If you’re a person with a vagina, it’s pretty likely that at some point, you’ll have a period. You’ll menstruate. Blood and other fluids will come out of your vagina.
It’s something that we’ve had to deal with for centuries. But for some strange reason, we still act like periods are something taboo.
We hide our tampons. We’re told not to talk about period-related symptoms. We’re told period sex is ‘gross’.
Read the full storyLet me detail the wreckage of my dating life.
Since I broke up with my boyfriend two years ago, I have been on precisely one official date, in which I fainted in a McDonald’s toilets and smacked my head on a door.
No, there was not a second date.
I am deeply, truly, embarrassingly single, likely because of my aversion to dating apps (all that swiping makes the tendonitis in my wrist flare up), my intense fear that if someone asks… Read the full story
Today is Make a Friend Day, where people are invited to think more about meeting someone new and making a new friendship.
For most of us, we’ll meet new friends at work, in a pub, during a gym class…when conversation gets going, you naturally fall into friendship.
Just a reminder… Read the full story
Deciding to stop drinking alcohol can be tough.
Not because you miss the booze itself, necessarily, but because you have to disrupt your routine.
Suddenly you’re left out of the cocktail fun and have to sip on Coke or tap water instead. You don’t get to clink a glass of celebratory champagne.
So any non-alcoholic alternatives that create… Read the full story
When Valentine’s Day rolls around, it can feel like there are only three options.
Option one: be in a couple. Do romantic things. Be smug and loved up and full of joy.
Option two: be single. Be sad, alone, and bitter. Sob while eating ice cream.
Option three: ignore the day entirely.
As if seeing a constant stream of engagement and wedding updates on Facebook wasn’t enough, today is World Marriage Day.
Are you ready for marriage? Do you find yourself looking at colour schemes, and mentally selecting bottles of champagne for the big toast? Or creating hashtags for the big day?
Or are you on the opposite end of the scale and would rather walk over hot coals than consider taking the plunge?
Take our quiz and find out just how ready you are to get married.
Chicken nuggets are popular around the world.
Whether you get a box of nuggets as a snack, or pair them with something else as part of a delicious meal, you can’t go far wrong when it comes to these tasty treats.
Some people enjoy chicken nuggets so much, they’ve taken their love beyond the food and created themed products, so we can all live that ‘nugg life’.
From bracelets to hip flasks,… Read the full story
If most of us came across an old note scattered on the pavement, we’d walk past and forget about it.
Win: two tickets to Tom Hunt’s sold out 5 Star Burger event
Not Laura Sullivan. Ever since 2005, she’s been collecting all the random notes left by strangers on the streets.
It all started when, twelve years ago, Laura found a sticky note on the… Read the full story
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It’s all about sex this week in Ask Andy and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, what else would you expect?
Metro’s favourite agony uncle is back to answer all life’s hard-hitting questions… like how exactly does one lose their ‘v card’?
Andy has the answer.
Well, an answer anyway and that’s better than nothing.
Be warned he’s not here to mince his words.
If you’re ready to hear the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth… Read the full story
Suitcases, we need them.
Well, to be fair I guess we don’t really. Now I’m thinking about it, it’s just as easy to throw your stuff in a bin bag… but it’s certainly not the most aesthetically pleasing means of transporting luggage and I’m pretty positive it’s not an airport approved method.
If a bin bag or an overloaded backpack is not your style, you… Read the full story
Bisexuality – some people find it confusing.
It’s relatively easy to define straight people or gay people, but bisexual people seem to have thrown the manuals onto the fire and danced around the ashes.
If sexuality is a spectrum, bisexuality covers the broad and baffling ‘middle bit.’ It’s a land of questions and confusion.
Well, I’ve been a proud resident of the ‘middle bit’ for over a decade, and I’m here to shine a light on some of the questions people have asked me.
13 February is international recognised at Galentine’s day, thanks in large part to everyone’s favourite fictional, feminist warrior, Parks and Recreation’s Lesley Knope.
I’ll leave it to Lesley to tell you a bit more about Galentine’s day is all about:
‘Every February 13th, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it, breakfast-style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It’s like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas.’
Ladies celebrating ladies, as it damn well should be.
Here are a few things you should definitely have on hand if you’re organising a get together with your ladies tomorrow night.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, boys, but here’s something you really need to read.
Granted us girls can be hard work but, lads, there are certain things that each and every one of you do that make us want to scream blue murder and temporarily pack our bags in a frenzy.
So please read on, take note.
Here are the things that men keep on doing, that make us want to dump them (and then forgive them shortly after).
Blow away the cobwebs and get out and about this half term, despite the chilly and damp weather.
There are, as always, loads of brilliant things to do in London this week with the kids – loads of which are indoors, and therefore weather-proof.
Even better, many of these events are free or pretty cheap.
Here are 10 of the best children’s activities for the February half-term – all for under £10.
‘I wear makeup for myself ‘ – that’s the mantra right? That’s the way they sell it to us.
That’s how we justify the £16 eyeliner, the £50 facial creams, the daunting mixture of primers, concealers, foundations and powders that begin to feel more like dry-walling a bathroom than getting ready to leave the house.
It’s OK, because it’s us girls doing it for ourselves. Fierce, independent ladies who just happen to have makeup bags worth more than some men’s entire wardrobe.
I don’t buy it – I wear makeup, and… Read the full story
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