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never date your celebrity crush (or any man)
on cringing in the aftermath of a parasocial delusion
 • Rebecca Woolf
how to find words that don't exist
on reckoning and redaction
 • Rebecca Woolf
when the teacher asked "whose pleasure are you dancing for?" she paused for a moment and then said "mine."
or how attending a women only erotic dance class healed something in me, even though I basically only watched
 • Rebecca Woolf
the cat is in heat
on breaking my celibacy and the insatiability of animals
 • Rebecca Woolf
Living on the Edge
On Rediscovering Tension and the Potency of Longing
 • Rebecca Woolf
"prometheus is looking for his forever cream pie"
the ick of getting back on the apps after six months off of them
 • Rebecca Woolf
talking to teenage girls about teenage boys
"no boy will EVER have more experience with your body than you do" and other potentially necessary reminders
 • Rebecca Woolf
how to grow (a bush)
facing my fear of body hair one follicle at a time
 • Rebecca Woolf
baby's first loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP)
reading 'sex and rage' at the gynecologist
 • Rebecca Woolf
well over the mileage limit
on the malaise of modern expenses, failed negotiations and quitting sex until my lease is up
 • Rebecca Woolf
it happened to me: a 'feminist sex and relationships therapist' with 'two PHDs' told me I didn't understand consent because I didn't go to…
or how men weaponize their 'professional expertise' in order to gaslight women
 • Rebecca Woolf
it isn't weird unless you make it weird
our inability to acknowledge our children's sexuality is a litmus test for the lack of comfort we feel in our own.
 • Rebecca Woolf
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