HARMLESS: On Nonconsensual Violence During Otherwise Consensual Sex
He slapped me hard across the face and I am gone. I am no longer here in my body. I am somewhere else.
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On Reclaiming The Word “Slut”
I spent my teenage years terrified that I was a slut, and therefore I was not the type of girl who could be loved.
Read MoreYou Should Like The People You’re Having Sex With
The best casual sex — the best sex, period — happens between partners with a shared investment in each other’s wellbeing.
Read MoreHow Much Is Your Voice Worth?
Was my voice worth anything? How do you put a price on writing that you’d always made available to the world for free?
Read MoreAm I Bisexual Enough For You?
Women fill me with warm fear. I do not know how to flirt with them, or even how to formulate complete sentences.
Read MoreThe Kind of Girl Who Gets Herpes
“I guess this is what I get for falling for a girl like you.” An insult tossed off so casually, so precisely designed to gut me.
Read MoreFiction: The Love Interest
She hadn’t stopped thinking about Ian since that night, and it seemed like such a waste to walk away from someone who might be worth sticking around for.
Read MoreRyan From ‘Promising Young Woman’ Fucked Me Up
Watching Promising Young Woman felt like taking a fork in my fist and then jabbing it into my right temple. The film left me bleeding for days.
Read MoreWhen Your One-Night-Stand Ignores You On Campus
How humiliating and bizarre, to feel so close to someone and then watch him bolt out of the cafeteria when you got up to refill your Diet Coke.
Read MoreBREAKUP SEX
Sex can be a vital language for two people who have run out of words, or for whom words are cheap and ineffective, unable to capture the wealth of tangled emotion still living in their chests.
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Ella Dawson 