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Top, bottom or switch?

Top, bottom or switch? No, that’s not the title of a 70s game show… I’m talking about who does what in the bedroom. Which is also not the title of a 70s game show.

If you flinched at those roles, I get it. Not everyone subscribes and they can feel generic. However, earlier in the year I dated a self-styled “sneaky bottom” and discovered the world of complexity and beauty those words can harbour.

My “sneaky bottom” (aka a lovely yoga teacher who prefers to be known as “perfect goddess” – nice try, “sneaky bottom”) doesn’t “necessarily relate to being a bottom”. When we chatted for this piece she said, “I enjoy being with someone who’s a top, but I don’t think of

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