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The Best Reason a Guy Ever Gave for Why I Should Sleep With Him

One of the most empowering messages of my life was actually an attempt to seduce me. — At the height of my quarterlife crisis, I was living in Shanghai, at a mouse-and-roach infested hostel, next to one of the most fetid wet markets I’ve ever smelled in my life. We’re talking offal and fish guts perennially rotting in the street outside my door. I was broke. Technically…

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The Best Reason a Guy Ever Gave for Why I Should Sleep With Him
The Best Reason a Guy Ever Gave for Why I Should Sleep With Him
Relationships

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The Virago

·Aug 26

The Backlash Against “Therapy Speak” Is Problematic

Let me count the (many) ways — I say this as a person who did academic research on abuse, and as someone who trained and volunteered in the mental health field: the backlash against “therapy speak” is problematic. “Trauma,” “abuse,” “attachment,” “gaslighting,” “OCD,” “boundaries”… you know the list. Yes, there are people misusing some of these words…

Culture

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The Backlash Against “Therapy Speak” Is Problematic
The Backlash Against “Therapy Speak” Is Problematic
Culture

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The Virago

·Jun 7

Would This Serious Health Risk Have Been Diagnosed Sooner If I Had a Penis?

Asking for myself and about 4 billion friends — As a kid, I spent so much time playing sports that when my first period came, I was in the middle of a game of American football with the neighborhood boys. I stopped at home for a bathroom break, noticed some light staining on my underwear, slapped on a pad…

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Would This Serious Health Risk Have Been Diagnosed Sooner If I Had a Penis?
Would This Serious Health Risk Have Been Diagnosed Sooner If I Had a Penis?
Feminism

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The Casual Mystic

·Apr 29

5 Novels With Deeply Spiritual Themes

Reincarnation! Spirit communication! Twin flames! — Although I’m a nerd whose day job revolves around the research world, I am very much a mystic at heart — one of those tarot-reading, energy-working, past-life-believing types. …

Spirituality

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5 Novels With Deeply Spiritual Themes
5 Novels With Deeply Spiritual Themes
Spirituality

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Apr 28

Dear Parents: Please Praise Your Child’s Looks

Complimenting your kids on anything BUT looks sends an unhealthy message. — I’ve noticed a troubling trend among millennial parents. I see it in how some of my acquaintances talk about their children on social media. While the parents will gush about practically all the amazing qualities the child has — caring, smart, funny, sweet, inquisitive, strong, athletically gifted, spunky, honest, tenacious…

Family

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Dear Parents: Please Praise Your Child’s Looks
Dear Parents: Please Praise Your Child’s Looks
Family

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Sexography

·Apr 23

Where’s the Ethics Line in Erotic Public Humiliation?

I think I saw a case of kink-gone-unethical recently — and it’s bothering me. — Imagine if someone posted, or forced you to post, compromising photos of yourself on a forum of over 100 thousand people. Alongside your full name. While referring to you with a term traditionally used to denigrate people. Some of you might find that mortifying. Some of you might love imagining…

Sexuality

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Where’s the Ethics Line in Erotic Public Humiliation?
Where’s the Ethics Line in Erotic Public Humiliation?
Sexuality

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Sexography

·Apr 17

Why Taking Your Spouse’s Surname Can Be a Legit Feminist Move

I ask the naysayers: who’s your daddy? — I overheard an exchange years ago between two women I knew. One them was soon to marry, and her friend asked whether she’d be taking her husband’s name. The bride-to-be spewed her condescension thick and fast. Oh, no, she wasn’t taking her husband’s name! What an antiquated position! She was…

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Why Taking Your Spouse’s Surname Can Be a Legit Feminist Move
Why Taking Your Spouse’s Surname Can Be a Legit Feminist Move
Relationships

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Sexography

·Apr 16

The Problem With Calling Alcohol a “Truth Serum”

What kind of relational choices do you make when you’re sober? — One night at age 19, somewhere around 2 or 3am, I was sober at an afterparty — ever the designated driver — when the guy I loved staggered from our host’s bathroom into her living room, glanced around the sparsely-peopled space, and slurred, from just a few feet away from…

Relationships

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The Problem With Calling Alcohol a “Truth Serum”
The Problem With Calling Alcohol a “Truth Serum”
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The Casual Mystic

·Apr 10

How Not to Lose Your Mind to the ‘Twin Flame’ Hype

There‘s a lot of nonsense and even a cult out there. Here’s how to be discerning. — I’m a bit of an oddity: although I have an ivory tower research background and have worked as a trained mental health volunteer, I harbor a lot of non-mainstream spiritual beliefs. No, I’m not an ‘aliens are upgrading our DNA!’ …

Spirituality

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How Not to Lose Your Mind to the ‘Twin Flame’ Hype
How Not to Lose Your Mind to the ‘Twin Flame’ Hype
Spirituality

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Sexography

·Apr 1

I Have Breast Scars. Here’s Why I Mention Them to New Partners.

Sure, I *could* just go all shock-and-awe when the bra comes off — but let me prepare you. — When I had reconstructive surgery for my breasts at age 21, scars felt like a very small price to pay in exchange for the joy of no longer being deformed. I had a congenital breast deformity. Back then, I was with a man who liked my breasts in any iteration…

Relationships

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I Have Breast Scars. Here’s Why I Mention Them to New Partners.
I Have Breast Scars. Here’s Why I Mention Them to New Partners.
Relationships

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Laura Rosell

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