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In a video viewed over 2.8 million times, Mitch and Jack play a game. The rules are simple: They bring up a topic and then either respond affirmatively by saying “That’s what’s up” or negatively, by saying “What’s up with that?” On the list of things that are given the …

Gender and desire are inextricably linked when it comes to fetish and fantasy, politics and personal attraction. When I began working as a professional dominatrix in the 2000s, I saw many clients who wanted to be “forced feminized” — i.e. transformed into sissies in lacy underwear and bubblegum-flavored lipgloss. In …

“Anyone who knows me and my long-term boyfriend know we meet a lot of our friends online these days,” Ashley Gill says in a Dec. 21 video, showing a photo of her and her friend and collaborator, Grant Gibbs, taking a sultry selfie with Pluto. She’s wearing a T-shirt emblazoned …

On Twitter, we see Lil Nas X the troll. In his music, we hear Lil Nas X the musician. And in his new documentary, the “J Christ” singer hopes to give viewers a glimpse of Lil Nas X the human. “Some people think my music is dope. Some people see …

At one point in the new season of Netflix‘s Heartstopper, a pair of adult chaperones on a school field trip observe the various romantic entanglements of their students. One is touched and a bit amused by it all, while the other feels wistful about it. “When you don’t figure out …

The incel (or “involuntarily celibate”) community has never been a particularly supportive or amicable one. Whatever nasty remark you could level at men who spend their days seething that “stuck-up” women won’t sleep with them, they’ve heard far worse in toxic forums where they constantly put one another down, mocking …

If you were an adolescent with occasional bouts of insomnia in the early 2000s, you probably grew up watching Real Sex, the groundbreaking HBO series that aired in the wee hours before softcore time-travel movies and re-airings of Problem Child 3. Real Sex was truly revolutionary: it was frank, straightforward, …

The police department of La Vergne, Tennessee, found itself at the center of a social media maelstrom with the news this month that a female officer, 26-year-old Maegan Hall, had been fired over allegedly having sexual encounters with six male colleagues, sometimes “while on duty and inside city owned property.” …

Rejoice, language nerds! While the Merriam-Webster dictionary tried to gaslight us into believing that “gaslight” was 2022’s word of the year, the venerable American Dialect Society — a group of linguistic scholars founded in 1889 — has overwhelmingly voted for a different, far more important term to commemorate this moment …

In September, M&M’s — one of Mars Wrigley’s candy brands — introduced a new female character, Purple. “Designed to represent acceptance and inclusivity,” the character is now featured on three new “Flipping the Status Quo” limited edition packages, which solely contain “M&M’s three leading ladies.” While the company has been …