Feature image of Golden Curlz and Vivienne Vai in Crash Pad Series episode 273. 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!
Daisy Ducati and Ella Nova in Crash Pad Series episode 186
Today, January 5, is (allegedly) the busiest dating app day of the year:
“By the first Sunday in January, most of us have settled into our routines, says Annabel, a matchmaker for the dating app The Inner Circle. ‘January 5th marks the end of a season of packed calendars, family gatherings, and trips. It’s when people settle back into their routines and don’t have to plan three weeks in advance to get a date in,’ she says.”
Barbary Rose and Rion Rhodes in Crash Pad Series episode 277
Here are some love horoscopes and sex horoscopes for 2020.
How do you set boundaries around rough sex?
Bias in research means that various species’ penises have been studied while vaginas have not — but that’s starting to change.
GirlsDoPorn paid $12.7 million to the 22 women suing it in what the lead trial counsel called “vindication for the many courageous women victimized by GirlsDoPorn, a fraudulent and reprehensible enterprise that thrived on manipulating inexperienced young women.”
These 11 sex tech companies will be at CES. A vibrator is again a finalist, this year in the Last Gadget Standing category.
Blair and Megan Reeves in Crash Pad Series episode 279
No one likes dating, so here are some suggestions on making it suck less, like making sure you’re on an app that reflects what you want:
“A lot of us like to complain about dating apps, but let’s face it, they work. A 2019 study found that straight people are now more likely to meet their significant other online than in any other way. And the same study found that queer couples are even more likely to meet through online dating — LGBTQ+ individuals were “early adopters of internet services for meeting partners,” in part because they’re a minority group who meet fewer potential dating partners through friends and family.
With all the dating apps out there, however, you might be using one that doesn’t work for you. Are you significantly older or younger than most of the app’s users? Are you polyamorous, but not using an polyamory-friendly app? Take some time to research which app might be the best fit for you instead of just choosing the first one that shows up when you google ‘dating app.'”
Byron DuBois and Daizy Blaze in Crash Pad Series episode 296
It sucks when you break up but then still have to live with your ex-girlfriend:
” If there is a way to sleep in the same bed with your ex every night, have a friendly relationship, and not continue to hook up with them, I am unaware of it. It’s a triangle and you can only have two corners. Want a friendly relationship where you’re not hooking up? Don’t share a bed. Want to share a bed but not hook up? Things aren’t going to be friendly.
We are still friendly and still sharing a bed, which is a long, clumsy way of saying that we are still hooking up. She has a nightmare and I hold her. I leave my shoes in the living room and they magically find their way to my closet. In some ways nothing has changed. In others, it’s all very different.”
Finally some vagina studies
Uh Carolyn have you been following my broken up but still living together drama because this seems very targeted and relevant