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Sex Diaries

New York Magazine’s Sex Diaries series asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives — with comic, tragic, often sexy, and always revealing results. The column, which began in 2007, is the basis of a docuseries on HBO.

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How I Get Strangers to Talk About Their Sex Lives

 To write the Sex Diaries column every week, I stop people on the bus, ask my cashier at CVS, or even beg my next-door neighbors. By Alyssa Shelasky

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  1. The Talent Agent Flying to L.A. for a Younger ActorThis week’s sex diary.
  2. The Woman Sneaking Out of Work to Have an AffairThis week’s sex diary.
  3. The Celibate 25-Year-Old Who Still Uses HingeThis week’s sex diary.
  4. The Divorced Business Owner Sleeping With a Younger ManThis week’s sex diary.
  5. The Queer College Student Having a Threesome Before Moving AwayThis week���s sex diary.
  6. The Woman Unsure If She’s on a Date or a Job InterviewThis week’s sex diary.
  7. The 35-Year-Old Looking for a Man Who Wants KidsThis week’s sex diary.
  8. The PR Exec Whose Date Has a Food FetishThis week’s sex diary.
  9. The Mom Having Men Over When Her Teenagers Aren’t HomeThis week’s sex diary.
  10. The Film Exec Distracted by Her Crushes at CannesThis week’s sex diary.
  11. The Divorced Dad Whose Date Is a Little Too Wild in BedThis week’s sex diary.
  12. The 50-Year-Old Fooling Around With a Polo Player in the HamptonsThis week’s sex diary.
  13. The Australian Guy Whose Date Is Into FeetThis week’s sex diary.
  14. The Woman Meeting Her Date at a BathhouseThis week’s “Sex Diary.”
  15. The Married Woman Who Sleeps With a Musician in MiamiThis week’s sex diary.
  16. The Freelance Journalist Meeting a Fling in CapriThis week’s sex diary.
  17. The Mom Dating an Ethically Nonmonogamous GuyThis week’s sex diary.
  18. The Painter Whose Long-Distance Boyfriend Has a New LoverThis week’s sex diary.
  19. The Woman Who Flies to Another City for Rebound SexThis week’s sex diary.
  20. The Real Estate Developer Having Great Sex With Her ExThis week’s sex diary.
  21. The Record Store Worker Questioning Non-MonogamyThis week’s sex diary.
  22. The Woman Falling for a Real-Life ‘Indiana Jones’This week’s sex diary.
  23. The Assistant Who Sleeps With a Guy in a Santa CostumeThis week’s sex diary.
  24. The Woman Who Has Sex for the First Time in 17 YearsThis week’s sex diary.
  25. The Woman Whose Mom Sends Her Money to Join a Dating AppThis week’s sex diary.
  26. The Nurse Whose Husband Wants Sex Every NightThis week’s sex diary.
  27. The Divorced Guy Too Tired for SexThis week’s sex diary.
  28. The Art-Museum Worker Sleeping With a Married CoupleThis week’s sex diary.
  29. The Grad Student With a ‘Praise Kink’This week’s sex diary.
  30. The Single Mom Overwhelmed by Her Party-Girl DateThis week’s sex diary.
  31. The Divorced Consultant Turned Off by Her Date’s KidsThis week’s sex diary.
  32. The Polyamorous Farmer Looking for Lovers in the Off-SeasonThis week’s sex diary.
  33. The Utah Woman With 3 BoyfriendsThis week’s sex diary.
  34. The 69 Best Sex Diaries of All TimeThese are the diaries that blew up our group texts, inspired an internet conspiracy or two, and still make us blush all these years later.
  35. The 9 Most-Read Sex Diaries in 2023From a Hollywood assistant with a sugar daddy to a Connecticut dermatologist excited about a threesome with her husband.
  36. The OnlyFans Model Looking for Sugar Daddies in LondonThis week’s sex diary.
  37. The Bartender Whose Lover Forgot Her BirthdayThis week’s sex diary.
  38. The Woman Who’s Worried Her Co-worker Is Dating Her ExThis week’s sex diary.
  39. The Lawyer Having Breakup Sex Before WorkThis week’s sex diary.
  40. The Woman Getting Flown Out for a One-Night StandThis week’s sex diary.
  41. The Interior Decorator Who Wants to Seduce Her TrainerThis week’s sex diary.
  42. The Yoga Instructor Whose One-Night Stand Might Be MarriedThis week’s sex diary.
  43. The 40-Year-Old Trying to Party His Ex AwayThis week’s sex diary.
  44. The Literary Agent Who Has an Affair and Leaves Her HusbandThis week’s sex diary.
  45. The Woman Jealous of Her Boyfriend’s Date“It is my first week being in an officially ethically nonmonogamous relationship.”
  46. The 52-Year-Old Scientist Having His First ThreesomeThis week’s sex diary.
  47. The Woman Getting Back Into Group SexThis week’s sex diary.
  48. The Executive Assistant With a Sugar Daddy in CalabasasThis week’s sex diary.
  49. The 41-Year-Old Discovering That She Likes Dirty TalkThis week’s sex diary.
  50. The Woman Getting the “Ick” From Her DateThis week’s sex diary.
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