovery
How a a 28-year-old white genderfluid bisexual in recovery from an eating disorder/anxiety/depression does polyamory.
Bottoms Up: You Are Not My Dom
Somehow, self-identifying as a submissive makes some potential doms think I am their sub.
55 Gayest Ways You Met Your Significant Other(s), According to the Autostraddle Reader Survey
“Smashing the patriarchy and organizing for a rape crisis center on our college campus while also taking a gender studies class. Also I was a data point in her thesis. It was about gender neutral housing.”
NSFW Sunday Is Into Anal Sex
How to have anal sex for the first time, queer love in the anthropocene, a free online sex conference, fetish wear and fashion and more.
View From The Top: Is Kink The New Vanilla?
You just have to be honest about what you’re looking for, and keep going after it.
NSFW Sunday Is Taking Nudes With A Feminist Lens
Safer sexting from a feminist perspective, everything about your ex, brains on BDSM, whether you need to wash your hands before fingering someone and more.
39 Truly Innovative Ways You Described Your Relationship Status On The Autostraddle Reader Survey
“Desperately pining for the cute queer Hot Topic employee who complimented my yellow doc martens the other day”
Poly Pocket: The Communication Cushion
Here’s how a 28-year-old Arab-American queer demisexual cis woman living in the urban Midwest does ethical non-monogamy.
Bottoms Up: About Last Night
“I guess I had a lot of opinions that night because you told me that I was especially chatty. I told you it was because you weren’t giving me anything to keep my mouth busy.”
NSFW Sunday Is All About Tinder
How to love or fuck each astrological sign, every idea you ever wanted to hear about Tinder, dueling opinions on queer sex as resistance, homoerotic lingerie ads and more.
Queer Crip Love Fest: Radically Vulnerable Feminist Pep Talk
“We met on the first day of high school. I was drawn to her for some reason. She was reading; that might have been it. She had glasses; that could have been it, too.”
A Balance In Subspace
Sometimes, being in kinky subspace opens old wounds from an abusive relationship — but sometimes, it can give you the power to close them.