This week’s S L I C K is curated and edited by Carolyn Yates.
Content notes: dating apps, long distance, phone sex, vibrator
If we were being honest:
Me: 31, a tiny studio in Denver, recently heartbroken, bored and lonely, and my friends keep telling me to put myself out there, so I'm going to try, begrudgingly.
But this is a dating app, so here’s what I actually write:
Me: 31, Denver, looking for new friends or maybe someone to make me smile while we walk around the natural history museum looking at dinosaur fossils. You: 30s, wherever, hair that falls in your face and you have to push it back with a cocky smile. That’s the only requirement.
Simple, prescriptive, kind of embarrassing. I know that as a queer woman, you'...
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