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Samantha Mann

Samantha writes personal and nonfiction essays covering LGBTQ life, mental health, and feminism. Her work can be found on Bust, Bustle, Washington Post Magazine, and in various other publications. Her novel, Putting Out: Essays on Otherness, debuts March 2019 with Read Furiously Publishing. Samantha lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York.
Posted on November 26, 2018 November 26, 2018

Sex Is Not A Substitute For Masturbating

Samantha Mann
Written by
Samantha Mann
Posted in
Lust+Liaisons
Tagged
masturbation, sex, stigma, vagina, women
A cardboard box packaging an old vibrator sold at Sears

I’m unsure why so many women—and let’s be real, cisgender women in relationships with men— believe they can only be giving themselves pleasure when no man is there to do it for them. Read more

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