The feature image of Amazon Maddox and Francisco St. Laurent and all of the photographs in this NSFW Sunday are from fetish site Mondo Fetiche. The inclusion of a visual here is not an assertion of a model’s gender or 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!
Love is part of who we are:
“In a relationship, one mind revises the other; one heart changes its partner. This astounding legacy of our combined status as mammals and neural beings is limbic revision: the power to remodel the emotional parts of the people we love, as our Attractors [coteries of ingrained information patterns] activate certain limbic pathways, and the brain’s inexorable memory mechanism reinforces them.
Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”
Here are Cara Delevingne’s sex toys.
3D printed sex toys aren’t safe yet.
Sleeping naked is good for you.
If you’re in New York or Los Angeles, a new app will pick up your stuff from your ex so you don’t have to.
Here’s a guide to STI testing because safer sex is hotter sex:
“A great way to enter hot vax summer with a clear conscience is to break the chain, so to speak, by going ahead and getting tested now, before you embark on the flings of your dreams. The same applies outside of this context, like in those moments when you’re newly single and just starting to get back out there, are opening up a relationship, or are in some way heading into the zone of having new partners.
‘STIs happen because you don’t break the chain,’ Sandling said. ‘Most of these things have no additional reservoir; like, syphilis doesn’t sit on a doorknob, it only happens because people have sex with each other and don’t know they have it and don’t wear condoms. That’s it! That’s literally it.'”