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Wet for Her for You: A 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

Happy Holidays hotties! It’s time for my quick and easy gift guide filled with toys from my favorites — the babes at Wet For Her! I went through the site with a perfectly manicured nail to find the best gifts to give yourself, your partner, and even for playing sexy virtual Santa with your friends.

By Shelli Nicole| December 7, 2020 | 3 Comments
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NEW MERCH ALERT: Tees! Sweatshirts! Stickers! Face Masks! QUEER! MAGNETIC! POETRY!

Buy something for you, your pod friends, your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend, your mom who’s secretly gay, your best friend who you’re secretly gay for, and your polycule.

By Sarah| December 1, 2020 | 18 Comments
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Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2020: Presents Produce Serotonin, Right? RIGHT???

“What I would most like is to sleep in a glass coffin in a secluded forest dale doted on by chirping woodland creatures until the butch of my dreams comes to wake me with a kiss in roughly mid-2021, but excepting that, I will take these things.”

By the team| November 24, 2020 | 20 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Seasonal Sex Toys That Are Both Naughty and Nice

Whether it’s an affordable treat, something sexy for you and yours to share in bed, or a luxury investment in your pleasure to reward yourself for making it through this year, add one more stop to your shopping this season and you and your activity partners will be thanking you for it all year long.

By Rachel| December 10, 2019 | 2 Comments
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Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2019: We’re So Tired, Will These Things Make Us Less Tired?

Here’s a brief glimpse into the deepest materialistic desires of Team Autostraddle – these are all the things we want besides a very long nap!

By Vanessa| November 25, 2019 | 41 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: What Do You Get the Sex Enthusiast Who Has Everything?

So, what do you get the person that already seems to own everything? Something weird, my pals!

By Archie| December 14, 2018 | 6 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Fancy Wedding Gifts, but for Your Single Friend for the Holidays Instead

How unfair is it that everyone who gets married and has a wedding shower gets a lot of nice fancy home goods (including a KitchenAid!!!) and I, a boss bitch forever single kitchen witch Capricorn femme queen, do not??

By Vanessa| December 11, 2018 | 47 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Proof We Have the Perfect Merch for Every Kind of Gay

There’s something about closing out another long, hard year by being your very best gay self.

By the team| December 10, 2018 | 2 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: For the Overworked & Underpaid

Long days and even longer nights just trying to make ends meet? We can’t change everything but taking care of the mind, body and soul (very original) can hopefully make it a little easier. Check out these gifts to do just that!

By Alexis| December 7, 2018 | 10 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Mommi and Me

When in doubt: MONOGRAM.

By Kayla| November 30, 2018 | 14 Comments
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Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2018: All the Ways Money Can in Fact Buy Us Happiness

We put our heads together and this is what the Autostraddle Team wants for the holigays! We think you’ll find some sweet stuff for your loved ones in here, too.

By Vanessa| November 28, 2018 | 24 Comments
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32 Awe-Inspiring Black Friday Sales You Should Shop Through Autostraddle’s Affiliate Links So We Get Money Too

I lost 450 brain cells putting together this gorgeous post for you to enjoy great Black Friday deals so if you’re planning to shop online today, you should definitely read it. Also, we’ve got new Autostraddle merch!

By Riese| November 23, 2018 | 16 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Holigay Gift Guide: 5 Perfect Presents For All 5 Love Languages

Whether your person prefers quality time, physical touch, words of affirmation, receiving gifts, or acts of service, we’ve got some gift ideas for them!

By Heather Hogan| November 21, 2018 | 13 Comments
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Throw the Ultimate Queer Halloween Party!

Whether you’re a seasoned monster masher looking for new ideas or hoping to throw your first Halloween bash, there’s something in these three detailed party planning prompts for everyone.

By Sam Wall| October 12, 2018 | 5 Comments
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Valentine’s Day Sex Toy Gift Guide For Even Hotter Lesbian Sex, If You Can Believe It

Sometimes Valentine’s Day is a patriarchal capitalist scam and sometimes you just want to eat some candy hearts and buy balloons and make out and unironically get into it.

By Guest| February 1, 2018 | 10 Comments
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Holiday Gift Guide: Last Minute Subscription Boxes for Last Minute Babes

If you’re a last minute giver, give the gift that keeps on giving with these groovy subscriptions!

By Ari| December 19, 2017 | 4 Comments
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Holiday Gift Guide: For the Queers in the Kitchen

It would be the sweetest thing to gift your culinarily skilled loved ones with new swag for their kitchen.

By Reneice Charles| December 17, 2017 | 6 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: New Year, New You!

Two Things: First, I want nothing more than for you and your loved ones to start off 2018 being your best selves. Second, I checked this list. I checked it twice. Everything on it can still be delivered by December 25th (in case you are as much of a procrastinator as I am. No judgement! 2017 was hard, after all.)

By Carmen Phillips| December 15, 2017 | 5 Comments
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Lavender Menace Gift Guide: For Passionate Feminist Lesbians and Herstorical Queers

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. Happy holidays!

By Riese| December 13, 2017 | 31 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Haunted Dolls For Your Spooky Loved Ones

Also, look, I’m a POC, I don’t mess around with haunted dolls, but maybe you do.

By Mey| December 11, 2017 | 8 Comments
Autostraddle Gift Guide: Queer Living Alone
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Holigay Gift Guide: For the Queer With A Room of Her Own

Gifts to keep queers who live alone cozy, comfy, and feeling safe.

By Ari| December 7, 2017 | 11 Comments
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