Rachel Thompson is a British author and journalist with over a decade of experience writing about sex, relationships, dating culture, sexual violence, and women’s rights.

She is the author of The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World, published by Vintage, Penguin Random House, in 2025. The Love Fix is an investigation into how the internet shapes our expectations, self-esteem, and search for intimacy as we date online and in-person.

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 Vintage (Penguin Random House) in August 2021. Stylist magazine called Rough "2021's most important book about sex".

Rachel is the Features Editor at Mashable, where she manages the sex and relationships section. She is a leading sex and relationships writer in the UK and she has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, The i Paper, ELLE, CNN, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel is an experienced and confident public speaker and broadcaster who has appeared on BBC Woman’s Hour and BBC Radio 4 The World At One, in addition to speaking on panels at Bumble events, delivering talks in bookshops and schools.