How a Broken Vibrator Taught Me to Speak Up My name is Chloe, 26, a quiet public librarian in Dublin, Ireland. I have always spoken in italics and ended my sentences with question marks. “Maybe we could try this?” “I’m not sure,…

The Google Spreadsheet That Saved Our Sex Life We are Zoe and Alex, both 32, both data scientists in San Francisco. We fell in love debugging code together at 2 a.m. Our relationship was built on logic, efficiency, and beautifully…

내 안의 숨겨진 정원 제 작품은 완벽해야 했습니다. 선은 반드시 곧아야 하고, 색채는 명확해야 하며, 감정은 통제되어야 했습니다. 연인인 지훈과의 관계도 마찬가지였어요. 우리의 데이트는 잘 짜인 각본처럼 흘러갔고, 저의 진정한 욕망은 캔버스에 숨겨진 밑그림처럼 감춰졌죠. 어느 날, 한 노년의 여성…

How I Relearned My Body at 60 They call it ‘widow’s fire’— that fierce, bewildering surge of desire that can follow the shattering grief of losing a partner. For me, Eleanor, 60, a literature professor, it was a cruel and…

How a Flawed First Date Led Me to Myself My life was a series of perfectly rendered blueprints. My career, my apartment, my skincare routine—all meticulously planned and executed. My love life was the one project I couldn’t seem to…

Berlin in July smells of linden trees and possibility. I, Clara, 29, had come here from Seattle with a broken heart and a half-finished sketchbook, hoping the city’s gritty, artistic energy would fix both. I was an illustrator, great at…

When His Hands Stopped Asking: A Story of Chronic Pain and Desire The diagnosis of fibromyalgia arrived like a thief, stealing not just my energy and my pain-free days, but the language of touch between me and my husband, Ben.…