Rachel Barker

Around Aotearoa

How Long Until the Majority of Voters Are Gen Y and Gen Z?

And will it make a difference to Aotearoa’s political outlook?
Rachel Barker
5.1.24
Around Aotearoa

What Can’t You Call Your Kid in Aotearoa?

Yes, someone in NZ actually tried to call their kid “Anal.”
Rachel Barker
5.1.24
Around Aotearoa

New Zealanders Tell Us The Weirdest Things They Were Taught as "Sex Education"

"That you can bite a foreskin off… As a kinky thing.”
Rachel Barker
4.19.24
NEW ZEALAND

Ketamine is Making You Piss Yourself and it Could Get Much Worse

More good news!
Rachel Barker
4.12.24
Around Aotearoa

Stop Saying You’re 'Broke' When You’re Not

Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's an intentionally constructed persona.
Rachel Barker
4.3.24
NEW ZEALAND

The New Zealand Hunters Who Eat the Raw Heart of Their Kill

“I didn’t think they were actually gonna make me do it."
Rachel Barker
3.18.24
Around Aotearoa

I Went to a Fetish Party and Left Feeling Just a Bit Sad

Excited as I may have been for baby’s-first-sex-party, my little kinkster heart was still left unsatisfied. 
Rachel Barker
2.19.24
Sex

Vibe Rater: A Vibrator Named Tim

Seeking out a new slippery friend would be far from my first rodeo when it came to sex toys, but high-end products haven’t exactly been my bread and butter. 
Rachel Barker
12.21.23
Sex

Vibe Rater: What It’s Like to Fuck a Sex Doll

Join me for one night in heaven with a five-foot-nothing, PVC God. 
Rachel Barker
12.21.23
Sex

How to Fuck 101: Sex Workers Give Their Fundamental Sex Advice

It’s all well and good hearing “confidence is key," but sometimes you need some straightforward tips on how to have good sex.
Rachel Barker
12.21.23
VICEAU Magazine

A Legacy of Raranga: The Māori Craft of Flax Weaving

There’s certain things that you need to be able to do before you can even think of making your own kete whiri.
Rachel Barker
12.18.23
Drugs

Reflecting on the Life Ed Bus: Did Harold Keep Us Off The Hard Stuff?

The friendly Giraffe laboured the horrors of hard drugs, but do New Zealand’s young people feel those messages made a difference in the long run? 
Rachel Barker
12.15.23
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