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Mia Feitel Look at Instagram and you’d think everyone woke up perfectly imperfect. Fashion, beauty, social media, pop culture, all cultivate a myth of effortlessness. In this package, ELLE.com acknowledges, dissects, and celebrates the effort. […]

I recently got an IUD before having penetrative-vaginal sex for the first time and had a lot of questions about how the device works. While there are a lot of great resources online, there was […]

For eight years I have kept this deep dark secret. Until recently only my close friends and family knew about what I’d been through, and there are a number of reasons why it has taken […]

Dear E. Jean: I’m a man. I am “assaulted” sexually every day by women. I’m trying to figure out how this is okay in the #MeToo era. How is there still a stigma against men […]

If you were to stumble upon anything from Maude, a new female-owned sex essentials company, chances are you wouldn’t know what it was. Their products (which include a $45 vibrator, a $25 bottle of lube, […]

Dear E. Jean: My man has become a public figure in the world of social media. He has strangers kissing his ass all day and women from all over the world propositioning him, which has […]

Let’s get one thing out of the way first: it hurt way less than I thought it would. For years, I had tried to imagine the pain the Internet had convinced me getting an IUD […]