The Journal.
Honest writing on desire, open relationships, kink, and repair. The questions people are ashamed to google, answered by two people who hear them every day.
- What kink understands about consentThe communities most people think of as reckless have built the most careful consent culture around. Here’s what any couple can borrow from it.
- After the affair: the part nobody prepares you forYou decided to stay. Everyone treats that as the end of the chapter, and yet it is the beginning of a much harder one, and nobody hands you the map.
- Before you open up: what the podcasts don’t tell youOpen relationships and polyamory are having a real moment, and the moment makes it sound easier than it is. What the enthusiastic podcasts tend to skip.
- When one of you wants more sex than the otherDesire discrepancy is the single most common thing couples bring us, and the one they’re most convinced means something is wrong. It usually doesn’t.