“When our dark imaginations overpower our curiosity, sex can easily become a proxy for myriad insecurities—that we’re not skinny enough, smart enough, or that our podcast is failing.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“There are plenty of letters in the alphabet... Why bother rushing to a conclusion? Sometimes your letter changes, sometimes you try a different one, other times you realize you’re not what you thought you were, or maybe you always knew.”— Joshua Bassett, gq.com
“You know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It’s good. Even when it’s bad, it’s good.”— Casey McQuiston, amazon.com
“Disclosing your STI lets your partner know that they can trust you. You’ll be amazed by what they might tell you once that trust is established.”— Ella Dawson, elladawson.com
“The external problem, or the elephant in the room, is that there is a serious epidemic of violence against women committed by men. It’s unfashionable to discuss either because it is so obvious or so contested, or both at the same time.”— Julladonna Park, thoughtcatalog.com
“For years, sex workers, sex educators, pole dancers, artists, tantric coaches, BDSM-ers and others have had their content shadowbanned or removed with little to no explanation, and Instagram has a long history of exacting this approach on sex workers and queer creators”— Pearse Anderson , melmagazine.com
“Anorexics starve ourselves to kill our own desires. Desire is the enemy: desire for food, desire for sex. We prefer to want nothing.”— Anna Dorn, humanparts.medium.com
“When we label someone it completely stifles our curiosity in seeing or understanding them as something more complicated, interesting, multi-faceted, or just more than the label we’ve assigned them. It gives no room for growth, no room for fluidity, no room for change, and no room for further evoluti…”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“I hate mixing politics with sexual play, but there is a wealth of feminist porn (I agree we need a better name) directed and casted by women.”— Shan Boodram, playboy.com
“If we've successfully reclaimed words like 'slut' and 'whore,' we can reclaim the dress for it too.”— Helen Donahue, playboy.com
“I don’t want to pass because it feels like lying. And the longer I wait, the more it shifts from feeling like 'just' lies of omission to outright lies of commission.”— Gillian Morshedi, medium.com
“Why is it that male coming of age narratives always feel autonomous, like they are coming into their own and becoming a man and like going off on a vision quest or howling at the moon or something, and female coming of age narratives are a thing that happens to women?”— Gabrielle Lisk, medium.com
“Then again, simply being in public can be a disaster when you’re queer. Having sex in a public place almost comes naturally when your body is hardly welcomed to begin with.”— Ana Valens, dailydot.com
“I have to join my two lives back together. My life did not start at 22, even though that’s how it feels.”— Alison Hinman, medium.com
“It was our collective secret that we were obsessed with sex. Our sexuality was kept secret from us, while it was exhibited, examined and exploited by men.”— Heather O'Neill, hazlitt.net
“It’s hard to forgive myself for things I think are unforgivable. To be untouched is to be unwanted, and to be unwanted, it seems to me, is the worst kind of sin.”— Kelsey Myers, gomag.com
“I love our community's sense of humor! Walking fast, iced coffee, complaining about cishet people being 'Like That,' not sitting in chairs properly, ALL the puns, our insistence in claiming characters as our own.”— Lauren Yapalater, BuzzFeed Staff, buzzfeed.com