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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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Coming Out As Trans Is Weird As Fuck When You Don’t Pass

‘They say things like, ‘You’re not really a trans guy.’ They have this super-narrow idea of what it means.’

On the Front Lines of the Battle for Better Sex Ed

Maybe the most important lesson — sex itself is just the half of it

My High School Teacher Was a Hero in Our Community. Years Ago, He Groomed Me for Sex.

This is why I can't stay silent any longer — and what sharing my story has already done to prevent this type of abuse from happening again

What It’s Really Like to Come Out as a Sex Worker

The Fraught Negotiation of Determining How Much Time to Spend With Your Family Versus Your Partner’s

Men on the Shopping Sprees That Made Them Feel Better

If You Want to Be More Productive and Comfortable at the Office, Get on Your Knees

The Undeniable Pleasure of Smoking Weed After Eating

The Men Who Watch Porn That Reflects Their Actual Sex Lives

I’ve Spent the Last Week Vaping My Vitamins

Dating’s Greatest Quandary: To Sit Side-by-Side or Face-to-Face at Restaurants?

Howard Hughes and Hollywood’s Original Harvey Weinsteins