Tagged: Mental Health

SELF-LOVE SPOTLIGHT: The Selfish Sensualist 1

SELF-LOVE SPOTLIGHT: The Selfish Sensualist

Because self-​​love is about so much more than sex toys. On Valentine's Day of 2023, I con­tin­ued my "tra­di­tion" of giv­ing away an ever­last­ing rose, cour­tesy of Spectrum Boutique — and oth­er good­ies to make your self-​​love a lit­tle more luxurious.…

High Libido Woman: Nature or Nurture? 2

High Libido Woman: Nature or Nurture?

Am I con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly wired to be hornier than the aver­age woman, or is there a "nur­ture" com­po­nent that I have inter­nal­ized? Today, we exam­ine some of the exter­nal fac­tors influ­enc­ing a woman's high libido ⁠— and her will­ing­ness to act…

Menstrual Cycle Tracking Basal Body Thermometer Vector

How Each Menstrual Cycle Phase Affects My Sex Life

If some­one says that cis women are wildest dur­ing their peri­ods, they've nev­er seen me sex toy shop­ping and booty-​​calling dur­ing ovu­la­tion. One of my Instagram fol­low­ers com­mis­er­at­ed: You're not alone, girl. My Tinder bio when I'm ovu­lat­ing goes from,…

7 Questions to Unfuck Your Love Life & Yourself 3

7 Questions to Unfuck Your Love Life & Yourself

Can you jour­nal your way to a more ful­fill­ing, bet­ter love life? I cer­tain­ly think so. It takes a degree of intro­spec­tion to dis­cern one's own: … along with their part­ners' to see if they're com­pat­i­ble and in align­ment. Consider this…

PMDD: A Life-Threatening Mental Illness 4

PMDD: A Life-Threatening Mental Illness

Getting my peri­od is sweet, sweet psy­cho­log­i­cal relief — and not because I'm avoid­ing preg­nan­cy. The begin­ning of men­stru­a­tion for me marks the end of the worst phase of my cycle. My ill­ness gave me a 1 in 3 chance…

The Polite Way to Break Up (With Your Therapist) 7

The Polite Way to Break Up (With Your Therapist)

It's not easy to share your dark­est thoughts with some­one and trust that they'll under­stand — let alone advise with a har­mo­nious bal­ance between accep­tance and growth. And when a ther­a­pist doesn't hear you out, it takes only a minute…

How to "Date Yourself" 8

How to "Date Yourself"

After British Vogue inter­viewed Emma Watson, the media fix­at­ed on the 20 sec­onds where she talked about being sin­gle and "self-​​partnered." It was a con­ver­sa­tion where she spoke about men­tal health, her place in the world as an activist, history…

10 Comforting Statements For a Friend Who's Been Sexually Assaulted 9

10 Comforting Statements For a Friend Who's Been Sexually Assaulted

You more than like­ly know a sex­u­al assault sur­vivor. It's so com­mon, but because it's so heavy, many who want to be allies strug­gle to find the right thing to say. We've all heard hor­ror sto­ries about unsym­pa­thet­ic author­i­ties and vic­tim blamers disguised…