Simone Paget
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SEX FILES: Using pleasure to deal with period pain
I’ll never forget that night in the emergency room. Earlier, my roommate had found me hunched over, moaning in agony on the shower floor. The culprit: the worst period of pain in my life. I felt like I was dying and no one at the hospital could tell me why . The whole experience was confusing, traumatic – and excruciatingly common.

SEX FILES: I before we except after me
In the year before I split up with my ex-partner, several things changed. I started to spend more time with new friends, stay out later on weekends and began treating myself to fancy pedicures on a bi-weekly basis. Most importantly, I stopped writing about my then-partner. Our relationship was already on the rocks and I didn’t want to air our dirty laundry in public — or at least that’s what I told myself at the time.

SEX FILES: Time to toss the toxic relationships
There are relationships that make you feel on top of the world. And then ones that take you all the way down. In their presence you feel belittled, bullied or like a doormat, always giving more than you receive. Interacting with this person frequently leaves you feeling angry, hurt, sad and exhausted.

SEX FILES: Love languages - Let me count the ways
Over the course of the past year, the pandemic has changed how we approach nearly everything, from socializing and attending school (virtually) to going to work (pantless). However, a new survey suggests that COVID-19 may have also changed how we think about giving and receiving love.

SEX FILES: What to do with a lagging libido
The Saturday morning scaries. That’s what I used to call them when I was still dating my ex-partner. The weekends were the only time we had time to have sex – an activity that was usually bookended between waking up and that first cup of coffee.
