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Tierney Finster

Tierney Finster is a journalist, screenwriter, actor and model from Los Angeles, California. She is a contributing writer at MEL, specializing in love, sex, mental health, drugs, queer culture and the cannabis industry. She has written for publications such as Playboy, Purple, Dazed and Confused, Jezebel and Broadly and was the key researcher behind Sex On, HBO’s revival of its iconoclastic docu-series Real Sex.

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I Spent Sunday at a Weed Farmer’s Market

I thought we were going to Malibu. Instead, I’m boarding a shuttle at the Hilton in Westlake Village, the Republican enclave in Ventura County known for,…

The Men of Beautycon

We spoke to six very different guys about why they attended the ever-more-popular cosmetics expo

Coming Out as Depressed

Two 20-somethings on telling their partners and co-workers the truth about their mental health

Why Didn’t My Parents Just Tell Me They Smoke Weed?

James Baldwin Was Way Ahead of His Time on Gender

Sex Researcher David Ley Wants You to Consume Porn Ethically, Like Fair-Trade Coffee

This Teen Curator Is the Future of the Art World

Movies That Changed Genre When We Were High

Three Trans Americans on Trump’s Military Ban (aka Those Tweets)

It’s Not Just Goop’s Vaginal Egg—There Are Crystal Sex Toys for Men, Too

A Practical Guide to Whiteness in the Age of Trump

The Guy Who’s Made a Career of Documenting Celebs Getting Stoned