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Katie Baskerville
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SEX & RELATIONSHIPS, HEALTH & LIFESTYLE

I’m a two-time award-nominated freelance investigative features journalist based in Bristol UK. I cover sex, health and lifestyle across intersections of consent, digital safety, fertility, discrimination, pleasure, underreported gynaecological conditions, LGBT+ and women’s rights, class and identity. 

I regularly contribute to HuffPost’s lifestyle desk, and have produced in-depth explainers for Mashable’s Come Again? series, but you can find my other bylines in British Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health Magazine, HuffPost, Refinery29 and more. And, listen to me on BBC Radio Bristol (from time to time), on Rosie Turner’s Girlfriend Material Podcast and Fanny Beckman’s Women of My Generation podcast.

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Publications Katie Baskerville has worked with including Vogue Glamour HuffPost Metro Bustle
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Katie Baskerville poses in front of her art wall of feminist posters and framed work in Cosmopolitan

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As featured in British Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist Magazine, Refinery29, The Metro, Women’s Health Magazine, HuffPost, Mashable, Insider, The Times, Glorious Sport and Bustle.

Editors! Need someone to cover stories on sex, health and lifestyle? Book me for shift work or commission me for one-off pieces on: hello@katiebaskerville.com 

HuffPost – We Survived Cuffing Season. Here’s How We Did It. 

HuffPost – An Expert Guide To Buying Your First Sex Toy

HuffPost – I watched porn in a room full of people. Here’s what I learnt.

HuffPost – We Survived Cuffing Season. Here’s How We Did It

HuffPost – What Happens When Victims Are Bombarded With Sexual Assault News

HuffPost – So, what exactly is a false rape allegation?

HuffPost – Keeping An Ex’s Nudes Is Not Illegal. But Should It Be?

Mashable –  Can watching ethical porn improve sexual body image?

Mashable – How problematic is bi porn?

Mashable – What do our sex dreams mean?

Mashable – Does penis size actually matter?

Mashable – My partner tested positive for an STI but I didn’t, why?

Mashable – Everything you need to know about foot fetishes

Mashable – Everything you need to know about vaginal discharge

Killing Kittens – The best non-gendered sex toys on the market

Glorious Sport – Pole dancing’s heritage deserves to be respected, not sanitised.

Killing Kittens – How my PCOS affects my sex life

The Metro – I’ll never let partners shame me into not masturbating ever again

Cosmopolitan – Poolside recovery, cut prices and horrific complications? Inside Turkey’s plastic surgery boom

HuffPost – Is slut shaming to blame for the rise in breast reduction surgery?

HuffPost – 3 Actions To Take Now If You’re Too Worried To Go To Work

Mashable – We’re having less sex. What does that mean for public health?

Bustle – I tried five at-home hormone testing kits. Here’s what I learnt

Glorious Sport – Do we need a detox from diet culture? 

Women’s Health Magazine – Should you be hormone

Stylist Magazine – How I learnt to exercise with PCOS

HuffPost – We Can’t Afford To Have Kids – And No, Avocado On Toast Isn’t What Got Us Here

Glamour – I went to an online fertility retreat. Here’s what happened

Glamour – The agony and joy of watching your friends fall pregnant, when you can’t

Stylist Magazine – Can a lifelong planner learn to be spontaneous in a week?

HuffPost – Delulu – A fun little trend or an ableist slur?

British Vogue – If I’m disabled, why can’t I say it?

Refinery29 – I have a chronic illness, but online I’m accused of faking it

Mashable – Beyond the Easter eggs, Miley Cyrus’ flowers tells us to love ourselves harder

Stylist Magazine – Can a lifelong planner learn to be spontaneous in a week?

Aurelia – Breaking up with the music I love

The Times – How I learnt to fight back against landlords’ unfair fines

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I’m always keen on stories that promote healthy conversations on sex education, consent, body image and pleasure. But please, for the love of God, do not get in touch with stories promoting diet culture, TERF fuel or anything that could cause harm to marginalised communities. 

Any inappropriate material, like unsolicited dick picks, will be reported to the correct authorities.