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Rachel Thompson

Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Based in the UK, Rachel writes about sex, relationships, and online culture. She has been a sex and dating writer for a decade and she is the author of Rough (Penguin Random House, 2021). She is currently working on her second non-fiction book.

Rachel's first book Rough – a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence and systems of oppression – was published by Penguin Random House in 2021. Stylist magazine called Rough "2021’s most important book about sex" and you can read an extract of the book on Mashable. Rachel contributed an essay titled "Choosing Myself" to Unattached, an anthology of 30 essays about singlehood, published by Penguin Random House in 2022. You can read an extract from "Choosing Myself" on Mashable.

Rachel has also written for The Guardian, GQ, The Sunday Times, British Glamour, ELLE, Stylist, The Daily Telegraph, CNN, HuffPost, The Face and many more. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram.


By Rachel Thompson
Why I'm celebrating female friendship this Valentine's Day

How to survive Valentine's Day when you're heartbroken

Bumble launches AI tool to weed out scams and fake profiles

How to stop caring what people think about you

How to work on your self-esteem with these helpful tips


I've never had a boyfriend at Christmas and I couldn't be happier

How to cope with heartbreak during the holidays


Stop asking 'who's your friend?' on dating apps

'Colin from Accounts' is a messy, funny as hell rom-com

How to break up with someone in the digital age

'Orlando, My Political Biography' trailer tells trans people's stories through Virginia Woolf

I haven't had a boyfriend for a decade. Here's what I've learned.

How to separate romantic rejection from your self-worth

How to block your ex on Tinder

My Hinge match invited me to dinner and blocked me as I waited for our table


The lonely state of getting over someone you never dated

How to pause notifications on Threads

Instagram censors #VaginalCancer hashtag, allows #VaginalSteaming

The cherry emoji and 14 other emoji you can use to sext

Sharing deepfake porn criminalised in England and Wales

What to do when body image is affecting your sex life

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