Peach Magazine Issue v04-03 - Winter Moods

Inspired by the real letters between Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks spanning from 1899 to 1937, this fast-paced comedy asks: What is revolution? What does it mean to be at odds with the world? How do we fulďŹ ll our potential? And how the hell do we grow old together?

JAN 30–FEB 15, 2020

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JANUARY 22, 2020

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Even though the weather refuses to resemble anything like winter, there are still plenty of reasons to curl up on the couch with a new issue of Peach!

In this issue, we let Chris Azzopardi line up what songs by powerful women in music he thought were the best in 2019 – hear him out on page 12. We also have a feature of the very sexy artist Sam Morris who, as a modern-day Tom of Finland, redefines masculinity for us. Check him out on page 14.

To set the (somewhat wintery) mood, I give you my recommendations on some great fragrances for the home and for yourself (page 10), and Mitzi Pennington gives you her version of a wintery mix on page 24.

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That and so much more in this issue of Peach!

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The 90s are trending over the 80s, so it’s time to party like it’s 1999!

It’s 2020, and for the new decade, Tom Thomas – the creator of the successful GAYties 80s party - is back with a new party that takes on a new retro decade: the 90s.

“Although the 80s are still going strong, it is clear that we are starting to turn our attention to the 90s,” explains Tom Thomas, “and like the 80s, this decade is a huge inspiration for me and a rich source of music that is perfect for an awesome party.”

Tom Thomas has again paired up with DJ Mike Pope to curate a playlist that will give you the essence of the 90s, which will not just take you on a journey down memory lane, but keep you moving on the dancefloor. Just remember that the 90s not only gave us even more Madonna, Kylie, Whitney, and Celine Dion, but also the likes of the Spice Girls, Robyn S, Ace of Base, La Bouche, and many more.

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Fragrances and scents mean a lot to me, because they can set a mood or even affect your own sentiment. I rarely leave the house without wearing a fragrance of some sort, and I love setting the mood in my house with a scented candle, a diffuser, or even incense.

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For a room fragrance, it is on the pricey side, but boy, does it smell great, and you have it for a long time. Biggest minus is that Jo Malone doesn’t do refills!

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I was gifted a candle from this brand, and it was such a pleasure to experience the subtle woodsy scent noted.

It’s a bit of an investment, but you get to play with differently scented capsules – and it’s clean and allergyfriendly too!

Illume Juniper Moss Artisan Ceramic Candle, $34

Aera Smart Diffuser, $150

Burning incense can be a little harsh, but you can find lightly scented incense sticks out there, and they are effective if you want to freshen up a large room!

Camille Incense Holder, $8

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This one keeps popping up when I recommend fragrances because it is a beautiful, woody fragrance that develops very nicely on the skin.

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Gucci’s latest creation is universal and, quite frankly, everyone should get into this minerally aromatic fragrance that transcends gender.

Gucci Mémoire d’une Odeur, $120

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For queer-identifying men, idolizing a female performing artist almost comes with the territory. There’s something about a strong, unashamed, and uncompromising female power in a male-dominated world that simply clicks with the LGBTQ+ community. Peach asked Chris Azzopardi, editor of Q Syndicate, to give us his choices for best songs by women last year – because, let’s face it, he is an authority in the topic, and he has interviewed just about everyone on his list!

Bring My Flowers Now Tanya Tucker Country music legend Tanya Tucker’s elegiac coda from her first album in 10 years, “Bring My Flowers Now” off While I’m Livin’, is a frank reflection of leaving this life, its imagery handled with a gentle hand in the song’s music video.

The video features Tucker riding atop a horse, two young girls flanking her and releasing flowers petals to the streets. They stop at one point, wave goodbye. On her journey, Tucker passes a smiling preacher and a man in a convertible.

Finally, she comes to a halt to share a moment with the co-writer of “Flowers” and While I’m Livin’ producer Brandi Carlile, who’s playing the piano; the out singer-songwriter and the country icon relay a deep mutual respect through a simple tip of their hats and a warm, silent acknowledgement. Then Tucker is on her way.

The video is one of the year’s best, its simplicity the perfect match for the small, heartbreakingly specific details in Tucker and Carlile’s plaintive lyrics about Tucker’s life and its message of living for those you love now. “Don’t spend time, tears, or money on my ol’ breathless body. If your heart is in them flowers, bring ‘em on,” she achingly sings. The years on Tucker’s voice are as life-affirming as the song itself. And these – plus its recent Grammy nomination for Song of the Year – are her flowers. Lovingly, Carlile has brought them to her.

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Track Record Miranda Lambert Even Miranda Lambert knows she’s been a little busy with the boys. She mocks her floozy image with dry wit on “Track Record” from her new album Wildcard, owning it and treating it as a shoulder-shrugging fact of her life rather than a rueful self-analysis. I’m obsessed with what might be the Pun of the Year, as Lambert pokes fun at her ways with men, noting that her past is “as checkered as the floor at the diner on Main Street.” She even makes time for a casual dig, namelessly calling out past exes, the “user” and the “loser.” Sonically, there are traces of The War on Drugs in “Track Record,” matching the indie rock band’s signature sound with its hypnotic ’70s-rock-style torrent of glistening guitars and chugging drums. When Lambert sings, “Girls like me don’t mean it but we don’t know better, I got a track record,” you really do have to wonder: Is this the Grindr anthem we’ve all been waiting for?

Love You For Free Cynthia Erivo If church every day was Cynthia Erivo singing “Love You For Free,” my hands would be folded and I’d be at that pew right now. The Broadway star’s sparse, inviting almost prayer of a song is about unconditional love, its warmth radiating through her angelic approach to its gentle, www.peachatl.com

dreamy stride and twinkling sound. The song is among over 30 originals recorded for Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator John Cameron Mitchell’s 10-episode Anthem: Homunculus, an alt-autobiography he produced for the Luminary podcast app. Its central character is Ceann Mackay (voiced by Mitchell), whose brain tumor is essentially collective Catholic guilt and shame. Erivo plays Joan the Bishop, the mother of his child. The singer’s greatest contribution, and perhaps the greatest from any of the podcast’s performers, Patti LuPone and Glenn Close among them, is “Love You For Free.” For the world’s outcasts, queers and others who have felt rejected by any church, hearing Erivo sing, “In this world, my child, you have a place,” is like falling into arms that won’t let you go.

Cornelia Street Taylor Swift The lyrical cornerstone of Taylor Swift’s Lover album, “Cornelia Street” shares some DNA with tender story-song “All Too Well,” off her 2012 Red release. Both summon images with the striking vividness of a photograph. The latter happens to be one of Swift’s best written songs – and now so is “Cornelia Street.” The sole writer of the song, Swift is confronting the fear of potential romantic loss, setting the scene over gentle, rolling synths like a movie whose image shifts aspect ratios. She’s riding in the backseat with her man, Londoner Joe Alwyn, drunk in love, maybe, but definitely drunk on “something stronger than the drinks in the bar.”

She’s afraid of losing him. This is serious. The song rolls on like the car she’s singing about, accelerating at the chorus, a flood of sound pouring in; there are car-door and wiper-blade sound effects tucked into Jack Antonoff’s production, which also includes a heartfelt piano break. “Cornelia Street” is like going back to a good book. You discover something new and wonderful every time.

Bible and a .44 Trisha Yearwood Trisha Yearwood turns words on a page into country-music magic, but the singer is at her best when those words tell a story as rich as the one CMA Best New Artist Ashley McBryde wrote for “Bible and a .44.” Yearwood’s finest moment on her latest album, Every Girl, is this weepy, which illustrates the lessons a father has passed down to his child. Made personal by the death of Yearwood’s own dad in 2005, the singer fondly remembers what he looked like (“hair as white as a cottonfield”) and what he taught her (to be perceptive, to love the Lord, to “take what you’ve got and do the best you can”). The guitar softening to a whisper, she reflects on seeing him strumming “this thing,” which “he left it to me like he said he would.”

Before the final chorus, Yearwood reminds us, her warm, no-frills vocals accompanied by Patty Loveless’s soulful harmonies and ad-libs, of how certain things become our most prized possessions: “And if you ask me why it sounds so good, it’s ‘cause I’m holdin’ onto more than strings and wood.”

Higher Love Whitney Houston When Whitney Houston’s unreleased cover of Steve Winwood’s 1986 hit “Higher Love” was released during June Pride Month, I made my gay friends listen to it any way I could. Of note was the time this past summer when I flung open my car doors and cranked this one up, the song’s divinity thumping in a public parking lot. Not only did my closest friends hear, but so did many lucky passersby. I was doing them a favor that day, because Whitney’s never-beforereleased-in-America cover, originally recorded during her I’m Your Baby Tonight sessions and reimagined as a club banger thanks to Norwegian DJ Kygo, is gay dance heaven. She sounds incredible, and Kygo enlivens the song at every turn, taking it beyond its very ’80s origins and into timeless soul-revival territory.

This is exactly the Whitney I want to remember.

-As editor of Q Syndicate, the international LGBT wire service, Chris Azzopardi has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. Reach him at chris@pridesource.com.

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Erotic Artist Sam Morris Redefines Masculinity In 2020

By Rob Simmons Photos by Sam Morris Sam Morris is often called the modern-day Tom of Finland. Like his predecessor, Sam Morris’ work is stylized, homoerotic fetish art that depicts the quintessential gay male. However, where Tom of Finland celebrated men with extreme muscular body types, often performing aggressive sex acts, Morris’ work tends to focus on the handsome but relatable ‘boy next door’ gay man. “I aim to create an aesthetic that is romantic, yet sexy,” he explains. “My work invites the viewer to fantasize over the man they have a crush on at work, or maybe the one that works at the local coffee shop or the DILF they are secretly following on social media.”

In his art, Morris embraces masculinity while also recognizing a man’s inherent femininity.

“Wearing masculinity as an outfit to conform is not healthy,” he argues.

“Men should express both sides of their personalities freely, without prohibition, how and when they wish.”

His main message is that the body and sex can be explored in a beautifully artistic way without being smutty or cheap.

“I’m not interested in the ‘money shot’ that adult film companies are after,” he says. “For me, it’s more about capturing a man’s vulnerability; photographing the subject so that the viewer sees him as a boyfriend or a lover rather than a piece of meat.”

Currently single, Morris admits he was a hopeless romantic at one time, but the demise of his last few relationships have led to him thinking differently of love. “I am open to many different kinds of romance today. I have a few lovers in my life that I love in different ways, and that’s ok for me right now.”

Sam Morris grew up with three younger sisters, a mom, and dad. He recalls a happy home, although the family was very poor and enjoyed few family outings. Yet, he was taken to see the West End production of Oliver, and after the show, a 7-yearold Sam Morris enthusiastically said to his parents, ‘I want to be in that!’ Two years later, he was.

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as appearing in numerous television and film productions.

He recalls spending a great deal of his spare time in his teens reading fashion magazines, watching art porn, and obsessing over male models. At 18, he began taking pictures and filming himself nude, documenting his emerging sexuality in a conceptualized and romantic way on his own Tumblr page.

Like Tom of Finland in the seventies, Sam Morris had to battle the censors who argued his page depicted overt homosexual acts that were too obscene for mainstream consumption. His page was repeatedly flagged as restricted and taken down. He realized the only way to create the work that he wanted was to build his own website.

He created Sammorris.me and soon after, turned the camera from himself and began photographing nude men. From the beginning, it was important to Morris that the model maintains his own sense of freedom of expression. “I had uncomfortable encounters with photographers. I wanted my set to be a safe space where models could live their porn star fantasies or simply explore a little exhibitionism.”

Morris shoots on the models’ terms; their body = their choice. He does not force sexual encounters on them or on himself. Sex only takes place if it organically feels right and is appropriate in the moment.

“I look at my subject as how somebody would look at their boyfriend from across the bedroom in the morning. That romantic yet vulnerable sensibility that only happens inside your own

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home. I want to capture something that is raw but sensitive. I like the quirks and nervousness that goes alongside getting naked in front of a camera for the first time. I have no rules, and I tell my subjects this every time: nothing you can do is wrong, and you can explore as far as you feel comfortable. I am obsessed with light and vibrancy, and so these play a huge part in my aesthetic.”

Morris doesn’t search for the men that are featured in his films and photos; he waits for models to approach him. “That way, it’s on their terms, and I know what they want from the experience. The moment I start approaching people, the power balance starts to become a little tilted.”

He believes soft erotica is experiencing a second coming in the USA and Europe, the sort that was eradicated during the AIDS crisis and taken over by the commercialized porn industry in the 90s. He’s noticed many creative people posting artistic nudes online with the caption ‘Inspired

by Sam Morris,’ and he couldn’t be happier.

“I intend to continue to push the envelope in different areas, using my eye for beauty and my fearless approach to nudity and sex.”

Like Tom of Finland, he is also establishing himself as a leading brander of the male erotic form. His retail shop on his subscription-based website currently sells Sam Morris-stamped hats, hoodies, and tees will soon be expanding to include spirits, cologne, and various fashion accessories.

Visit Sammorris.me an follow Sam Morris on Instagram @justsammorris.

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Baby It’s Cold Outside Are you one of millions who hates the cold weather once the initial novelty of “winter” wears off? I know I am! Come midJanuary until Spring, the fun in Atlanta tends to slip away, other than the occasional local show here and there. Well, to fix that seasonal funk, I teamed up with some good friends to give you some entertaining ways to spend your cold season days!

Snow is rarely a factor in the Atlanta winter, but when it DOES happen, some people hide away in their homes and completely avoid the roads or anywhere past their yard. The next time the follow Mitzi @itsmitzip South is blessed by Snow Queen Elsa’s icy tantrums, don’t miss the opportunity to go: sledding in Piedmont Park (bring a cardboard box and some booze), to a bar crawl from your apartment (and pick up friends who live close by to join you), or even give your Mario Kart skills a test and drive like a maniac down the highways that have never been prepped for snow. All activities guarantee great fun and potential for imminent death. My friend Joshua Jinglings, of Jinglings Auto Insurance, recommends to turn your car music on loud while driving over the speed limit to get that “James Bond” feeling.

“There’s nothing quite like being the man himself, 007.” Joshua states “And don’t worry about your car, when you’re with Jinglings Auto Insurance, you can rest with all the assurance!”

If being a daredevil, or physically adventurous isn’t your cup of tea, follow my friend, Rosella Carrillo’s advice and host! Rosella has an insatiable appetite for sex and the colder weather only makes it worse. She normally doesn’t mind the occasional trip here-and-there, but when it comes to winter weather conditions, she stays put! You can have all the fun of Atlanta right from your home. Just host an old-fashioned two-way, three-way or orgy. The limit is your own imagination. Have the guests BYOB so you can save some money too!

For the poor soul who has to work in winter condition weather, and calling out sick is not an option, my friend and chronically unemployed entrepreneur, Fester Chester IV, advises to use a recently deceased relative to call out. The deed can be tricky, but Fester further explains: if you haven’t used said relative as an excuse before, have photographic evidence of said parting, and entry-level acting skills, it can be pulled off with relative ease. Just don’t post photos of you enjoying your day off on social media.

Another friend of mine, local trainer and OnlyFans model, Kristof Hindenburger, wants to note that cold weather shouldn’t deter anyone from their fleeting New Year’s resolutions or their upcoming Summer bodies. “If you’re not working out, your diet should mainly consist of eating ass and nothing else.” Kristof suggests.

While we bear through this colder weather together, let’s keep our spirits up, asses loose and tabs open. Spring will be just around the corner! I hope you find some fun inspiration from these suggestions - or come up with ideas yourself.

Yours in bearing winter season

Mitzi Pennington is the self-proclaimed sex symbol and advice-giving-guru alter ego of Mirza Muftic. She came from humble roots of middle America and married into money shorly after dropping out of college. Her late husband’s fortune allows her to travel the world andhave a sense of enlightenment one normally gets from actually working for their money. Mirza has had none of those experiences in his life. On occasion, Mirza will perform as Mitzi around Atlanta. His other interests/day job include film editing, retouching, and stop-motion animation.

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Bars & Clubs

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Retail

MIDTOWN

MARY’S

MIDTOWN

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1287 Glenwood Ave SE

AMSTERDAM

502 Amsterdam Ave. NE

ATLANTA EAGLE

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SISTER LOUISA’S CHURCH

BARKING LEATHER AFTER DARK barkingleather.com

306 Ponce De Leon Ave NE

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CHESHIRE

SWINGING RICHARDS

SOUTHERN NIGHTS VIDEO

1400 Northside Dr NW

ANSLEY

BULLDOGS

Dining

BOY NEXT DOOR MENSWEAR

FRIENDS NEIGHBORHOOD BAR

MIDTOWN

1447 Piedmont Ave NE

736 Ponce De Leon Ave NE

10thandpiedmont.com

atlantaeagle.com

306 Ponce De Leon Ave NE

BLAKE’S ON THE PARK

blakesontheparkatlanta.com 227 10th St NE

893 Peachtree St NE

friendsonponce-atl.com

466 Edgewood Ave SE

swingingrichards.com

10TH & PIEDMONT

MY SISTER’S ROOM

991 Piedmont Ave NE

66 12th St NE

einsteinsatlanta.com

mysistersroom.com

TEN ATLANTA

tenatlanta.com

990 Piedmont Ave NE

THE T

modeltatlanta.com

EINSTEIN’S

1077 Juniper St NE

GCB & PLEASURES

brushstrokesatlanta.com 1510 Piedmont Ave. NE

BARKING LEATHER barkingleather.com

1510 Piedmont Ave Suite A

Fitness

931 Monroe Dr

MIDTOWN

frogsmidtown.com

G’S

CHESHIRE

219 10th St NE

gsmidtown.com

HERETIC

HENRY’S

2069 Cheshire Bridge Road

132 10th St NE

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BJ ROOSTERS

JOE’S ON JUNIPER

2043 Cheshire Bridge Road NE

1049 Juniper St NE

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boynextdoormenswear.com

FROGS CANTINA

465 Boulevard SE

hereticatlanta.com

2205 Cheshire Bridge Rd NE

joesonjuniper.com

URBAN BODY FITNESS urbanbodyfitness.com

500 Amsterdam Ave NE

CHESHIRE GRAVITEE FITNESS graviteeatl.com

2201 Faulkner Rd NE

SEQUEL

LA HACIENDA

Spas/Baths/Adult

TRIPPS

900 Monroe Dr NE

MIDTOWN

CHESHIRE

FLEX SPA

LAS MARGARITAS

76 4th St NW

1086 Alco St NE 1931 Piedmont Circle N

WOOFS

woofsatlanta.com

2425 Piedmont Road NE

lahaciendamidtown.com

lasmargaritasmidtown.com 1842 Cheshire Bridge Rd NE

flexspas.com

CHESHIRE

ANSLEY

ROXX

MIDTOWN MOON

1824 Cheshire Bridge Rd NE

THE DEN

DEKALB

2135 Liddell Drive NE

1492 Piedmont Ave NE

FELIX’S

1510 Piedmont Ave NE

THE HIDEAWAY

LIPS ATLANTA

thedenatlanta.com

atldragshow.com

3011 Buford Hwy NE

1544 Piedmont Ave NE

MIXX

mixxatlanta.com

1492 Piedmont Ave NE

OSCAR’S

oscarsatlanta.com

1510 Piedmont Ave NE

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Dress comfortably and go for a walk

Cook some comfort food

Plan a summer getaway

Host a gettogether Treat yourself to a spa day

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Masquerade Ball

January 18, 2020

Potluch/C Dinners - overed Dish Saturday N 6:30 pm ights

Him: Are you ready to meet up?

Me: Yas, kween!

Text your Peach Pits to 540-30-PEACH, or e-mail mikkel@PeachATL.com

Him: See you there in 30?

If a teacher ever wrote “a pleasure to have in class” on any of your report cards, you’re gay now. Sorry, I don’t make the rules

Me: Yas, Mama. Werk!

Him: You have been watching Drag Race reruns, haven’t you?

Let your weird light shine bright so the other weirdos know where to find you

A new you? Yeah, I see just the same old bag of tricks!

Me: Yes, can you tell?

I always find it weird to chill with my dog after he watched me have sex with someone…

My kink? It’s being right all the time, which is why I’m always turned on

Imagine burning sage and you pass out because you’re the negative energy

My day starts backwards …. I wake up tired and go to bed wide awake!

ASKING FOR A FRIEND Is buttcheeks one word?

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CANCER (Jun. 21 - Jul. 22) Starting new projects may prove to be a challenge today, as people with other ideas stand in your way.

Your first reaction may be to retreat, but that would be giving up, something that goes against your nature. Instead, find a like-minded pal who supports your views and ideas and tag-team your adversaries.

Brilliant minds often think alike and together, the two of you can get the job done.

LEO (Jul. 23 - Aug. 22) You’ve met someone who is kind and supportive, and who enjoys being in the company of your larger-than-life personality. Your friends agree that you two seem made for each other, so what are you waiting for? You have no problem taking the lead, so ask him out on a date. Take it slow, but let him know how you feel about him. He will love seeing the gentle side of the mighty lion.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18)

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sep. 22)

That new guy in your building seems like a loner, not the type of person an ebullient guy like you would associate with. Still, there’s something fascinating about him. If you want to meet him, you will have to break the ice. There are many ways to do that, and some don’t involve stalking. Just knock on his door, and welcome him to the neighborhood. He may surprise you by inviting you in.

You’ve been hanging with the beautiful people lately, and you’re on the A-list for all the big social events. You love being part of the glitterati, but even you have to admit there’s something shallow about that scene. Your old friends have been wondering where you’ve been. Go back to them today.

They’ll have a way of reminding you of who you really are.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20)

LIBRA (Sep. 23 - Oct. 22)

A down-on-his-luck friend may owe you sum of money you know he can’t pay back. You could find ways for him to repay you short of making him your personal manservant. Still, this is putting a strain on your friendship. Be a humanitarian today, and absolve him of his debt. Never make money more important than the people in your life.

Today will be a great day to get out of the house or office, and breathe in the fresh air. Being in stagnant environments can have an oppressive effect on your mind and soul. So go for a brisk walk, or open the windows as you go on a long drive. You’ll be amazed how your energies will be revived when you let a little cool, clean water flow into that brackish pool.

ARIES (Mar. 21 - Apr. 19)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21)

You won’t take no for an answer, and your charming personality always has people saying yes. You usually get what you want, but are you using people for your own gain? Curb the selfishness today, and give back. As hard as it is to believe, it’s not all about you.

You’ve been pursuing that guy for some time now, and he’s proving to be quite elusive. Normally, you love the challenge of the chase, but your patience is wearing thin. Asking yourself the tough questions today may give you a new realization, and open you to some cold truths. Maybe he’s just not that into you.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21)

We’re living in a material world, and today you are a material girl. Your many possessions give you a strong sense of security -- add to them today by buying classy, tasteful things for the home. Persian rugs and Ming vases may be out of your price range, and you don’t have to travel to Bali for that bamboo room divider. Unearth treasures in you own backyard.

Your two key words for today should be fun and laughter. And nothing’s more fun than laughing. So take in a comedy club, watch your favorite episode of The Simpsons or read the latest book from David Sedaris. Best yet, learn to laugh at yourself. As a wise writer once said, he who laughs, lasts.

GEMINI (May 21 - Jun. 20)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19)

Everything, and everybody, has two faces today and you’re not sure which one is real. There are shadows lurking behind every corner, so be careful with the people you deal with today. Think clearly and be sure of yourself. Don’t add to the confusion by wearing a mask of your own.

You’ve been so focused on work lately that you’ve been ignoring the friends who’ve been trying to reach you. Your dedication to your job is admirable, but you know what they say about all work and no play. Screw the overtime and reconnect with friends instead today. Having fun in your social life will rejuvenate your work life.

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By Mikkel Hyldebrandt Trouble in the love department? With sex? Or just people in general? Send us your queries, questions, and problems, and you’ll get answers served straight up and with a little ice.

My partner and I have been together for over ten years, and we have a really great, deep, and fulfilling bond. But even though we have sex more or less frequently, I do want to change the way we have sex: We always do quickies right before work, bed, or going somewhere. It’s like we only fulfill the need to get off and neglect the intimate aspect of it altogether. Sex is never the main attraction but an intermission, if that makes sense. I still get very turned on by my partner, and I want the intimacy back with him, but how?

Sincerely Inti-Mating

Dear Inti-Mating Sex is a physical need and release, but when it reaches ultimate levels, it is about the intimate connection you can achieve with a partner. It seems like you have had that type of connection in the past, and now it’s turned into something different – so of course, it’s frustrating if you feel that sex between you is not that intimate anymore. You need to ask your partner if he has noticed the switch and if he’d like to get the close connection back. That’ll also give you an excellent opportunity to let him know that you miss him, intimately. Next, instead of having unplanned, sporadic quickies, plan a romantic, sexy night where you take time to be all about each other. You don’t necessarily have to have sex, but after courting each other all night long, that may end up being the outcome. Another little exercise that builds an erotic, intimate connection is to lie next to each without touching and revealing a sexual fantasy to each other.

Keeping it entirely in the head – at least for a while – helps to switch the sexual connection from the merely physical to an all-body experience. Quickies are fun, but not nearly as fulfilling as sex with an added aspect of intimacy.

So awkward! Hear me out: I went on a date with a guy, and it was a really good first date: great convo, lots of flirting, and a good sexual vibe. And the night ended with some kissing but nothing more, and I wanted to see him again.

But afterward, I was horny, so I went home and changed, and then I went to a sex club for some cruising – and I bump into my date! We were both so stunned, and it was so awkward that we ended up just ignoring and avoiding each other. So I finished my business and got out!

So, now I’m embarrassed about the whole thing – bumping into him, ignoring him, hooking up with someone else, and then scurrying out – and I just don’t know what to do! I actually really like him, but is this a date breaker?

Sincerely Compromised Cruiser

Dear Compromised Cruiser Honestly, the prospects for a second date aren’t good. Think about it; you went along on this cute and innocent date when you could have made an even better connection if you had (both!) disclosed your true desires because you have some of the same kinks. Then there’s the whole ignoring each other thing … that’s like missing the second window of opportunity, but instead, you both chose to ignore the fact that you were at the same spot to get off. Finally, you both signaled that you were only there to get your rocks off, and you didn’t do it with each other. AND then you scurried off! So no, chances aren’t good! There is a last little window of opportunity if you write to him and simply say, ‘Well, that was awkward’! Maybe, just maybe, there’s a slight chance that you can start over with a good laugh at how silly and insecure you both were and take this beyond an innocent dating game next time. Who knows, it might be the love story of the century with a helluva ‘how we met’ story!

NEED ANSWERS? REACH OUT TO US, AND YOU WILL GET THEM! SEND YOUR BURNING QUESTIONS TO OUR EDITOR AT MIKKEL@PEACHATL.COM.

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