Rachel Thompson

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Rachel Thompson
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Rachel Thompson is a British author and journalist specialising in sex, dating, and relationships. Her first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Square Peg (Vintage) in August 2021. Stylist magazine called Rough "2021's most important book about sex". Rachel is the Features Editor at Mashable. She is a leading sex and relationships writer in the UK and has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, British Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The Telegraph, CNN, HuffPost, and many more. Her second book, The Love Fix, is out with Square Peg in 2025. 

Books by Rachel Thompson

Rough. How Violence Has Found its Way into the Bedroom and What We Can Do About it Rough. How Violence Has Found its Way into the Bedroom and What We Can Do About it