By Imogen Dewey
Publication Date: 2026-05-01 22:19:00
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In the meantime, enjoy this and have a nice weekend.
1. Life as a sex writer
Tracy Clark-Flory was 24 when her personal essay about casual sex went viral. She knew the issue was complex for her mother, whose teenage pregnancy 20 years before Clark-Flory was born caused her own world to “collapse around her.”
Somewhere out there, she writes, she had a half-sister who her desperate mother, plagued by social shame, had given up for adoption.
Then they came together again: and Clark-Flory began to realize how hidden her mother was…
