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As I write this, we are five days into January 2025. The world is awash with good intentions, teetotal advocates, and cut-price gym memberships. If...
Last year, my new year’s resolution was to have better sex – to speak up for what I want in the sack and to not fake orgasms. Twelve months on and...
My paternal grandmother was truly terrible at giving gifts. She is dead and gone now, so I can say such things, but she was famous for it. She was...
I have started to feel myself fade. It’s not a sudden and complete vanishing, but rather a slow flickering around the edges as my solidity begins...
No one ever feels their age, do they? Ask anyone middle aged and over and they will say that they don’t feel any different from how they did in...
Last week, I was issued a challenge: go for seven whole days without a telling a lie. No lies of omission, no little baby white lies, no...
Can we talk about lube? There can’t be many sexual taboos left, but lube use has surely got to be one of them, amongst heterosexual couples at...
We are now one week on from the US election and, as much as it pains me to say it, Donald Trump has won in a landslide. The immediate aftermath has...
That notorious 18th century scallywag, the Marquis de Sade, once wrote that, “among libertines, it is commonly accepted that the most voluptuous...
I am a spectacular flirt; I always have been. Even as a baby, I am sure I would have been batting my eyelashes and making cute faces at anyone who...
Prepare yourself for something quite shocking. I don’t really enjoy my birthday. I am aware that is a strange thing to say and fundamentally at...
It’s 9am and I am walking into an important meeting with some very fancy London folk. The two women I am there to meet stand up to receive me and...
Nothing will challenge your own self-image more profoundly than seeing 30 people’s artistic interpretations of your naked body. This was a lesson I...
It has finally happened. I have reached an age where I want my underwear to be comfy and functional, rather than sexy and playful. I am in my...
Why did no one warn me about perimenopausal periods? Seriously. When I was 11, a district nurse came in to school and gave all the girls a frank...
Have you ever had to dump a friend? When it comes to romantic relationships, most of us will have dumped, or been dumped, multiple times. But in...
There is an old adage in dating known as “the rule of seven”. It goes like this: the youngest person you should date is half your age, plus seven....
A study by researchers at the University of Zurich, published earlier this year, found that women used masturbation as a “reliable coping strategy...
I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in 2016. The intervening eight years have brought with them cycling peaks and...
At the end of July this year, England’s higher education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), released its guidance around harassment and...
Have you ever tried organising a baby shower when you don’t have any children of your own? This was precisely the task one of my oldest and dearest...
JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, has been under fire for the past few weeks for mocking Vice-President Kamala Harris as one of...
Never mind having the safe sex talk with your teenager, have you considered having it with your parents and grandparents? You might have to....
Is it just me or is there a whole load more cunnilingus in TV and film than there ever has been before? Last week, fans of House of the Dragon were...
I was not a candidate in the general election, but if I had been, one of my top policies would be harsh jail terms for anyone who brings their...