With all the stress and intensity of the last few months, it makes sense that we’d seek love and connection to both soothe and stimulate us. Read on to find out what your love life has in store for you in July.

We here at Bedsider love any chance we can get to celebrate freedom in all its many forms. So we’re super excited that today is Juneteenth! If you’re new to this holiday, no worries—this is literally the perfect day to learn all about it and celebrate it for the first time.

Y’all know we love an aphrodisiac. A new sex toy. A well-timed sext. So we thought we’d share our most recent sexy obsessions with you. Trust us, these work every time.

For our readers in the black community, we want to acknowledge that this has been an exhausting, frustrating, and enraging past couple of weeks. We stand with you, we love you, and right now we need to have a serious discussion with white people, so if you want to tune out here, we support you.

So here we go. Most of us know by now that jumping on the bandwagon of a cause, using the hashtag once, and not backing it up with any genuine action is not just unhelpful, it’s offensive. If you’re not sure why or whether you’ve been doing that, this post will explain it—start there. When you’re ready for next steps, we’ve compiled some resources for you.