Specifically, I’m demisexual — I first heard the term “demisexual” about ten years ago. Having only previously heard about the L, the G, the B, and the T, I was curious about this new term along with the others that were new to me: asexual, and pansexual. I read through the admittedly very brief…

Thirty people over two years will receive £1,600 each per month — Many on the left have pushed for UBI, or Universal Basic Income, over the last few years. Some countries have already tried it with mixed results. The most recent was Finland and it was dropped because the amount of money handed out wasn’t enough to challenge income inequality mostly due…

Relic of a bygone age or right time for reinvention? — I recently started playing Return to Monkey Island. When release was announced last year, I know I wasn’t the only one feeling the excitement of an upcoming new Monkey Island game. In fact, I was so excited that I set up a Steam account specifically to buy the entire current…

Learning to love my complicated attraction history — Welcome to Pride Month! It’s my first as an out aspec man. I have to be honest, it feels a little odd. This time last year I was sharing the shit out of my LGBT friends’ books and generally supporting them in any other way I could. But now, here…

It’s a proper job until it isn’t, so let’s give it to the robots to do — It is late March 2020. The UK has just entered its first lockdown after the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson implored the country to stay home, protect the NHS, and save lives. That first lockdown lasted several months, easing from mid-May through to the end of June when most other…

I woke up this morning with a smile on my face. How could I not with the sun shining so brightly through the curtains, warming my face, and letting whatever chemicals in the brain that makes people feel happy do their thing? But the sunshine isn’t the reason for my…

Is it that we’re not having sex in a way they don’t like? — Purity culture, abstinence culture, or whatever you want to call it — is (at least in the west) an attitude towards sex and sexuality that embodies several things: Lustful thoughts are bad, suppress them When you are in a heterosexual marriage, lust is fine directed only towards your spouse Some…

What happened to her was worse than death — Last week’s broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest Final in the UK came with a surprising trailer right before we headed off to Liverpool for Europe’s most flamboyant event. It was a trailer featuring clips from a three-part 60th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who, scheduled to air in November. A…

I’ve been divorced ten years this month: I’m ready to talk — After another bout of therapy, 2022 was the year I finally admitted to myself that I was in an abusive relationship. Previously I’d described her behaviour as manipulative, controlling, and “borderline abusive.” But I didn’t go far enough. Most of her issues concerned her need to be in control of…