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The Difference Between Porn And Sex
Monique Steel for BuzzFeed “Your boyfriend lets you do this?” the Dutch journalist asked incredulously.It’s one of the questions I get most often as a porn performer and producer. I’ve gotten it from...
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My Childhood Mosque Was My Safe Space
Sian Butcher / BuzzFeed You know that feeling when you get home from work and trade in your smart clothes for sweats so you can finally relax? That’s how I used to feel when I went to Islamic...
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Why Won't "Orange Is The New Black" Acknowledge That Bisexuals Exist?
Netflix Here’s a fun drinking game to play if you don’t actually feel like drinking: Watch Orange Is the New Black in its entirety. Drink every time someone says the word “bisexual.” Congrats! You’re...
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9 Things I Don't Miss About Alcohol Addiction
Tom Humberstone for BuzzFeed The other week someone asked me if I missed alcohol. It’s been five and a half years now since I last had a drink, after somewhere in the region of a decade spent trying...
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My Teenage Co-Worker Sent Me A Sext By Accident And All I Got Was This Essay
Does it count as a sext if you were never meant to see it? Martisa Patrinos / BuzzFeed Once upon a time, in a land far, far away — like two hours on the Metro North — I worked during the summers...
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Who Owns The Ancient One?
Edel Rodriguez for BuzzFeed News In 1996, a Washington college student trying to sneak into a hydroplane race on the Columbia River — and drinking a Busch Light — stumbled upon one of the most...
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What "The Baby-Sitters Club" Taught Me About My Disease
“As a girl, I knew no diabetics, or really any other kids afflicted with disease. The fictional character of Stacey McGill alleviated the loneliness of being sick.” Charlotte Gomez / BuzzFeed The...
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7 Essays To Read This Week: Twitter, Emotional Labor, And Being Fat At Your...
This week, Matt Ortile wrote about a relationship he wanted so badly to work — one that began on Twitter. Read that and others from the Washington Post, The Cut, The Toast, and more. "12 Stupid...
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Kate Hudson Kept Me In The Closet
Lauren Nassef for BuzzFeed Being obsessed with Kelly Clarkson doesn’t make you gay. But by the time I watched From Justin to Kelly at age 12 — and enjoyed it — there was no denying I liked men.During...
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Sending Off The Last Lesbian Bar In San Francisco
My memories of the iconic San Francisco lesbian bar the Lexington Club exist as little fragments: getting called on during a dating game (terrifying!), being gently scolded by owner Lila Thirkield for...
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The Failure Of Tom Cruise 2.0
If you’re of a certain age — an age whose childhood, and even early adulthood, didn’t involve cell phones or wireless internet — chances are you remember what it was like to watch Tom Cruise and...
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The Twilight Of The Angry Black Woman
Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters As a black woman in public, I’m hyperconscious of my actions, tone, and words out of fear that I might seem too angry. Whether I’m making a suggestion to a customer service...
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How Strangers Harass Lesbians On The Street
Plenty of women, regardless of sexuality, face street harassment on a regular basis. Queer women experience a few particular kinds. Yao Xiao Yao Xiao Yao Xiao Yao Xiao View Entire List ›
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Toxic Masculinity Is Harmful To All Of Us
Tom Humberstone for BuzzFeed I was never very good at being a boy: I found boyhood full of things I didn’t like. I would cry at other children’s parties – a problem with my ears meant that loud noises...
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12 Stupid Mistakes The U.S. Military Is Making
Aleks Sennwald for BuzzFeed The U.S. military is a lumbering $1 trillion-a-year operation. Prescriptions about how to fix it are equally bloated and grand. It’s not that the ideas aren’t good. There’s...
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How I Tried To Slide Into A Relationship
It began the usual way, via direct message on Twitter. I’d just tweeted a photo of a book I was reading: some lines of dialogue that referenced John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” This amateur display...
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All The Single Ladies: Why Movies Need More Platonic Pairings
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road. Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. One of the understated pleasures of the summer standout Mad Max: Fury Road, a movie that generally opts for glorious...
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Why It's Hard To Talk About My Bisexuality
“The hardest part about being bisexual is that I can’t figure out what to say to everyone who loves me to make them completely comfortable with it.” Will Varner / BuzzFeed I met my friend Paul in a...
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7 Essays To Read This Week: Platonic Pairings, The Angry Black Woman Trope,...
This week, Huda Hassan writes about the “Angry Black Woman” archetype used to silence black women. Read that and other essays from Jezebel, Hyperallergic, Jacobin Mag, and more. "How to Love the Back...
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How I Survived Wet Hot American Summer Camp
It would have been my first kiss. I was nervous about it and I hadn't even gone on the audition yet, let alone scored the part.In the spring of 2000, when I was in sixth grade, a script popped out of...
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