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Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

anna iovine, a white woman with curly chin-length brown hair, smiles at the camera
Associate Editor, Features
 

Anna Iovine is the associate editor of features at Mashable. Previously, as the sex and relationships reporter, she covered topics ranging from dating apps to pelvic pain. Before Mashable, Anna was a social editor at VICE and freelanced for publications such as Slate and the Columbia Journalism Review. Follow her on Bluesky.

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Green dating: the singles swiping left on climate complacency
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How sex workers bank their money, since Mastercard abandoned them
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How problematic is bi pornography?
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How to have sex using a strap-on
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Introducing Lovehoney's new music-activated sex toys
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Tinder is losing some momentum and Gen Z could be why
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Can you have sex when you have a yeast infection?
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TikTok loves 'natural' birth control. But is it right for you?
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How to finger your partner
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Everything you need to know about monkeypox
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How do antidepressants affect your orgasms?
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So, your partner has a different sex drive to you. What should you do?
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Sex addiction isn't recognised by science. So, why are people still being diagnosed?
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Bumble to let nonbinary users message anyone first
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What is an inadequate cervical screening result?
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How to have sex on your period
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