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I didn’t even know women could masturbate until I watched the first season of Sex Education when I was 16.

But who is John?

That question is probably answerable by Mulaney himself, or the people closest to him—not necessarily the teenagers who idolize him.

“As humans, we generally do like to be stimulated or aroused by our environment. For some, watching a horror movie can hit that sweet spot of being scared but also feeling like you’re in a safe place.”

Maybe it has morphed over the years, but the foundation is all the same—by desperately trying to separate yourself from the girls around you, you are letting it be known you are cooler, edigier, better.

A second reason why I only surrounded myself with boys was because I wanted to be one of them. I wanted to approximate the power they had as men in our patriarchal society.

The recent uptick in brands specializing in self-defense tools marketed towards women is indicative of a larger trend of women gravitating towards more hands-on methods of self-defense.

My closet’s limited color selection eliminated the challenge of matching and gave me freedom to play with accessories, aesthetics, and silhouettes.

Vedic astrology and feng shui consider the color of clothing as a means of protection and energy balance as well. What a foolproof way to get dressed, I thought. Why not dress to my full, universe-guided potential?

Before, witches were seen as old women with warts; now, they’ve become fresh-faced pin-up girls in front of a green screen.