Autostraddle review
Autostraddle’s Love + Sex desk brings together queer relationship columns, first-person pieces and toy reviews. I’d pick a topic first, then use the headline to tell an essay from a reader question or a product review.
Start with the kind of piece you want
Mac Crane’s “Reading Makes You a Better Flirt” connects a device from fiction with a running joke between partners. The Dating shelf takes a different approach and runs reader questions, including one from a single parent trying to make connections. I’d start with Dating if I had a specific situation in mind and follow a byline if I found a writer I wanted to read again. The main page labels AF+ pieces separately.
Read the experience alongside the product details
The toy shelf includes a guest piece on wearing the Crave Vesper as a necklace. That’s the kind of detail I’d look for in a personal account. For the versions and finish options, I’d go back to our Crave review, which compares the maker’s product listings. I’d use both when I wanted to understand how a design looks on paper and how one person chose to wear it.
Anabel’s take
I’d come back for the bylines. A question might bring me to the Dating shelf once, but a writer whose perspective I recognise gives me a reason to look through the archive.