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This Wellness Journal Even Worked For Me, A Writer Glued To Her Computer All Day

The Best Shoes For Trekking Through TSA, According To R29 Readers

Elizabeth Buxton

J.Crew Just Entered A New Era, Thanks To Olympia Gayot

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21 Gracious Birthday Gifts Fit For A Virgo

by Karina Hoshikawa

From Homespun To High-End, These Are The 20 Best Cozy Quilts

by Eliza Dumais

Sexologist Shan Boodram Wishes She Orgasmed Every Day

Welcome to Refinery29’s Why I Do It, a series where we ask inspirational, successful people 29 questions about what fuels them on and off the cl

by Elizabeth Gulino

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Sex Re-Education

What I Wish I Could Tell Myself As A Baby Queer

“You’re gonna move to New York and experiment with communism. Go down on a girl after reading her some Frantz Fanon.” Is it the queerest

by Melanie Whyte

Sex Re-Education

How I’m Unlearning My Shame About Sex — One Orgasm At A Time

I don’t remember the first time I felt tingles “down there.” It may have been watching Marlena and John hooking up on Days of Our Lives, which my mom

by Carli Whitwell

Sex Re-Education

Consent Needs To Be Sex Education 101

Trigger warning: This story references sexual assault. The first time Elena realized what consent was, it was too late. “I was assaulted in high scho

by Elizabeth Gulino

Sex Re-Education

Yes, Some Asexual People Masturbate. No, We Don’t Need To E...

One of the questions I’m asked the most when people learn that I’m asexual is: “Do you masturbate?” This inquiry comes earlier in a conversati

by Yasmin Benoit