Stephanie Theobald

Stephanie Theobald is a journalist and author who lives between Los Angeles and London. She writes regularly for the Guardian, the Sunday Times and Elle. Her latest book, Sex Drive, about the new female pleasure revolution, will be published by Unbound in October 2018.

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ANAL AGONY AUNT

Lesbian Sex Educator Was NYC’s Real Life Carrie Bradshaw

Tristan Taormino has been promoting sex positivity for decades, from a queer porn editor in the ’90s to writing the definitive guide to anal sex for women.

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BETWEEN THE COVERS

The Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction Has Her Own Amazing Story

At a time of no visibility and intense ignorance, Ann Bannon’s steamy lesbian novels of the 1950s were a secret pleasure and a lifeline for many women. Now their author tells all.

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ORGASM ENERGY

How Is the Queen of Female Masturbation Dying? Not Quietly.

Betty Dodson has made it her mission to convince women that shame-free masturbation is the foundation of female sexuality. On her deathbed, she still wants to get the message out.

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‘SOFTNESS AND BITE’

My Desert Lockdown: Coyotes, Bikers, Yoga, and Kangaroo Rats

Stephanie Theobald always wanted to live the “Little House on the Prairie” life. Now she’s in lockdown in the Californian desert. The sunrises rock. The crazy bikers, not so much.

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What a Trip

This Ex-Cheerleader Just Launched the 'Goop of Psychedelics'

Like the love child of Timothy Leary and Gwyneth Paltrow, Jackee Stang intends The Delic to be “the world’s first psychedelic wellness corporation,” shaking up a trippy boys’ club.

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Lesbian Sex Educator Was NYC’s Real Life Carrie Bradshaw

The Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction Has Her Own Amazing Story

How Is the Queen of Female Masturbation Dying? Not Quietly.

My Desert Lockdown: Coyotes, Bikers, Yoga, and Kangaroo Rats

This Ex-Cheerleader Just Launched the 'Goop of Psychedelics'

I Love These Women-Only Orgies. But Where Are the Lesbians?

The Best Nude Beach in the World

My Road Trip in Search of America’s Best Orgasm

At Garth’s Place the Desert Blooms and So Do Your Spirits