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Reproductive Health
‘My Uterus Is A Curse’: The Hidden Weight Of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
Maggie Zhou
2 Aug 2023
Can We Talk?
I’m Dating Someone Who’s Never Had Sex & I Can’t Get Past It
Moraya Seeger DeG...
2 Aug 2023
Body
I Posed Naked For 30 Strangers & It Changed How I Viewed My Body
Madeleine De la Jara
2 Aug 2023
Horoscopes
Your Horoscope This Week: 30th July To 5th August 2023
Who do you want to be as July ends and August begins? All zodiac signs would benefit from taking time to get clear on that this week. The highlight of the
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Dossé-Via Trenou
Wellness
Chronic UTIs Plague Women Across The UK — Why Does No One Care?
A few summers ago, 20-year-old Beth was a student, working part-time at her local garden centre. She had had urinary tract infections (UTIs) on and off sin
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Agnes Arnold-Forster
Shopping
9 Luxury Vibrators That Are Worth The Splurge
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Charlotte Lewis
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Family
8 Women On What People Get Wrong About Being The Youngest Sibling
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Alexandra Koster
Wellness
Summer Flings: They're Quick, They're Fun & You Should Have One Now
As the temperature rises, many of us start wishing that our love lives would heat up, too. Enter: the summer fling. They’re not limited to movies such as
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Erika W. Smith
Body
Be Honest, Do I Smell?
There’s a scene from Mad Men that I think about a lot. Peggy Olson, the young copywriter, is confidently delivering a pitch to an important client. The c
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Living
Why Our Milestone FOMO Is Worse Than Ever
These days, we have more life paths than we could possibly fathom. We know there’s no one way to go about our lives, and that success looks so differ
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Pema Bakshi
Horoscope
The New Moon In Cancer Is About To Plunge Us Into The Unknown
It’s shaping up to be a wild couple of months (astrologically speaking) because there are about to be seven — yes, seven —planets in retrograde.
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Elizabeth Gulino
Can We Talk?
How ‘Picky’ Is Too ‘Picky’ When It Comes ...
Thanks for reading Can We Talk?, a sex and relationships column that aims to tackle the burning questions about sex, dating, relationships, and breakups th
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Refinery29 Team
Unbothered
This Is How I Navigate Pleasure As A Black Asexual Person
Welcome to Don’t Yuck My Yummm, Unbothered’s sexual wellness column and digital diary aimed at destigmatizing Black womxn’s intimate experiences. Thi
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Ev'Yan Whitney
Shopping
The Most Famous Amazon Vibrator Is On Sale For Prime Day
We call them hidden gems but it’s no secret that Amazon boasts a treasure trove of the internet’s most viral products. You can find it all on t
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Karina Hoshikawa
Relationships
Loneliness Defined My 20s. Now I’m Happier Than Ever
It is embarrassing — shameful almost — to admit to being lonely in your 20s. At least that’s how I felt about it at the time. For a significant part
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Dedicated Feature
I Thought I Was Going Crazy, But My Bowel Symptoms Were A Sign Of...
Crohn’s & Colitis UK is a charity supporting those living with the two most common forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which between them affe
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Sarah Graham
Relationships
My Partner Used An Open Relationship To Cheat On Me
It’s 2022: monogamy is out, non-monogamy and polyamory is in. How could you miss it? You’ve likely seen poly plotlines in mainstream media (hello, Goss
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Megan Wallace
Living
“Belonging” As A Biracial Bisexual Is All About Fear ...
I’ve existed in states of “bi” my entire life, always straddling the line between two different identities. From my very first breath, my
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Nina Miyashita
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Relationships
20 Women In Long-Term Relationships Tell Us How Their Sex Lives H...
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Maggie Zhou
Horoscope
Neptune Retrograde Will Rule Your Life Until The End Of 2023
Another day, another retrograde. We know that Saturn, the Planet of Karma, just went retrograde — and while you may not be ready for another planetary ba
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Elizabeth Gulino
Relationships
I Feel Like My Friendships Are Becoming More Transactional
I still remember when I made my first ever friend, at school. It was very simple: I was 5 years old and my teacher assigned me a seat next to this girl in
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Shivani Dubey
Body
Queer Women Can Get HPV Too — & It’s More Common Than You T...
Many rumours swirl around the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which is tested for during a cervical screening. Sometimes rumours are just rumours, but in the
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Wellness
Cancer Is Not A ‘Battle’, So Let’s Stop With All The War Analogies
I had never felt more powerless than when I sat in my surgeon’s office for the first time, waiting for her to review the results of the frenzied testing
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Candice R Gleeson
Relationships
Ask A Therapist: I’m 29 & I’ve Never Dated. How Do I ...
Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 year
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Press Pause
Bed Rot Is Gross But So Is Life
The latest phrase to jump from TikTok hashtag to aggrieved headlines is ‘bed rot’, a term used to describe, surprisingly, rotting in bed. Not i
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Spirit
A Quick Guide To Angel Numbers & What They Actually Mean
Even the least superstitious or spiritual of people will probably, at some stage, be on the lookout for a sign from the universe. Whether it’s a sign
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Nina Miyashita
Work & Money
Are TikTok’s ‘Bare Minimum Mondays’ Really The Answer...
If you tend to ease yourself into the workweek by doing all the menial, less-taxing parts of your job on a Monday, you’re not alone. In fact, this pr
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Nina Miyashita
Horoscope
Saturn Retrograde Will Have You Reevaluating Your Life
Retrogrades are often viewed as fast and furious, chaotic and crazy, unruly and unnerving — but in reality, they’re a pretty common planetary happe
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Elizabeth Gulino
Wellness
What Is Asexuality, Really? We Asked A Sexologist
A few years ago, an A was added to the end of the official queer acronym, making it LGBTQIA+. This was a huge moment for the asexual or “ace” c
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Nina Miyashita
Healthy Lifestyle Tips
How To Sleep When It’s Unbearably Hot Outside
Every summer I wonder if it’s hot enough to get an air conditioning unit and every summer I remember it’s bad for the environment and this is t
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Cory Stieg
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