Category: Mental health and sex

  • Guest post: Parity

    Guest post: Parity

    A brain works hard to life some weights. Illustration.
    Image sourced through Pixabay.

    Zebra Rose blogs at KnkStriped, where she received a Top 100 Sex Blogs 2018 New Voices award for her brilliant writing. She posts deliciously hot erotica and as well as introspective essays and her own artwork. You should check out her work, and also follow her on Twitter, @ZebraRoseSub, where she often tweets photos of her beautiful kinky embroidery. She’s an incredible woman who I am honoured to call my friend, and I am incredibly excited to present a guest blog post from her today, all about mental health and disability.

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  • Yearning for a city that doesn’t sleep

    Yearning for a city that doesn’t sleep

    Skyscraper-filled skyline of New York. Photo.
    Image sourced through Pixabay.

    I’ve been trying to write this post for months without realising what I was attempting to say. It got mixed up in my head with another post, about inclusive body positivity, which is coming soon (edit January 2020: I still haven’t written this post). However, I think I’ve untangled everything enough to know that today I want to talk about yearning to feel alive.

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  • Can I taste some of that ice cream please?

    Can I taste some of that ice cream please?

    A more concise version of this title would simply be mental health and spoon theory. It’s a long time since I started planning this blog post, but it’s been really fascinating to go back over my notes and actually write words. However, I do need to add a content warning for discussion of mental health and depression, and mentions of suicide. Take care of yourselves folx.

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  • When I write goodbye letters

    When I write goodbye letters

    I am feeling very low today, and this post contains a trigger warning for talking about mental health and suicide. Today I tried to do a good thing, and just made things worse and demanded emotional labour from someone I love who is hurting. I’m sorry.

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  • How edging and SSRIs intersect

    How edging and SSRIs intersect

    When the first March Kink of the Week prompt was revealed, I was excited. Edging is something that has definitely featured in my fantasies, and I anticipated being able to weave some of those thoughts into a piece of erotica. However, this has turned into a reflection piece that requires a content note for discussion of mental health.

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