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1 month ago | 
standard.co.uk | Shon Faye |Claudia Cockerell
It’s often bandied around that young people aren’t having as much sex as their forefathers. A 2024 study from the Kinsey Institute found that Gen Z had sex on average three times a month, compared to Millennials and Gen X whose average was five times a month. This has earned Zoomers the nickname “Puriteens”, yet for many of them, it’s a choice. While some are opting to have more meaningful sex with fewer partners, others are writing it off altogether and taking up voluntary celibacy.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Shon Faye |Nussaibah Younis
Shon Faye, authorIn Naomi Klein’s most recent book Doppelganger, she talks about Philip Roth quite a lot, which made me realise that though I read quite a lot of Roth as a teenager, I hadn’t read American Pastoral, which is often considered his greatest novel. So I read it and it was great – I had forgotten how funny Roth is. I also enjoyed Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, a completely different vibe.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Shon Faye |Natalie Ktena |Tom Glasser |Elizabeth Cassin
Shon Faye, author of Love in Exile, shares her experiences of trying to find love: from a trans teen who thought themselves unworthy of love, to a party girl in her 20s – and now, a woman with a deeper understanding of what real love is. She tells Hannah Moore how recovering from alcohol addiction helped to reframe her understanding of love.
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2 months ago | 
gaytimes.com | Vic Parsons |Bobby Box |Megan Wallace |Shon Faye
Intimacy Ahead of the release of her memoir ‘Love in Exile’, Shon Faye talks T4T relationships, the universality of heartbreak, and her hopes for her male readers.
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2 months ago | 
fashionweekonline.com | Shon Faye |Hannah Longman
Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY presents “I Am a Product”A one-night-only display of British bombast and balderdash in the heart of Paris: a celebration of moral decline. As we were designing Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY’s Autumn/Winter 2025 collection, we became fascinated by the tension between playfulness and existential gloom—an enduring hallmark of countercultural movements throughout history.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Shon Faye
It was, without question, the worst thing that has ever happened to me. Which is a bold claim about a breakup with someone I’d known for all of 18 months. I can be a little dramatic sometimes. But honestly? Not about this. I have never known agony like it. An older pain, the kind caused by far more shocking blows dealt to me in the past, seemed to lie dormant in my bones until the anguish of heartbreak reanimated it. I felt all of it – the old pain and the new – erupt at once.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
frieze.com | Edna Bonhomme |Shon Faye
Shon Faye is one of the most celebrated non-fiction authors in the UK, rising to fame for her discerning prose on culture, relationships and class. Her first book, The Transgender Issue (2021), a provocative treatise on gender identity debates in the UK, was part of her rise to fame. Not only did Faye offer a detailed survey of queer history, but she also indicated why trans-liberation is connected to liberation for all.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
vogue.de | Shon Faye
Dating-Detox: Warum ein Verzicht auf Sex und Verabredungen das Leben (positiv) verändern kannMit Mitte 30 war es so weit: Ich konnte in meinem Sexleben nichts mehr machen, was auch nur im Entferntesten für Aufregung gesorgt hätte. Das mag auch an meinem aufgeschlossenen Umfeld liegen. Irgendein schräger Kink? "Warum nicht mal ausprobieren?" Polyamourös? "Wer ist das nicht in London?" Wilder Dreier?
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
vogue.com | Shon Faye
There is no one untouched by crises of mental health. And yet, when you or someone you love is struggling, it can often feel like you’re alone in the dark, searching for a light. In honor of World Mental Health Day, we are publishing a series of essays, starting today and running through the weekend, that tackle this topic through a personal lens. We hope these essays offer insight into the many ways that people struggle, and how they can come out the other side with dignity and grace.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
dazeddigital.com | Shon Faye
We all know there is a profound connection between our hair and our mental state. There’s that famous line from Fleabag: “Hair is everything…It’s the difference between a good day and a bad day”, and, as a woman, the first thing you get told after a breakup is “don’t change your hair!”. Yet, despite the fact we all know this connection exists, the professional hair industry itself has only just begun to talk about it openly. Enter Adam Reed.
