Learning to date without rules made me a much happier human — Her skin was velvet, and her eyes could bleed sunshine. Her inner world was ripe and glossy, strong and direct, yet plagued with self-doubt. It was like the entire outside world misunderstood her. But I understood her. …

Research has some interesting things to say about getting dumped — Centuries ago, he’d just been broken up with, and his heart was flooded with a cocktail of raw emotions. He was filled with grief. It felt like he had flames circulating through every screaming cell in his body. Teetering on an emotional catastrophe, he sat down and penned the following…

Does casual sex really make us miserable? Some science suggests so, but there’s much more to the story than meets the eye. — Casual sex can be really depressing. There aren’t many things in life that can hit you right in the feels, quite like the aftermath of a casual sex experiment that didn’t turn out the way you’d hoped. What do I mean by that? I’ll speak for myself and say that…

Why do so many women make noise during sex? — I remember being young and feeling out of place as I navigated the world of sex. I fumbled around like a child who’d just been handed a violin and asked to play Mozart. I think we all were. Puberty is a tough part of life. There’s a lot going on…

In a Supreme Court where nothing is sacred — The gloves have come off at the U.S. Supreme Court. The idea of Substantive Due Process is the crux of the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V. Wade. For over a century, United States Supreme Courts have been playing a judicial game of tug-of-war over the theory. The…

Let’s talk about rape/baby — Funny how a few moments of pleasure could lead to a lifetime of hell. Clarissa* is only seventeen. Her boyfriend is twenty-one. Their sex is considered legal and consensual where they live in the United Kingdom. Basking in the dim light of the television recently, the two set out to…

Hype leads to market mania. Market mania leads to broken dreams. — Bitcoin has been in the news lately—it hasn’t been good. Its sale price is currently around $20,000 per coin, a massive decline from its peak of $67,000 and some change. As it makes its long, slow nosedive towards a crash landing, advice litters the internet about whether you should HODL…

The cause of seeming online aggression isn’t what you think it is — “The world is awaiting your apology or for you to swallow a cyanide pill. Either or we’ll take it,” read the tweet, fired off by a rightfully angry Jaxton Wheeler. It was 2017, the Trump Administration was in the first year of its term, COVID-19 hadn’t yet reared its ugly…

The Texas GOP shows us their anti-sex colors — The war between sex and religion has been long and embarrassing. Since Augustine of Hippo, the ancient Roman Christian proclaimed sex was among the highest evils a Christian could engage in. Reflecting on his sexual past, Augustine writes: Love and lust seethed together within me . . . swept me…