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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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High-Profile Men Can’t Seem to Stop Defending the Sexual Abuse of Children

One especially disturbing twist of the Epstein story? All the famous guys insisting pedophilia is no big deal

Do Gay Men and Straight Men Flirt the Same?

Straight men are suffering under the same outdated, high-pressure cultural scripts. But for their queer brothers, the rules are even more complex

What’s Wrong With a Little Suffocation During Sex?

Millennials are popularizing kinks like facefucking and facesitting — a ‘vulnerable, open and tender’ side of BDSM far more caring than it looks in mainstream porn

Could a Real Men’s Movement Be a Good Thing?

Talking to Men About Their Female Role Models Is Still Like Pulling Teeth

What Happens When Professors See Their Students on Dating Apps?

This Is What Happens When Everyone Is a ‘Bully’

A Cultural History of the ‘Dump Him!’ Friend

What Should We Make of Dan Savage’s Legacy?

Fellas, Is It Gay to Save the Planet?

The Difficulty With Presenting As Bisexual

Some Working-Class Names Aren’t Just Looked Down Upon — They’re Illegal