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26 Really Special Ways You Described Your Relationship Status In The Autostraddle Reader Survey

“I am so alone please send cats”

Riese April 10, 2014 77 Comments
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Silicone Is Sexy

VIDEO: Why you should never use silicone lube on a silicone dildo.

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Nine Sex Toys and Items That Can Fit In Your Bra

These small travel-sized sex toys and safer sex items can fit in your bra. (Or pocket.)

Ryan Yates April 6, 2014 9 Comments
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is So Excited To Kiss You

Electrosex, flirting, orgasms (and worrying less about orgasms), questions about jealousy, the word “pussy” and more.

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Sex Toys

You Need Help: Getting The Best Bang For Your Buck With Affordable Sex Toys

How (and where) to buy used sex toys, good budget-friendly toys and the best things to go big or save up for.

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Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Outlaw

The Outlaw dildo is big enough that it takes some getting used to. But you can have so much fun getting used to it.

Guest April 2, 2014 8 Comments
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Lap You Up

Biased sex research, faking orgasms, female ejaculation, pea mousse and BDSM and more.

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What to use to slap, spank, flog, paddle, hit and more.

Ryan Yates March 30, 2014 10 Comments
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Top 5 Movies to Watch Before You Break Up with Someone

Please don’t watch all of these in one day. You’ll die.

Brittani March 29, 2014 41 Comments
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Listling Without Commentary: How You Met Your Significant Other(s)

“At a meeting of Xena: Warrior Princess in Brazil”

Riese March 27, 2014 91 Comments
Breakups

Top Five Ways to Avoid Dealing With Your Ex

So you thought it would be super cute and convenient and special to date your roomie-lover-friend-roommate-teammate-co-worker but now you’re broken up and you can’t get away from each other? Here are some tips to make the whole process easier.

Helen March 27, 2014 35 Comments
Sex

“Porn Studies” Is Fucking Rad

The first academic journal about porn just launched and it’s pretty important.

Ryan Yates March 27, 2014 8 Comments
Sex

Top Five Ways To Restrain Your Sex Partner (NSFW)

If you’re into that kind of thing, restraining people is a super-fun sexual activity! Here are five ways to do it.

Ryan Yates March 26, 2014 2 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Would Go Down On You In A Theatre

Lesbians and casual sex, the history of dental dams, how technology is ruining sex now and more.

Ryan Yates March 23, 2014 29 Comments
Dating

You Need Help: To Text, or Not To Text?

You can’t focus your mind and make her text. You only have control over your fingers.

A.E. Osworth March 20, 2014 19 Comments
Sex

This is What Sex Ed Looks Like in My Queer Feminist Utopia

“We’re all normal, as long as we are having sex in ways that are consensual, risk-aware and injury free. Our bodies? They’re normal too. Beautiful, even. That should be the core concept in any comprehensive sex education, in my opinion.”

A.E. Osworth March 19, 2014 53 Comments
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Five Girls You Will Bring Home In Your Twenties

“Her dog is super cool, though. You think you might still be sleeping with her because her dog is so goshdarn awesome.”

Kate March 17, 2014 120 Comments
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Does Cool Stuff To Your Brain and Body

Dating friends, apps for improving at oral sex and finding someone to practice with, types of orgasms and more.

Ryan Yates March 16, 2014 12 Comments
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You Need Help: You Fell In Love With A Girl and It’s Exploding Your Whole Life

So you fell in love with a girl and it upended your life with family, kids and religion. What now?

Rachel March 13, 2014 28 Comments
First Person Love + Sex

Know Me Where It Hurts: Sex, Kink, and Cerebral Palsy

But now my body, which had spent so many years letting me down and making decisions without my consent, had gone and done something absolutely right — and done it better. It had done something other people’s bodies, “healthy” bodies, hadn’t been able to.

Carrie March 11, 2014 77 Comments
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