Zoë Ligon

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This story was originally published on July 23, 2015. Well, I’m just going to come right out and say it. According to the creepy (and confidential) e

After a tumultuous experience living in a triple-occupancy dorm room my freshman year of college, I was absolutely starved for alone time. At 19, I had vir

Lube and I got off to a bad start. The first time I encountered it, I was 15. My boyfriend at the time was hell-bent on having anal sex, so he stole a tube

When I began working as a moderator for a popular online dating website in 2013, I was excited to get a behind-the-scenes look at how perfect strangers mee

The first sex toy I ever purchased was a long, girthy, purple dildo. I was 18 and had dragged my best friend into a small sex shop in the West Village. She

I was breast-fed until I was five years old, and because of this, I’m one of the only people I know who can actually remember being breast-fed. I can

Recently I was asked to name a time when I was very embarrassed during sex. Out of the depths of my suppressed memories, it came to me. I was 19 and giving

One evening a few years ago, I was walking down a sidewalk when I was attacked by a young man riding a bike. He came up behind me and hit my butt so hard t

I recently received the following question, and of course I had plenty to say in response. I just read your fabulously informative and inspiring gonorrhea

At age 21, during my last semester of undergraduate studies, I received two false-positive HIV tests. Over the course of a few weeks, I spiraled from a wel

This essay was originally published on August 4, 2015.Recently, I started talking online with a new guy who made me feel all of the tingles and energy that

I remember the first time I realized how good it felt to stimulate my clitoris. I was an adolescent in a pool with a foam pool noodle. The water pressure c