Feature image of Mistress Tom deFun and Blair in Crash Pad Series episode 311. All of the photographs in this NSFW Sunday are from the Crash Pad. The inclusion of a visual here should not be interpreted as an assertion of the model’s gender identity or sexual orientation. If you’re a photographer or model and think your work would be a good fit for NSFW Sunday, please email carolyn at autostraddle dot com.
Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
Beating Hart, C’est La Vie, and Cinnamon Maxxine in Crash Pad Series episode 308
Turns out the pandemic has made us better partners, according to a report from Vice:
“Despite the daily anxieties and stress brought on by the pandemic, young people say their romantic relationships have grown stronger.
Spending so much time together and getting to know each other better, whether in an old relationship or a new one, has enabled us to reassess what’s important in a relationship. Many have worked through long-standing issues, and others have re-prioritized which battles to fight, often leaving the more trivial things aside. Young couples are feeling incredibly grateful to have their partners by their sides through this experience, and say they are falling more in love with them. Forty-seven percent of those in relationships say they have experienced higher levels of love than before the pandemic.”
Mistress Tom deFun and Blair in Crash Pad Series episode 311
It’s okay to realize you’re wrong in the middle of an argument. Just say, “you’re right” to the person you’re arguing with.
Science confirms: BDSM is fun.
Here’s what’s up with face-siting.
Here’s how to make vanilla sex more adventurous while keeping it, you know, vanilla.
At Oh Joy Sex Toy, Mariana Meira writes about social languages and hooking up after moving to the US from Brazil, writing on apps, “Swiping left and swiping right just feels so cold. There’s no thrill, no hunt, no interaction.”
At Salty, Pippa Sterk writes about making peace with having a body.
What’s the deal with being super hungry after sex?
Barbary Rose and Rion Rhodes in Crash Pad Series episode 277
At Xtra, Andy Bandyopadhyay writes about seven steps towards opening your relationship, starting with mapping our your own erotic desires:
“The most fundamental question for making open relationships work is this: What are your core erotic desires?
t’s not just what you find hot—it’s why it’s hot to you.
The classic text here is The Erotic Mind by board-certified sex therapist Jack Morin, who studied over a thousand peak erotic experiences to map the contours of what makes us hot—and why. The book is a do-it-yourself guide through your own erotic mind. Read it. Savour it. Relish doing the book’s exercises to map out your own sexuality.”
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