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Rachel Thompson

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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By Cassie Murdoch

The new dating app that aims to include people with disabilities

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01/30/2017

By Cassie Murdoch

Bumble BFF just raised $40,000 for Planned Parenthood

The social app donated ten cents for every friend people found.

01/27/2017

By Cassie Murdoch

Liberal ladies: You're killing it on OKCupid

Caring about other people and being open-minded are desirable traits -- even in Trump's America.

01/27/2017

By Cassie Murdoch

Liberal ladies: You're killing it on OKCupid

Liberal ladies: You're killing it on OKCupid

3D-printed sex organs help blind students learn about sexual health

Sex ed just got more accessible.

01/26/2017

By Katie Dupere

The downside of a bionic penis? A two-week boner.

A man has had over 100 surgeries to create a bionic penis. Now doctors just need to turn him, er, it on.

01/26/2017

By Cassie Murdoch

Match launches new location-based missed connections feature

It's a new way to see if your potential soulmate has been hiding in plain sight

01/25/2017

By Cassie Murdoch

What is breadcrumbing on dating apps?

Here's why your matches aren't meeting you IRL.

01/25/2017

By Rachel Thompson

Why more and more singles in China are renting partners

And it's not for hook-ups.

01/20/2017

By Yi Shu Ng

This man wants to make dating great again for Trump supporters

"We really need to come together to make America great again."

01/19/2017

By Rachel Thompson

Today's the day to cuff your Trump-era boyfriend

Wanted: (nuclear) winter boyfriend.

01/19/2017

By Cassie Murdoch

London's most popular man on Happn tells us how to build the best profile

It's surprisingly straightforward.

01/17/2017

By Rachel Thompson

Hinge's new captions can get you twice the likes

Photos with captions got two times as many likes as those that didn’t.

01/13/2017

By Cassie Murdoch

Guys show us their best poses for Tinder profile photos

"You can't just stand there and smile."

01/07/2017

By Rachel Thompson

Tinder trolls CES by pitching a regular reality headset

VR without the V.

01/05/2017

By Chloe Bryan

First messages to send on Tinder if you want to be forever alone

#ForeverAlone

01/02/2017

By Sophie Hirsh

First messages to send on Tinder if you want to be forever alone

First messages to send on Tinder if you want to be forever alone

7 ways online dating became more advanced in 2016

Go forth and swipe in 2017.

12/31/2016

By Rachel Thompson

7 ways online dating became more advanced in 2016

7 ways online dating became more advanced in 2016

What's next after VR porn? Hologram porn, apparently.

An adult entertainment company plans to introduce "live holographic streaming" of its "camgirls" to the world next month.

12/16/2016

By Raymond Wong

Bedroom not hot enough? Get a $250 lube warmer

Would you spend that much?

12/14/2016

By Sophie Hirsh

Bedroom not hot enough? Get a $250 lube warmer

Bedroom not hot enough? Get a $250 lube warmer

Tinder on TV is your new favourite party game

Monopoly is dead.

12/13/2016

By Rachel Thompson

6 films about being single that are actually relatable

Heads up: the characters don't always find love at the end.

11/26/2016

By Rachel Thompson

Hinge won't actually make everyone pay to keep using the dating app

Some Hinge users are getting lifetime memberships.

11/04/2016

By Emma Hinchliffe

Swiping is the new cheating—or is it?

Exclusivity isn't the same as it used to be.

11/04/2016

By Rachel Thompson

Tinder lets swipers around the world 'vote' in the US presidential election

Users in over 15 countries can swipe on some of the election's most important topics.

10/27/2016

By Rachel Thompson

Hinge relaunches as a paid members-only relationships app, moving away from Tinder

Hinge wants to be Match.com for the next generation.

10/11/2016

By Kerry Flynn

Hinge relaunches as a paid members-only relationships app, moving away from Tinder

Hinge relaunches as a paid members-only relationships app, moving away from Tinder