https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/aella-internet-sex-researcher/681813/
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"The Internet’s Favorite Sex Anthropologist

How Aella went from selling sex to studying it
By Helen Lewis
February 24, 2025, 9:30 AM ET


ver the course of 2024, Aella cried on 71 different days, showered on
24, and took ketamine on 14. We know this because she meticulously
gathers and posts information about people’s personal, emotional, and
sexual lives—including her own. The crying number was unusually high,
she says, because of a bad breakup. For many fans, the more boggling
statistic was that last year, she had sex on only 41 days, but on one of
those days, she had sex with nearly 40 people. We’ll come back to that.

After years of following Aella’s online outrages and unexpected
insights, I wanted to meet her for myself—to understand her unusual occupation as a cam girl turned sex researcher, and to hear her
perspective on what the internet has done to human sexuality. ... ================================================

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