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Sex Diaries

New York Magazine’s Sex Diaries series asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives — with comic, tragic, often sexy, and always revealing results. The column, which began in 2007, is the basis of a docuseries on HBO.

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How I Get Strangers to Talk About Their Sex Lives

 To write the Sex Diaries column every week, I stop people on the bus, ask my cashier at CVS, or even beg my next-door neighbors. By Alyssa Shelasky

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  1. The Reality-TV Producer Sleeping With a Guitar PlayerThis week’s sex diary.
  2. The Divorced Dad Prepping for His First Sex PartyThis week’s sex diary.
  3. The Married Mom Having Sex on Her Friend’s Bachelorette TripThis week’s sex diary.
  4. The Filmmaker Who Knows This Guy Is Probably Bad NewsThis week’s sex diary.
  5. The Musician Sleeping With a Married WomanThis week’s sex diary.
  6. The Guy Wondering Why He Got Blocked on GrindrThis week’s sex diary.
  7. The 35-Year-Old Dating a Drummer With a Trust FundThis week’s sex diary.
  8. The Woman Hitting on a Hot French Guy From Her Yoga ClassThis week’s sex diary.
  9. The Woman Day Dreaming About the New Couple She Met on FeeldThis week’s sex diary.
  10. The Restaurant Publicist Wondering If Her New Man Is ToxicThis week’s sex diary.
  11. The Producer Who Thinks Secrets Are Okay in a MarriageThis week’s sex diary.
  12. The College Student Who Gets Dumped for a Dance MajorThis week’s “Sex Diary.”
  13. The Tokyo Woman Flying to Milan for a Former Co-workerThis week’s sex diary.
  14. The Creative Director Getting a Little Tired of FeeldThis week’s sex diary.
  15. The 55-Year-Old Scheduling a Week of PlaydatesThis week’s sex diary.
  16. The Content Creator Exploring Her Interest in RopesThis week’s sex diary.
  17. The Woman Who Thinks She Has ‘Sexsomnia’This week’s sex diary.
  18. The Married Dermatologist Having a Threesome in ConnecticutThis week’s sex diary.
  19. The Freelancer Hoping She Can Satisfy Her Younger GirlfriendThis week’s sex diary.
  20. Looking Back on Eight Years of Sex DiariesOn this week’s episode of the Cut’s podcast, Alyssa Shelasky talks about turning her popular column into an HBO docuseries.
  21. The Publicist Wondering Who’s Calling His Boyfriend at NightThis week’s sex diary.
  22. I Read All 707 New York Sex DiariesThis is what I learned.
  23. How I Get Strangers to Talk About Their Sex LivesTo write the Sex Diaries column every week, I stop people on the bus, ask my cashier at CVS, or even beg my next-door neighbors.
  24. HBO’s ‘Sex Diaries’ Series Drops FridayInspired by New York Magazine’s weekly column, the four-part series will profile eight New Yorkers navigating sex and dating.
  25. The Chef Kissing Her Ex Behind Her Boyfriend’s BackThis week’s sex diary.
  26. The Vermont Woman Who Blows Off Work for a Tinder DateThis week’s sex diary.
  27. The Divorced Lawyer Who Loves Getting Ready for DatesThis week’s sex diary.
  28. The Wine-Shop Worker Checking Out the Hot Delivery GuyThis week’s sex diary.
  29. The Queens Woman Having Passionate Breakup SexThis week’s sex diary.
  30. The Influencer Sexting From a Press TripThis week’s sex diary.
  31. The Model Flirting With Bankers in TribecaThis week’s sex diary.
  32. The Woman Navigating Her First Week of NonmonogamyThis week’s sex diary.
  33. The 28-Year-Old Partying a Little Too Hard in MontaukThis week’s sex diary.
  34. The Copywriter Seeing 3 Men in 3 CitiesThis week’s sex diary.
  35. The Writer Staying on Her Crush’s CouchThis week’s sex diary.
  36. The Event Planner Whose Chef Boyfriend Wants More SexThis week’s sex diary.
  37. The Long Island Woman Who Goes to Vegas With a Hinge DateThis week’s sex diary.
  38. The Teacher Who Still Texts Her Ex Every DayThis week’s sex diary.
  39. The Content Creator Trying to Ghost Her DateThis week’s sex diary.
  40. The Woman Secretly Moving in With Her Boyfriend in UgandaThis week’s sex diary.
  41. The Makeup Artist Who Meets a Hot Italian Waiter on VacationThis week’s sex diary.
  42. The Artist Who’s Not Sure She Loves Her Comedian BoyfriendThis week’s sex diary.
  43. The Grad Student Who Meets Someone on Facebook MarketplaceThis week’s sex diary.
  44. The Woman Secretly Dating a Professor She Works WithThis week’s sex diary.
  45. The Poly Educator Who Still Gets a Little JealousThis week’s sex diary.
  46. The Woman Taking a Fitness Class With Her Secret LoverThis week’s sex diary.
  47. The Lawyer Who Just Wants a Hot Vacation FlingThis week’s sex diary.
  48. The Queer Divorcé Exploring PolyamoryThis week’s sex diary.
  49. The Editor Tidying Up Just in Case His Lover CallsThis week’s sex diary.
  50. The College Student Whose Exes Are Hooking Up With Each OtherThis week’s sex diary.
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