and Lana Del Rey, the sexual use of the word “daddy” is taking over mainstream media — but calling someone “daddy” when they’re definitely not your father isn’t exactly new. People have used “daddy” in sexy scenarios for centuries, and the queer community played a special role i...
InSo Your Girlfriend Never Ever Ever Wants To Have Sex, really great and empathetic advice is given to someone who might not be in a relationship that’s working for them. Of course it is always okay for someone to turn down sex for whatever reason. But if you want to have sex within...
because you work on the same team and you want them to succeed. Don’t put too much emotion into it. You wouldn’t think twice about telling someone you didn’t care about so deeply that they had a typo in a report, and you should take the same reasoning into talking to your ...
Andy next comes right out with it and asks Kyle if there’s anything going on between the two of them. She hesitates. “In that way?” she asks, presumably meaning romantic. Another pause. “No,” she says. Andy asks if they’re a couple. She says no. He asks if Kyle has feeling...
and if the film might have improved had someone taken him aside at some point and given him a lesson in the more harmful ways that one can portray a queer person. Or maybe, asJulie Maroh, the author of the graphic novel upon which the film was based, has lamented, the film ultimately...
name that I couldn’t possibly give it to my child. One of my favorite names is the name of her ex-girlfriend’s cat. Damnit. Or there’s the name of that person who was kind of a bully in high school. Or a former lover. Or too similar to the name of someone very close...
why we keep it hidden in secret compartments and rarely offer others a look, but primarily it comes down to fear. Fear of what someone else will think, fear that you won’t get what you are asking for, fear of humiliation, fear of giving someone leverage to hang over you, fear of ac...
Sometimes these moments seem innocent enough. Desire makes us do strange things, and wanting someone a great deal is a slippery slope. Crushes are difficult territory to navigate, especially ones that never come to reciprocated fruition. I understand feeling very strongly about someone you love; so...