Alix Fox 🦊

This week, @thetherapycrouchpodcast became The Therapy Crotch! I joined @crouchy and @abbeyclancy as their Shagony Aunt, answering listener questions about relationships, intimacy and bedroom-based dilemmas. In our first episode (🔗 in bio & on @spotify , @applepodcasts , @youtube & the usual places), the chit-chat went all over the place, from discussing why fantasy creature adult toys are seeing a boom in popularity (sales of octopus tentacle probes, silicone monster wangs and vibrating unicorn horns at @lovehoneyofficial are up 244% this year), to brainstorming ways to put things right if you’ve been fibbing to your partner for a long time about how satisfied you are with your love life. Now the audience know a little more about me, I’ll be back to give focused advice on their problems and queries. Got something you’re wondering or worrying about? Email [email protected] and I may well tackle your issue on the show. Don’t worry: we’ll keep your details totally private if you need. Fancy something new to play with between the sheets? I’ve got a big box of goodies you can WIN, including: ⭐️A waterproof, rechargeable luxury coral-orange G-spot vibe from @bednerdz worth £49.99 ⭐️A soft silicone powder-pink Beauty Vibe from @sodivine_uk worth £29.99 - cleverly shaped to look like a beauty blender, for ultra-discreet fun on the go ⭐️So Divine tingly Org&sm Gel worth £9.99 ⭐️Two egg-shaped stimulator sleeves for him, from Japanese brand @tenga_global worth £6 each ⭐️Water-based lubricant from @howlworldwide worth £12 - infused with CBD to aid relaxation and enhance sensation The whole bundle clocks in at over £110, but I’m giving it away FREE 🎉 To enter: ➡️Follow me here on Instagram ➡️Comment I WANT TO WIN FOX’S BOX below A winner will be drawn at 6pm on 31st March. 💘

My new @guardian guide to the best "massagers" on the market is currently the most read article on the site, trumping Tr*mp and merking Musk. I guess we all need some sweet relief... Pleasure can be a form of resistance and activism. Vive la powerful motor-driven rev-istance! 😉 🔗 in bio if you'd like to find out which toy has "remained so high up in expert rankings that by this stage it might have altitude sickness"; what's "not for the faint of heart (or parts), but is so powerful that it can conjure up an org&sm through thick jeans, and probably also through walls"; and what "makes a noise like a car tyre inflator while it’s pumping up, and sounds like your v&gina is sighing mournfully as it deflates."

Due to personal reasons connected to a bereavement, I’ve made the difficult yet sensible decision to defer my place in the London Marathon to 2027. Running is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: I want to bring my best energy and my healthiest self to it, do my training justice, and give those miles and the crowds everything I’ve got. In many ways, this is good news, as I’ve set an ambitious target to raise DOUBLE the money for @positiveeast HIV charity – which means more prizes to win and fun fundraising events for you all over the next year! Once I’m out from under the shadows of my current situation, I’ll also be posting more about my training techniques. I love exercise best when it feels playful and gamified, not painful and gruelling, so if you have your own ambitions to get joyfully moving, my tips could help you sweat with a smile. I’m enormously grateful to the team at Positive East for their compassion and support. They’ve been unequivocally kind to me, and I feel incredibly thankful to get another shot at this dream in 2027. The mighty £1.5k already raised is safely with the charity. All raffle entries so far will of course be honoured – I’ll post updates on raffle plans and all the goodies up for grabs in coming weeks, so we can keep that fundraising rolling! Big love, from a human doing her best in the face of the worst, who is still strapping on her bouncy shoes and moving forwards. Xxx

With geo-politics being as tumultuous and overwhelming as it currently is I find it useful to focus on some of the most incredible change-makers I am lucky to call my friends to give me hope. Here's what a few of these legends in the @actup_london activist community are up to right now. 1. Here's @diagurto whose (nearly) sold-out show 'El Gran Varón (WIP) is on this Wednesday 4th March at @camdenpeoplestheatre with @e.archives.hiv and @lacomuna.colectivo . It is a politically urgent performance blending testimonies, humour, and archives to confront HIV stigma, colonial legacies and institutional violence among Latin American migrants in Europe. Get your tickets @camdenpeoplestheatre 2. Here's @alixfox one of the most vivacious and firecracking, lovely and dedicated HIV advocates I know (who co-hosted our last World AIDS Day show with the equally fabulous @thisisalanturk ) who is running the marathon and has launched a crowdfunder to raise money for @positiveeast - please support it via @alixfox linktree in her bio. 3. Garry Brough's @hivthemorningafter podcast has just been released! It is hosted by Emmy-Award winning documentary producer @londonbornqueer . Garry was diagnosed with HIV at 23, newly sober, he was given five years to live. He went on to outlive an AIDS diagnosis, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and his own conviction that nobody would ever love him again. In the 25 years since, he's quietly become one of the architects of HIV peer support in this country. Listen to this captivating conversation @hivthemorningafter about home, alcohol addiction, belonging and survival. I hope these all give you a bit of hope too.

✨DONATE TO MY CHARITY LONDON MARATHON RUN TO WIN INCREDIBLE RAFFLE PRIZES!✨ There are just over two months to go to the @londonmarathon & I'm a quarter of the way to hitting my fundraising target for @positiveeast HIV charity...so to encourage you to dig deep & donate, I'm running an amazing raffle! New prizes will be added regularly. To kick off, luxury pleasure jewellery company @lovecrave have given me a sophisticated, understated & intensely covetable VESPER 2 vibrator necklace - the £185 rose gold version as stocked by @cocodemeruk was featured in my latest @guardian gift guide. Donation 🔗 is at the top of my bio. 🎟️Every £5 you donate gets you 1 raffle entry 🎟️Donate £50 = get 11 entries 🎟️Donate £100 = get 23 entries Send a screengrab of your donation to me at [email protected] Already donated? Don't worry - I'll allocate you raffle entries to the value of your existing donation. My training’s going well! I ran my first Half Marathon last weekend & finished grinning from ear to ear. I'm not fast, but I have stamina, and I BRING GOOD VIBES. Seen those videos of baby goats bouncing along jubilantly? I may not be the GOAT in terms of speed, but I have boingy baby goat joy that propels me forward! 🐐Xx DONATE VIA LINK OR SCREENSHOT THIS POST & COPY THIS: /pf/alix-fox

Hello slobbergoblins! Hope this post finds you feeling the answer to this cryptic crossword clue: A not-so-low dwarf [5 letters]. I’ve written a guide to the sexiest #ValentinesGifts for @guardian – as ever, packed with tips, education and entertainment to counter the consumerism! ♥️ 🔗 in bio. Sometimes, my jokes are too saucy or my suggestions too steamy to make the final Editor’s cut, so here I’m sharing some of my writing that DIDN’T get published… ❓What’s the best Valentine’s, Galentine’s or Palentine’s present you’ve ever received, or given? Xx

🎓FIRST DAY AT BIG SCHOOL🎓 It’s #HIVTestingWeek – an apt moment for me to begin my PhD at @ucl @ucldocschool Institute of Global Health, as my research centres on designing international public resources to help people get answers to their questions about #HIV preventative medications. UCL’s sprawling campuses are vast, and so labyrinthine that Jareth the Goblin King would approve of their architecture. The ivory towers of academia haven’t felt at all like “an ‘orrible castle”, though – everyone has been so welcoming. I am THRILLED to be here. Absolutely fizzing. Bring it all on. #doctorate #doctoratestudent #ucl

Oi oi saveloys! Hope you’re feeling more spritely than an elf drinking a can of fizzy lemon and lime soda.🧚🍋🍋‍🟩🥤 I’d love to invite you along to a 🆓FREE INSTAGRAM LIVE session I’m holding this 🗓️Saturday 7th February at ⏰9pm GMT (1pm PST, 4pm EST). Come have a natter ‘n’ chatter with me!  It’ll be a fun, thought-provoking, info-packed, ohhhhhh-I-didn’t-know-that half-hour chat all about WHAT’S NEXT IN S/X TECH with @missbalmain of @senson_official – a brand new, groundbreaking toy that’s about to launch this month, that interacts with audio erotica in ways intended to make you feel you’re truly inside the scenes and stories, and that the characters are right there inside you… 👀🥵   We’ll be talking about some of the new types of tech that might be about to enter our bedrooms, and how fresh inventions aim to solve old challenges – plus where they might bring issues of their own.   One long-standing but still pertinent problem we’ll be brainstorming is how LOUD a lot of vibes are. If you want POWER, that generally comes with NOISE, and some wands I’ve sampled sound like Jason Vorhees revving his chainsaw whilst simultaneously mowing the lawn and blending a smoothie.😆 ❓Is vibratorrrrrr volume something you worry about? Do you give no fuxx if someone can hear you going at it with your rabbit, or do you fret about disturbing family/flatmates/neighbours? Another theme we’ll be nattering about is the increasing use of AI in the adult product industry. Artificial intelligence holds enormous promise for introducing brand new, impressively immersive pleasure experiences, and also has the capacity to collect and analyse data pertaining to intimate health. But how do we ensure it’s safe – both in terms of the security of private information; individual users’ psychological wellbeing when interacting with digital lovers; and the potential wider impacts on society of humans developing ever deeper relationships with machines?🤖🦾 ❓Any s/x tech-related questions you’d like me to answer in the chat? Comment below or DM me, blossombuds. 💋   #AI #tech #sextech #valentinesday

Hello gungebags! I hope your week is already more grand than the Budapest Hotel, a grand piano and Grandmaster Flash combined. 💖 I’m in @closeronline today (a magazine I presume is named after the Nine Inch Nails track, right? 👀) giving advice on common love life challenges. If you have a partner but your intimate time together is going through a rough patch at the mo for whatever reason – maybe you’re so busy or exhausted that sauciness is taking a back seat, or perhaps illness, stress, the demands of children, grief, peri/menopause or body changes are having a negative impact – then maybe an analogy I heard recently that really chimed with me will resonate for you too… In 📚Come Together: The Science (and Art) of Creating Lasting S3xual Connections📚 the fabulous @enagoski invites us to imagine our s3x lives as shared gardens: it’s normal for them to go through seasons of blooming or withering; to be influenced by life’s weather; or to grow weeds if they’re neglected. They thrive best when they’re nurtured. And they require some deep digging, both in terms of discussing our emotions, and putting in effort to make eroticism flourish. I wish you flowers – and if they can’t blossom right this second, or your shared garden needs tending before they can burst forth, may your next Springtime come soon. ♥️💐🌸🌻🌼🌺🌷🌹

Yo snowblowers! Hope your festive holiday is already infused with more enduring sweetness than an everlasting gobstopper, and is looking more delicious than Willy Wonka's mood board. I'm giving my favourite present of all by donating blood. I achieved Bronze Donor status tonight, AND the @givebloodnhs team in Stratford gave me a special box of mince pies along with my usual post-sesh snack, so I'm feeling ultra-Christmassy! I whacked a starry filter on these snaps to try and make them more seasonal, but really, what could be more joyful than helping other humans who need a hand from your arm?! In case you're wondering: if you've had a flu vaccination, it's totally fine to donate - you can even give the very same day if you're feeling OK. Excuse the Hello Kitty spot sticker. That beast was casting a shadow longer than Stonehenge, there was no concealing it! 😆 #giveblood #donateblood #blooddonor ❤️🩸

I can’t tell you how great it is to share this mind-blowingly fabulous news right before Christmas: ⭐️I have been awarded a fully funded PhD studentship, to become Dr Fox!⭐️ I’m joining a truly astounding world-class team of supervising professors at the Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne & Sexually Transmitted Diseases at UCL, and also collaborating with experts in medicine and AI at the University of Liverpool, to undertake a three-year project in which I will help investigate and design resources to aid the public in making safe, informed, empowered choices for themselves about HIV prevention drugs (PrEP), and increase access for underserved communities and individuals internationally. The project will include the development of a chatbot, which will offer ways for people to get solid advice who don’t feel confident about approaching their GP – for example, if they’re a trans person sourcing HRT underground, someone taking recreational drugs, or a queer person who does not feel able to be out. I’ll be paying special attention to the needs of women, elders, disabled populations, and considerations that arise in different cultural groups, in isolated or high risk circumstances, and for people on low incomes. I shall be continuing my work as a writer, creative and broadcaster to some extent, not least because some of these platforms will help me reach the people with lived experience who I want to invite to collaborate with me: this project has co-creation baked all the way through it. I believe that to successfully and respectfully design for set audiences, they need to be in the room as equals from the word go. “NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US”. Media can be heartbreakingly ephemeral: you write an article or make a show that has impact for a moment, but you rarely get the chance to embed yourself within a change-making project for years, and refine it so it does maximum, lasting good for the world. I am entering 2026 with a true sense of purpose and joy.

“43% of women faked it with a male partner" Script consultant for Netflix's Sex Education Alix Fox joins Jennifer Zamparelli on Just Between Us to talk about the "orgasm gap"