Answering questions from the Sex subreddit

On discernment, synaesthesia, and faking your orgasms

Despite my better judgment, I love the Sex subreddit. It’s a wild whirlpool of weirdness. Sometimes I go there hoping to dole out advice on vibrators and blowjobs, and find myself suddenly writing a philosophical essay about the function of pleasure in the world, or whatever. For today’s newsletter I thought it would be fun to answer a few of these bigg…