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Sex Toys

Have A Slick Holigay: A Guide To Buying Lube For Yourself And Others

The kinds of things you should ask yourself when in the market for some lube. Plus product recommendations to get you started.

A.E. Osworth December 8, 2013 37 Comments
Sex Toys

A 20th-Anniversary Interview With The Founders Of Babeland

“If we could each have authentic understanding and acceptance of our sexuality and identity, that would make a sex-positive world.”

A.E. Osworth December 8, 2013 19 Comments
Sex Toys

Herstory In Our Pants: The 1950s-Era Handy Hannah Vitalator

In the first edition of Herstory In Our Pants, we put herstory literally into our pants with a review of a retro vibrator.

Ryan Yates December 7, 2013 29 Comments
Relationships

How to Keep a Girl for 10 Years: 5 Steps To A Better Y’all!

In my first installment of How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years, I explore the notion of solidarity through individualism, selflessness and creativity!

RobynC December 5, 2013 91 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Sext You All Night

This week on NSFW Sunday: sexy terminology, lesbian sex scenes, representation, vaginal knitting and more.

Ryan Yates December 1, 2013 27 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Be Pinned Down

This week on NSFW Sunday: why we should be celebrating good sex in literature, naked photos, Femme Sex Week and more.

Ryan Yates November 24, 2013 12 Comments
Friendship

Dear Queer Diary: Friends That Journal Together

The briefest safari through the overgrown pathways of the fearsome Amazon indicates that there is an entire genus of the journal family that is marketed towards journaling partners—of both the platonic and romantic varieties.

Maggie November 21, 2013 15 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Interested In Orgasms

This week on NSFW Sunday: orgasms in your brain, the ultimate gateway vibrator, Project Bush and more.

Ryan Yates November 17, 2013 5 Comments
Friendship

On Navigating the Unexpected Death of a Queer Friend

“You may have lost someone who may have meant different things to you than they did to other people, but at the end of the day you know who they were to you, and perhaps what they meant to your community of queers.”

Lauren November 13, 2013 15 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Can’t Get You Out Of Her Head

This week on NSFW Sunday: your brain’s sexual response, talking about sexual fantasies, Star Wars vibrators and more.

Ryan Yates November 10, 2013 7 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows Boobs Are Fun To Look At, Regardless

This week on NSFW Sunday: scissoring, things that are sexy, boobs, coming out later in life and more.

Ryan Yates November 3, 2013 9 Comments
Friendship

Dear Queer Diary: On Pens As Secret Handshakes

According to one of my favorite children’s books, “The ballpoint pen has been the single biggest factor in the decline of Western Civilization. It makes the written word cheap, fast, and totally without character.”

Maggie October 31, 2013 31 Comments
Relationships

13 Ways to Make Your Long-Distance Relationship The Most Awesome Part of Your Life

You want to touch them, smell them and, if you’re me, bite their ear. Why don’t the forces of geography and physics rally to both your cries and fold the world up like origami until the front doors of your homes kiss?

Morgan M October 29, 2013 32 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Thinking About You In Bed

This week on NSFW Sunday: interpreting human sexuality, modernist pickup lines, the lesbian sex scene in “Blue is the Warmest Color” and more.

Ryan Yates October 27, 2013 13 Comments
Sex

5 Fisting Tips For A Happy (Belated) International Fisting Day!

Because every day should be International Fisting Day.

Ryan Yates October 22, 2013 21 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Likes When You Leave Marks

This week on NSFW Sunday: what counts as sex, the history of orgies, online dating, how to have anal and more.

Ryan Yates October 20, 2013 6 Comments
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Sex Toys

Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Ammo Mei

I don’t even have words for how great this vibrator is.

Guest October 14, 2013 1 Comment
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Sunday Likes Girls Outside

Sometimes you need to get outside and remember who you are and what you want to be. And ogle.

Ryan Yates October 13, 2013 20 Comments
Sex

Listling: Most Hilarious Synonyms For “Vagina”

“4. Beaver cake.”

Ryan Yates October 11, 2013 43 Comments
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Sex

Bondage 101: How To Tie Someone Up

How to tie someone up when you don’t know how to tie someone up.

Ryan Yates October 10, 2013 22 Comments
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