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This issue is about Clitter, Elon and Trump, semen retention myths, texting your bros, and American Psycho memes.

 

I Tried to Keep the Spark Alive with Clitter, a Lube That’s Also a Glitter Bomb

 

My boyfriend and I have been together for two years now, and have achieved near-total familiarity with each other’s bodies and desires. You’d think this familiarity would be a good thing, but Googling “how to keep the spark alive” tells me that for most couples, it’s a problem. I can sort of see the logic of this even if I don’t experience it that way. We no longer have that feral need to fuck five times in one sitting because we don’t know when we’re going to see each other again, for example. If I want to see him again, all I usually have to do is look across the room — hardly a recipe for erotic longing. 

 

Still, Dr. Google’s advice on the matter was depressing. “Schedule intimacy dates” was rational enough, but the idea of bringing my iCal into my sex life was a bummer. “Surprise him at work” isn’t particularly applicable when “him” works on a jobsite two hours away — who wants to shlep out to Middle of Nowhere, NJ, only to take a stray rebar to the puss and be out of commission for weeks? As for “hire a sex coach,” my bedroom only has enough room for one creepy broad in a caftan, thank you very much. I had all but given up on the idea of inflicting poorly considered sex therapy on my boyfriend when I learned about Clitter.

 

Clitter by Fizzin Bath Bombs purports to be a “novelty water-based lube with a glitter bomb,” exactly the kind of low-effort, high-reward shit I was looking for. Surprise your man with an extra flamboyant creampie today! Serve cunt while you serve cunt! It also comes all the way from Australia, meaning that by the time my Clitter arrived, I’d forgotten I ordered it. FAQs about the product include: “Can I use your products while pregnant or breastfeeding?”, “Are the Clitter capsules even safe?” and, my favorite, “How do the Clitter capsules even work?!” (interrobang very much sic). 

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Donald Trump vs. Elon Musk Isn’t Even a Fair Fight

 

You may recall that nobody thought much of Donald Trump’s chances when he announced, in 2015, a run for president. Establishment conservatives had hopes for Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, but over the weeks and months of the campaign, Trump pummeled them with insulting tweets and nicknames they couldn’t seem to shake: “Lyin’ Ted.” “Little Marco.” The one time Rubio tried to punch back by inartfully joking in a stump speech that Trump had a small dick, the shameless reality TV veteran retorted at a debate that his dick was fine and normal.

 

Well. Much has happened since then. But the prospect of Trump running the table once more in 2024, again by roasting every opponent in his signature belligerent style, cannot be discounted. It is only in this period of limbo, when he’s been banished from the White House and his preferred communication platform, Twitter, after an election loss and failed coup, that we might permit ourselves to laugh at his vituperative attacks on public figures. Especially when the figure is Elon Musk — a right-wing billionaire dweeb undeserving of a defense or collective sympathy.

 

For some context: Trump and Musk once had the mutually advantageous relationship that is possible between two grifters. But then Musk said last month that he’d cast his first-ever vote for a Republican in a Texas special election — contradicting his claim to have voted for Trump in 2016 — and expressed hope that he could support Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an emergent Trump rival, for president in 2024. So Trump laid into him at an Alaska rally, declaring the tech executive a “bullshit artist” and mocking his attempt to weasel out of an agreed deal to purchase Twitter for $44 billion. Musk had previously said he would reverse Trump’s permanent Twitter suspension if the takeover were successful, which must have appealed to the former president no matter how much he pretends to love his knock-off social media network, Truth Social.

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Across the Country, Fraternity Hazing Rituals Are Still Killing Young Men

 

Male college students keep dying every year during pledge season — and people keep looking for piecemeal answers, hoping the system can be reformed. But is this about ‘bad apples,’ or a culture of violence and neglect as machismo?


 

These Are the Top Seven Dating Deal-Breakers, According to Science


Social scientists have started to analyze what not to do early in a relationship, and their findings might make you want to change your sheets a little more frequently


 

 

You Can Blame Your Dad — Even Your Stepdad — for Your Depression


New research suggests that dads who are depressed are more likely to have depressed children, regardless if they’re biologically related or not


 

 

Does Pacing Count Toward My Daily Steps?


It would be really great if my nervous energy could be used for something worthwhile


 

1997 Was the Dawn of the School Shooting


Two years before Columbine, the nation first reckoned with an unprecedented four school attacks carried out by aggrieved teenage boys — a type of shooting we’re all too familiar with today


 

‘Just Because’ Texts to Your Bro Mean More Than You Realize, Study Says


The idea of checking in on your friends can come with a lot of pressure, but new research suggests that it doesn’t have to be that serious. Just reaching out to say ‘hey’ matters a lot more than we think


 

 

The Most Baffling Myths About the Power of Semen Retention


Sorry, but not cumming won't make you any better at drawing sacred geometry


 

 

Copaganda About Fentanyl Is Infecting Civilians Now


Expect to see more stories like this Facebook tall tale from a woman who says she almost died from picking up a dollar bill


 

Why a Day at the Beach Turns Men into Insatiable Bears


It’s not you. A new study says that it’s the sun that makes you want that second hamburger, fourth hog dog and sixth bag of chips


 

The Cool, Unnerving Detachment of ‘American Psycho’ Sex Memes

 

You're not supposed to see yourself in Patrick Bateman, but somehow he's become the perfect poster child for the deep discomfort of sex and dating

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