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Madeleine Holden

Madeleine Holden is a lawyer and freelance writer based between Berlin and New Zealand. She writes about relationships, sex, gender and whatever the hell else she feels like for MEL.

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The State of the Male Gaze

Is it the Female Gaze now? Or the Queer Gaze? Or is it such a relic of the past that it’s impossible to reimagine?

Stop Saying ‘Ghosting’ Is Abuse

How the internet’s tendency to exaggerate dilutes the gravity of abusive relationships

Big Areolae and the Men Who Love Them

Some women are self-conscious about their large nipples, but for many men they’re an enormous turn-on