Author: Anne

Hurray! By now you’ve probably heard that the app you’ve never wanted, the one that allows every rando you’ve ever had an interaction with to publicly pass judgment on you, is finally becoming a reality. It’s called Peeple, and we can all give thanks to the courageous work of Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough, “two empathetic, female entrepreneurs” who “want to spread love and positivity.” Because what better way to fill the world love and positivity than by creating a system wherein that guy you were nice to once during freshman year of college and who turned out be a…

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The box containing California Exotic Novelties’ Vibrating Pleasure Periscope makes a number of bold claims, all of which the toy itself completely fails to live up to. The packaging assures me that I will be able to “explore the innermost hidden recesses of [my] pleasure zones.” It’s clearly a novelty toy, and my expectations were low to begin with, but this piece of flimsy white plastic managed to fall so spectacularly far below them that it found a home somewhere in the Marianas Trench of my regard. This “hi-tech vibrating probe” is billed as an “intimate self-examiner.” It’s exactly what…

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The conservative right has long been doing their best to illegitimize any family that doesn’t fit within their narrow definition of “traditional.”  (The absurdity, of course, is that real families never really fit the mold into which conservatives now want to shoehorn everyone.)  A family, so they say, ought to consist of a mother and father raising their (preferably) biological children.  All across the U.S., they’ve been attempting to legally define marriage as an arrangement only between one man and one woman, just to be sure no one gets confused and thinks that same-sex couples might be equal to opposite-sex couples.…

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The first thing I noticed about the Close2you Allegro was how good it looked and felt in my hand; it’s an elegant toy, with a bass clef (the company’s gimmick appears to be a music motif) emblazoned on its delicate pink surface. The Allegro is all sensuous curves, and even the control buttons are gracefully designed.

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Andy and Michelle, while researching to open a safe haven for sexuality coffee shop called “Shameless Grounds” in St. Louis, traveled to Seattle and to a swing club. They describe their experiences in a “he said/she said” fashion and don’t pull any punches. In Part 3, they enjoy Dinner & Drinks and settle in

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Andy and Michelle, while researching to open a safe haven for sexuality coffee shop called “Shameless Grounds” in St. Louis, traveled to Seattle and to a swing club. They describe their experiences in a “he said/she said” fashion and don’t pull any punches. In Part 2, they arrive at the Swing Club and learn the rules of the house.

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The swingers had us at “Hello, Gorgeous!” Maybe it’s because I’d never thought of myself as gorgeous before. Maybe because I’d always felt my husband was gorgeous, but in that married to you way. The kind that’s able to overlook all the basic inherent flaws. You know the way. The swingers were gorgeous, not in the fakey Hollywood way, either. These were the kind of people we’d see across restaurants sometimes, the ones who don’t look at prices or wine lists. Who say “Bring the bottle,” when the server makes the inane suggestion that they might want it by the…

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Andy and Michelle, while researching to open a safe haven for sexuality coffee shop called “Shameless Grounds” in St. Louis, traveled to Seattle and to a swing club. They describe their experiences in a “he said/she said” fashion and don’t pull any punches. In the final part of their series, they talk about their conclusions and thoughts on the night as a whole.

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Andy and Michelle, while researching to open a safe haven for sexuality coffee shop called “Shameless Grounds” in St. Louis, traveled to Seattle and to a swing club. They describe their experiences in a “he said/she said” fashion and don’t pull any punches. In Part 4 they begin to play, and an unexpected guest challenges Andy’s views on what his wife might like.

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