Hotline by Karley Sciortino
Sex and relationship advice, essays, podcast, and TMI group chat—by Karley Sciortino, former Vogue sex columnist and creator of Slutever.
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What Are Men Today (Actually) Looking For In a Woman? (opens the original)
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Last month, I wrote about what women today really want in a man, based on the unfiltered submissions of more than 150 women. It quickly became one of my most popular posts, and resulted in a flood of DMs from pushy people demanding: now do the men! And because I’m a subby people pleaser by nature, I was a good girl and did as I was told.<div cl
What Do Your Sexual Fantasies Say About You? (opens the original)
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When faced with the question “What turns you on?” most of us give some version of the same answer: I’m turned on by someone who’s confident, funny, smart, blah blah. And sure, those things are hot, but that’s only half the story—frankly, the boring half. Still, I usually stick with the stock answer, because saying “I’m turned on by intelligence” sounds way less scary than the reality, which is that I’m most turned on by a weird genre of faux surveillance porn where teen girls are caught shoplift
Who Should Pay on a Date? (opens the original)
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Last year, I met for drinks with a man from the cursed dating app, The League. It was going pretty well, so midway through our first beer I suggested we order guacamole. This is when my date, a 46-year-old man, looked me in the eyes and said, “Before we order that, can we just confirm we’re splitting the bill?” I swear, I could literally feel my reproductive system shutting down.Am I one of those bitches who thinks a man should pay for everything? No. But needing to pre-negotiate the terms of a
The Trouble With Following the Rules (opens the original)
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To make a long story very short: I was raised Catholic and told not to have sex until marriage. At 13 my grandmother gave me a purity ring, explaining that if a woman has sex outside of marriage she will become a homeless crack addict spinster and die alone—or something to that effect. Perhaps predictably, everyone’s insistence on me not having sex directly resulted in me wanting to have sex with everyone all the time forever. And so I became a slutty Catholic girl. How unoriginal.<a class="imag
The Undeniable Appeal of a Manly Man (opens the original)
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Four years ago, I got out of my last Big Relationship. I was thirty-six, and my anxiety about dating was simple: I had no idea who or what I was looking for. My past relationships had taught me a ton about what doesn’t work for me, but not much about what does. I felt like an idiot. I write about relationships for a living, yet somehow I was approaching middle age still blindly groping at strangers—literally and figuratively.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.
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