March 4, 2021
The declassified Tinder survival guide for women of colour online
Dating apps are simultaneously terrible and incredibly addicting.
Autonomy: The Ubyssey's Sex Issue
All in Autonomy: The Ubyssey's Sex Issue
March 4, 2021
Dating apps as a brown woman
Most women of colour will tell you how every time they start getting that gross feeling in their stomach, one of the first things that pops into our minds is the question: “But what if they don’t like (insert ethnicity)?”
March 4, 2021
Learning more about yourself makes sex better
Love languages. Attachment styles. Kinks.
March 4, 2021
Survival guide for the 21st-century ‘slut’
“i dip my feet / and paint my nails / in your ocean of misogyny”
March 4, 2021
Holding space: How local artists transform trauma into art
"When I started getting tattoos, I gained a lot of confidence and started looking at my body [as] something beautiful,” Menzies wrote in an email to The Ubyssey.
March 4, 2021
Love in a (Instagram) bottle
I thought that people would at least make an effort to get to know me, especially if our personalities seemed to match. But all they saw was a short, not-skinny girl of Chinese descent.
March 4, 2021
No private jets or unlimited bank accounts. Being a sugar baby is not what you think.
According to Seeking Arrangements, 71 UBC students used the app in 2020. This places the school 17th out of all Canadian schools for users.
March 4, 2021
Orgasms aren’t necessary for good sex
You don’t need an orgasm to have good sex, and the pressure to make one happen can make sex bad.
March 4, 2021
Ask to unmask: Consent and boundaries on COVID-19 tinder
If my personal choice to expose myself to some horny dude’s dishonesty could inadvertently transmit the coronavirus to people I care about, that exclusive agency over sexual autonomy fades.
March 4, 2021
Dating with a disability is hard. But disabled UBC students embrace their bodies.
Both Facknitz and Cook stressed that their disabilities are an integral part of who they are and far from a bad thing. Because of this, it’s important to them that their disability is not treated like an aside, but rather an intrinsic part of who they are.
March 4, 2021
A sexual (health) fantasy
The most compelling thought about autonomy that I was exposed to in my undergrad was during a conversation about chlamydia.
March 4, 2021
Autonomy: Letter from the editors
In a time where we can no longer hug, touch or even stand less than six feet away from one another, what does autonomy look like in the context of the greater good?
March 3, 2021science
Ubyssey sex survey 2021
We’ve brought back our infamous annual survey to ask in no uncertain terms, how the hell are you fucking this pandemic?
