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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.

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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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11 first date ideas for getting to know someone quickly
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4 of the top dating trends for 2022, so far
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Relationship icks, red flags, and the blurry line that separates them
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How Pornhub changed the world
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The 20 best sex, erotica, and relationship podcasts
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9 horny and romantic books that will completely consume you
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ASMR is supposedly nonsexual. So why is there so much ASMR porn?
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Looking for love? These are the most popular dating sites and apps, according to actual users.
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Sex toys, meet Sephora: How the sexual (marketing) revolution affects where we shop
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Tinder's Festival Mode is back to help you find people at the same live event
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How to run a background check on a Tinder match
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