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Arielle Domb

@arielledomb.bsky.social
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Journalist @ The New York Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, VICE, Vogue etc laidbare.substack.com arielleyasmindomb@gmail.com

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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In my latest Substack, I interview journalist Tilèwa Kazeem about reporting on sex and gender in Lagos. We talk about finding stories ANYWHERE, building trust with sources, and homebrewed Viagra dupes.
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Good morning! I’m looking to speak with men who live with their parent(s) in the UK. DM me or email me at arielleyasmindomb@gmail.com if you’re up for an (anonymous) chat 💌
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I have a new Substack article on scrotal saline infusion (and other niche sexual practices).
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I spoke to men who were into inflating their scrotal sacs with saline (or various other fluids)…. exploring what the desire for bigger and bigger balls reveals about sex, kink and masculinity... Read the story in Men's Health.
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My latest LAID BARE newsletter is about AI sl*t-shaming and the rise of sexual conservatism among Gen Z men. Become a paid subscriber to read it and support independent journalism for £5/month💌
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NEW newsletter on body counts and AI-generated slutshaming in your inboxes this weekend. Subscribe to LAID BARE if you want it in yours 💌
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
In January, I flew to Zurich to profile Guram Gvasalia, the creative director of Vetements for GQ. Read it online and in print now ⭐
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I wrote about what it means to be hot for @NewStatesman…. featuring Aristotle + 18th century philosophers + Jia Tolentino ❤️‍🔥🧠🤓
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
In my latest piece for GQ, I write about the men whose fertility challenges are keeping them awake at night… and the shadowy wild west of unregulated supplements and lifestyle hacks that cater to their concerns. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In my first story for The Observer, I wrote about the rise of TikTokers flocking to Antarctica — and what it means for the melting continent. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I divulged my most controversial London take in The Standard: Canary Wharf is…. kind of amazing ?? Read why I’m OBSESSED with the capital’s financial district and why a giddy Canary Wharf summer may be on the horizon…. in print and online ✍🏻✍🏻
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The 90° date is here. As alcohol consumption and boozy first dates are on the decline in Britain, singles are opting to meet up in saunas instead. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Police sexual misconduct allegations have surged by a third, according to new data released by the Home Office. I spoke to legal experts about the latest data and how police investigation processes are still failing some survivors of sexual abuse.
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
When I was living in New York City, I started hanging out with a woman named Hattie Wiener, an OnlyFans performer, who was 87 years old. I wrote about (and photographed) Hattie for Huck in early 2024, and it was one of my favourite stories I've ever worked on. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Young British men are driving the nation's spike in nicotine pouch usage... for New Statesman, I investigate why.
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Good morning! I wrote a new Substack 💌
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
New substack on why dating apps fail... 💌
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
In Vallejo, California, a higher percentage of young adults live with their parents than anywhere else in the US 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Some messy thoughts on the sociopolitics of oversharing written on the last day of 2025..
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
In my early twenties, I was prescribed anxiety medication (an SSRI called sertraline) by a GP who I never saw again. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I'd much prefer that we were asking each other out in cafes and pubs... but if we're on dating apps, we may as well be intentional about how we're using them. I spoke to experts at Hinge, Tinder and Feeld about how to write a better dating app profile.
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I wrote about the terrifying world of AI toys for New Statesman 🧸🍬 www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Last week the UK gov confirmed it would be banning choking scenes in porn — a move that has been described as progress by some and misguided censorship by others. I attempt to untangle this knotty topic in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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The choking porn ban is not enough
The government announced that it will prohibit "vile and dangerous" strangulation pornography
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I wrote about Black Venus' erotic wrestling battles that take place in a secret location in East London — and delved into the tender world of kink wrestling. Read my article in Feeld's magazine, AFM 💪🏼👠🫦 feeld.co/magazine/ple...
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Why does Andrew Tate think that straight sex can be gay? I investigate on my Substack. laidbare.substack.com/p/is-sex-for...
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I wrote about the far right’s love affair with deranged AI slop — and what it means for British politics for New Statesman. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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The far right loves AI slop
Surreal imagery has been slipping into the British political consciousness. We should be wary
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
For the past year, I’ve been interviewing men who took finasteride for hair loss and say they have experienced catastrophic side effects ever since: brain fog. Insomnia. Anxiety. Genital shrinking. Muscle weakness. Suicidal ideation. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New substack on returning to New York and feeling crazy💌👁️👄👁️ Subscribe to LAID BARE for free - laidbare.substack.com
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
For The New Statesman: I wrote about the next stage of the vaping revolution… and how the industry seems to be deliberately appealing to children 🚬🍬🍭🍧 www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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Vape to save your pet
Smart vapes have made a game out of e-cigarettes
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In my first article for The New Statesman, I wrote about Labubu fever.. and what it tells us about ourselves and our social worlds. 🧵 www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...
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Labubu and the infantilisation of the West
Why are Brits now unable to sleep without fluffy toys?
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Are Gen Z *actually* bad at partying? I spoke to young adults about how they party in London to find out... www.timeout.com/london/news/...
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Are Gen Z *actually* bad at partying?
The younger generation is back on the booze – but were Gen Z ever as boring as what headlines would have us believe?
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"Performative males" have been the internet's laughing stock in recent weeks, leaving men who enjoy iced matchas, Labubus, tote bags and reading Joan Didion open to ridicule... I spoke to men about what they made of the "performative male" trend. standard.co.uk/lifestyle/da...
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What men think about the performative male trope
As aspiring performative males fight it out in the capital this weekend, some men are fed up with the joke
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
NEW Substack: I interviewed New York City artist Lindsay Dye about the sticky, sensual pleasures of cake-sitting. We chatted about being a camgirl, anthropomorphic desserts & what colour cakes are a no-go for cake-sitting. Subscribe for free! 💌🧁🍧🎀💋 laidbare.substack.com/p/the-sticky...
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The Sticky, Sensual Pleasures of Cake-Sitting
Where does cakesitting come from? Who started it? Why do people do it? And what about cake — specifically — is so sexy?
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Just under a month since the Online Safety Act’s new age verification rules came into place, the number of people accessing p*rnography in the UK has decreased sharply. But whether the numbers are indicative of progress depends on who you ask. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thank you to The Standard for my dream commission... I got single men who date women in London to give me the tea about their dating lives. Do women really have the worse end of the stick, or is it just as hard for guys? www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ge...
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'Singles events are like a meat factory': What young men really think about dating
Male-scepticism is rife among straight female daters, with many women giving up on relationships entirely. But do they really have the worse end of the stick, or is it just as hard for guys? Arielle D...
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I wrote about the joys of late-night dining (and rewiring my relationship to my own appetite) for The Standard. standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
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Gen Z are eating dinner at 6pm — and it's because they're losers
During university I was loose about a lot of things (drinking, dating, washing my bed sheets). But when it came to dining, I was militant. If you were meeting me for lunch, we were eating supermarket ...
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Nearly two thirds (64 per cent) of young men believe that it should be harder to access online p*rnography, up 11% from 2013.🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NEW substack about reporting on NYC subculture. Subscribe for free 💌 laidbare.substack.com/p/kinky-cats...
New York City subculture journalism reporting
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
For Service 95 - I went to London’s messiest tea party… a sticky, sensual cake-sitting event where every performer was trans and non-binary. Words and photos by me 🧁👄 www.instagram.com/p/DMqZXeDx-p...
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've started a Substack.
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
New episode out! A couple are into CNC scenarios. But when he asked her to drug him, have her way with him and share him with her friends, it gave her pause. On the Magnum, hear from @arielledomb.bsky.social, the writer who spent the evening in a Berlin sex doll hotel with "Techno Babe."
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Last August, I left my ex's flat in East London and moved back in with my parents at the other end of the Northern Line. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I went to a sauna rave and wrote about it for i-D. Photos by me 🫧 i-d.co/article/saun...
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Sauna Raves Are Coming to London
No booze. No clothes. Just heat, music—and maybe enlightenment, courtesy of a bartender named Karma.
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In my first article for VICE, I flew to Berlin to spend a night at Cybrothel, an AI sex doll brothel. www.vice.com/en/article/m...
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My Awkward Night in an AI Sex Doll Brothel
Techno Babe isn’t like the other girls in Berlin. She lives in secret; her neighbors don't know she is there. And crucially, she isn't human.
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I went to the London launch party of Lox Club, a 1920s-deli-inspired "Jew-ish" dating app. www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/lo...
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Inside the Lox Club: is 'Jew-ish Raya' the answer to dating app fatigue?
With its offering of quirky in-person meet-ups — from gay Shabbat dinners to magic shows — can this popular US app transform the stale London dating landscape? Arielle Domb finds out
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
For much of Western modern history, menopause has been regarded as a period of physical and psychological decline. But for some menstruating people, it can also be a beginning — the start of an exciting new life chapter. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Last month, I traveled to Barcelona to meet the Swedish porn director Erika Lust, who, for the past 20+ years, has been creating porn that champions ethical working conditions, embracing sexual diversity and realistic depictions of female pleasure. 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I interviewed men who are in relationships with sex dolls for Men's Health magazine. Many of these stories amounted to a tale about loneliness in Trump's America and what it means to be a man in the US today. www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a6...
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The Hidden Lives of Guys With Sex Doll Girlfriends
Meet the men who have given up on dating in favor of artificial, inanimate partners.
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Why do we become obsessed with our partners' exes? 🧵
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Arielle Domb @arielledomb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Apparently the dopamine spike after two minutes spent in an ice bath is similar to that of a line of cocaine... 🧵
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