Anna Rose Iovine
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Both my OGBYN office and health insurance said that I was charged $17.70 for "asking a question" during my annual physical
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Has this happened to anyone else? Is healthcare in this country THIS cooked? (yes)
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Kids/teens want more friendship and less sx in TV/film bc they're lonely. We have destroyed their third places.
As one 10yo said in the study: "The Sand Lot is a baseball movie i like. i wish i could go outside and play like [they] did at the time. today its not safe." [sic]
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Last week, the NYT put out an op-ed speculating that Taylor Swift is queer.
As an out queer person, I know that this speculation—especially on a scale like this—does more harm than good.
It's time to stop obsessing over celebrities' sexualities:
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There are too many replies to respond to but I see all your bs healthcare charges and I’m with you in solidarity!
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I have two tix to
@kurtisconner
's (sold out!) NYC show next Wednesday and I need someone to go w! Maybe he can rt this and try to get me a date? 👉🏻👈🏻
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Looking to commission a piece by a sex worker about their thoughts on Lucia and Mia on
#WhiteLotus
! Pitch me at anna.iovine
@mashable
.com
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It is really frustrating to see people On Here claim they're puriteens, or destroyed by prn or whatever the hell. No. Kids today are lonely and isolated and looking to media for comfort and platonic relationship models. How sad is that!
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"Adolescents are looking to media as a 'third place' where they can connect and have a sense of belonging," said one study author.
Read more about the reasoning here:
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"Just 15 months [after 'Framing Britney Spears'], people are using a Snapchat filter to make fun of Amber Heard crying while recounting allegations of abuse against Johnny Depp."
Like
@kathrynfiona
, I feel insane watching the online reaction to this trial. It's abhorrent.
Making memes about domestic violence allegations doesn't make you "neutral." It makes you an "asshole."
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Billionaires are coming for birth control—first Peter Thiel now Musk
Elon Musk liking an odd number of anti-birth-control tweets within the last day
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Happy to share I've been promoted to associate editor
@mashable
! Excited to shift my focus into crafting stories about sx and relationships and beyond. More soon!
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the fact that sex educators and advocates have to use "seggs" and "s3x" online to teach vital info that isn't provided in the majority of schools......embarrassing
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For Tumblr's 15th anniversary, I wrote about the porn ban and why, in our current state of the internet, they'll never be another place like it online
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"The problem with Albie's perspective, of course, is the assumption that a whore, or an exotic beautiful girl from a foreign island, would have no agency of her own."
Amazing analysis of the SW on
#WhiteLotus
by
@tinahornsass
:
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Stop asking me how I am or how I've been! The answer is always the same! Bad!
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"Feminism is a scam!" is becoming a rallying cry among the tradwife/fem set.
Unknowingly, they're actually raging against capitalism — or they *do* know, and are the ones scamming.
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Weak and shameful. Will do nothing for millions of people of all ages, like Betty Ann
White House officials are leaning toward canceling up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers who make less than $125,000, sources tell CNN.
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2022 saw a rise of tradwives & anti-sexual revolution sentiment. Bad sex, in these people's views, is a result of modern feminism.
That's a complete lie. Bad sex is a systemic problem, a result of conservatism, and it's time to start treating it as such:
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"If expressions of male violence that were once justified as 'boys will be boys' are no longer permissible, it will mark a major cultural shift, one which many men are not prepared for." essential reading from
@evepeyser
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Freelancers: Have a pitch about tech and its intersection with relationships (romantic and otherwise), dating, s3x, etc.?
I'm accepting commissions on a rolling basis! Reach out to me: anna.iovine @ mashable dot com (no DMs please!)
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Mastercard's new porn regulations went into effect a month ago.
Not only do these rules hurt sex workers; they also have massive implications about the future of porn—and the future of the internet as a whole. I spoke w sex workers and industry experts:
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The NYT says we should use age-verification systems (AVS) for porn sites and skirts around the reality that they won't work. Aside from the huge privacy risks, AVS can easily be circumvented with VPNs.
More about this here:
Woke up to the
@nytimes
praying for a conservative Supreme Court overturn the First Amendment when it comes to sex.
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"'This feels like a bad trip,' I heard someone mutter at the exact moment I leaned over to tell a friend the same thought."
such astute
#SXSW22
reporting
@bigblackjacobin
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pretty sapphobic of Elon to overshadow this news if you ask me
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apropos of nothing, twitter changed my life in the best way
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.
@IGN
management blindsided
@IGNUnion
and laid off 3 union members despite no economic distress at the company — and now they're letting outside counsel do the talking for them.
@yaelprough
,
@PeerIGN
,
@jwhdavison
, the least you could do is come to the bargaining table!
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@WrittenByHanna
Get the Jynneos one!
Hi everyone, busy day and thread. Just wanted to clarify that the CDCs preferred vax is the JYNNEOS which is non-replicating and safe for us AD/Eczema peeps and the ACAM while available is not preferred. Thanks to
@Miss_AshG
for that information.
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"Thank you, former media columnist Ann Brenoff, for suggesting to a survivor of a shooting at a Fourth of July parade which claimed six lives that she needs to vote. I'm sure she’s never heard that before"
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So incredibly proud of
@kattenbarge
for her fearless reporting on Hannah’s story for Insider and
@Casey
’s ‘Under the Influence,’ an intense must-watch of a documentary about unchecked power and control top influencers wield
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Straight boyfriends of bisexual girlfriends this, straight boyfriends of bisexual girlfriends that — let's talk about lesbian girlfriends of bisexual girlfriends for once
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I'm working on a piece for
@VICE
about what "vanilla" sex means in 2018/19 and I want to know what people (18+) think. If you can spare two min to answer from ✨ sexy questions:
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Wrote about Pornhub, which turned 15 this month
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The rise of Andrew Tate worship among school-aged boys further proves the absolute NEED for comprehensive sex education, which:
- increases recognition of gender rights
- expands understanding of gender norms
- improves media literacy and knowledge of DV
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I went to Applebee's to see if I could get drunk off their $1 drink specials
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Another Pride month, another corporation lifting ideas from small queer creators.
I spoke with The Bottoms Digest, who's been making bottom-friendly recipes for a year before Postmates claimed to drop the "first-ever" bottom-friendly menu
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Happy Pride! The “straight women are saying they’re bi for social clout” crowd is at it again
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A big update to "dating app for the curious" Feeld was delayed and delayed, and when it finally came it was plagued with bugs — including sharing exact locations.
Inside Feeld's disaster of a rebrand, according to users and two current employees:
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As a dating reporter no longer in the field myself, I need to keep up with that world somehow...so, this is an evergreen call to DM or email me your date and hookup goss, if you ever just need someone to tell! 💌
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As dating apps like Tinder and Bumble scramble to make money, they’re adding features that make them indistinguishable from each other
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What in the Woody Allen
Errol Musk, Elon Musk's father, reveals that he had a second kid with his 35-year-old stepdaughter who he’s raised since she was 4.
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TikTokkers in NYC are wearing oversized shirts to stop harassment, but the trend perpetuates the idea that clothes cause assault.
It's not true—assaulters cause assault.
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attn current/former Tumblr users ‼️
Are there any SW or erotic artists or the like out there who were on Tumblr before and after the 2018 prn ban and want to chat with me about how the site changed? Would love your perspective for an upcoming piece ✨✨
DM or email in my bio!
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@_pem_pem
The pearl-clutching replies about children being there…I feel like I’m going insane. What do they think breastfeeding is???
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MONEY SHOT: THE PORNHUB STORY drops on Netflix today. Here's why you should watch:
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What a wholesome piece!!!
I profiled the six members of Retirement House, TikTok's content house for the 70+ set
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We're hiring another social editor
@VICE
! This is my current role and my DMs are open if you have q's ✨
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how can anyone manage to work with all the grief and despair surrounding us???
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I wrote about 'Beautiful Boy' and why you should see it—it's not because of Timothée (I know, shocking).
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While misinfo runs rampant on TikTok, the app removes content from licensed sex educators, pelvic floor physical therapists, and other experts that are providing essential info that kids — and adults — haven't gotten in school:
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Rightfully, discussions about the Roe leak have focused on abortion rights, and tangentially about rights to contraception and marriage.
These decisions uphold the Constitution’s right to privacy. Another freedom at risk? To watch and make porn:
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What kills me is that people who are against the WGA strike are likely underpaid and unappreciated themselves, but have been brainwashed by capitalism into thinking they and thus everyone else deserves crumbs
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Exclusive: After a pilot where nonbinary Bumble users couldn't message women first (as its the app where "women make the first move"), the app will now let (they/)them message anyone first.
The app is also expanding gender options elsewhere. More here:
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maybe that's because...you've destroyed the feed....
One thing I hear a lot is people asking to see more friend content in Feed. I'd love for there to be more friend content in feed, but all the growth in photos and videos from friends has been in stories and in DMs.
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ZDCG won our contract!!! ✊🎉
WALKOUT AVERTED: We have reached a tentative three-year contract agreement with
@ziffdavis
, averting our planned walkout over
#PrimeDay
. Among the highlights: Guaranteed wage increase of up to 3 percent and industry-leading AI protections.
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This is the first national coming out day that I'm out to my family! Here's how that went:
me: I have something to tell you
parent: oh no
me: It's something good!
[comes out]
parent: I thought you said this was good!
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Feeld recently updated its app and from the replies to this thread, it's not going well.
If you're a Feeld user interested in sharing your experience and thoughts on the update for a Mashable story, my DMs are open and my email is in my bio
Feeld is one of the largest communities for people of like minds and desires to make meaningful human connections, and we’ve seen tremendous growth over the past two years. As such, (1/6)
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"We live in an age of...seemingly every song and TikTok and book using the language of introspection and healing and self-care, because we live in an age of increased isolation, of detachment from the messiness and joy and danger of the real, physical world."
"introspection can become a trap—a system by which you control yourself so that you do not disturb the peace of the world outside of you."
wrote an essay about our lives of "self care" and therapy and how we're probably just all lonely and understimulated
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man: my bi wife is ashamed to me!
wife: babe will you come to a pride event with me 🥺
man: EWWW, gross!
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I tried to find out why everyone's so horny on Twitter lately. Here's what I found.
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I wrote about casual sex, something people On Here and beyond have been hand-wringing about lately.
An anti-SW, queer-ignoring argument says that love is a must-have when you have sex. I think sex is more nuanced than that.
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Really funny to see big pubs cover the spike in non-monogamy NOW when I've been writing about it for years (this article is from 2020)
someone needs to spray every nyc journalist with water
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"You know, for the longest time, people didn't like me...But then over quarantine, I started doing what I call 'feeding the monster.' The JoJo hate monster." such a good interview by
@kelsaywhat
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I spoke to two archivists of 'Anything That Moves,' a 90s bisexual zine that's as relevant now as it was 30 years ago.
"It really hits you that virtually nothing has changed about the outside perception of bisexuality and bisexuals," one of them told me.
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The overuse of serious psychological expressions online has rendered these terms useless—or, maybe even worse, people now assume they’re “Gen Z slang”
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(TW for DV, r*pe, etc)
It’s
#BiAwarenessWeek
, and as we celebrate bi people we must also draw attn to the hardships we face.
Bi people experience intimate partner violence at higher rates than gay, lesbian, and straight folks. I wrote about why here:
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"He is charming and manipulative...He made everyone [he told] feel sorry for him."
Horrifying behavior from Mitski's (soon to be former? hopefully?) manager:
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One guy who used AI dating tool YourMove went on a date with a woman who used ChatGPT to message him. “Wow, it’s kind of creepy,” he said.
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Pornhub blocked Utah from accessing its site due to the state's (useless) age-verification law
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I didn't have the words to express my frustration about this at the time, but this is sex journalism being blocked by Twitter. Not only is content by sex workers and educators, erotic artists etc being removed from social media—now reporting on that stuff is too
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Side-eyeing this for a lot of reasons, one of them being that Obergefell v Hodges was just 8 years ago.
I came out OUT, like publicly out as a lesbian 17yrs ago. Been in LGBTQ+ circles a long time. All bisexual women I’ve met along the way have ended up marrying men. ALL of them. I only know one bi man who’s married to a man. And I know plenty of bi men. Make of it what you will.
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Straight man walks into a lesbian bar—no, not the start of a bad joke but rather some TikTok discourse about who belongs in queer spaces (shockingly: queer people!)
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"Writing off any weird behavior as kink content further demonizes sex work as predatory and shameful. Social media users tend to assume that content they don’t immediately understand must be perverse, especially if it’s presented by a young woman."
wrote about npc tiktok going viral and the bad sex work discourse that came out of it
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Wrote about *that* dating app message floating around here, the one about “putting a pin” in plans because they met someone else the previous day:
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I'm convinced that MILF MANOR is fetish content
MILF MANOR IS THE DARKEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN ON TELEVISION OH MY EFFING GOD
#milfmanor
@TLC
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@kurtisconner
okay wow so many cuties reached out! overwhelmed! i'm gonna decide soon ty matchmaker kurtis
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Really fucked up of
@nytimes
and
@Rainesford
to publish an article about “orbiting” without giving me any sort of credit
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As a native gabafool (Staten Islander) I am available for comment on Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson
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Censoring discussion of sx, prn, queer issues, etc online is expanding to news organizations in the name of "brand safety." Very scary stuff
New: multiple sources, including executives, explain why sites like Jezebel are being shut down despite being very popular. The "brand safety" industry has created a paranoid environment where companies are not prepared to run ads next to important issues
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Our union lunched out and picketed for fair wages and AI transparency today! ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
What do we want? Fair wages! When do we want it? Now!!
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On S**s****, I wrote about the thing on everyone’s mind today: micropenises
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