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    My Favorite F***ing Movie: Yes, God, Yes

    / May 6, 2025

    Apologies for this month’s essay being a smidge late; my husband recently started a night job at Universal and I barely know what day it is lately. My birthday was in April and…

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    My Favorite F***ing Movie: All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

    / April 1, 2025

    I have Covid right now—get vaccinated kiddos, it’s still a thing!—so I wasn’t able to finish the essay I had planned on posting this month. Instead, enjoy this essay that originally appeared in…

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    My Favorite F***ing Movie: Only Lovers Left Alive

    / February 28, 2025

    My mom died last October and ever since—and despite being a pretty skeptical agnostic most of my life—I haven’t been able to help imagining some sort of afterlife. The possibility of it. Coupled…

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    New Essay Series: My Favorite F***ing Movie

    / January 30, 2025

    I’m very excited to announce a new essay series I’ll be releasing monthly all year long: My Favorite F***ing Movie is a personal exploration of sex through film, and Go (1999) is the…

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    Life Update: The Bitch is Back

    / December 10, 2024

    …the bitch being my cyst. Or me, I guess, if you count whiny little bitches. If you’ve been following the saga of my Bartholin cyst, whelp—it came back a few months ago. I…

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    Elust Issue 176

    / September 22, 2024

    Cover image courtesy of Eddy. Photography by Maurice Farrell. Elust is the only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month. Whether you’re looking for sex…

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    How I Deal with Estrogen Dominance (without birth control)

    / August 19, 2024

    Ever since I started getting my period as a teen, my cycle has been erratic and my periods have been heavy and long. Almost immediately, they started coming every two weeks, usually lasting…

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  • Yellow wall with flowers growing up alongside it.
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    Bartholin Cyst Recovery Diary #3

    / July 30, 2024

    Well, folks, it finally happened. Almost exactly five months after my traumatic, painful, entirely shitty experience getting an infected Bartholin gland cyst lanced and drained in the emergency room… I finally had sex…

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  • Cover image by Nyala Mali.
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    Elust Issue 175

    / July 24, 2024

    Cover image courtesy of Nyala Mali. Elust is the only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month. Whether you’re looking for sex journalism, erotic writing,…

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    Book Review: Pointe of Pride by Chloe Angyal

    / July 23, 2024

    I’m a firm believer in romance novels as tools for self-exploration. I think these books are an invaluable way to discover things about your body and sexuality in a manner that is virtually…

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Hello! I'm Claire, a writer and poet living in Los Angeles, and this is L.A. Jayne - a girly repository for all of my thoughts. I write about sex and queerness in life, art, and culture, and also about navigating women's health (with chronic pain) in the hellscape that is the U.S. health care system. Come for the rants, stay for the heartfelt essays and practical advice. I also have killer taste in movies.

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