Tag: sex

Edging, or extending the time leading up to an orgasm, is almost a character of its own in Normal People, Run, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It also has a lot to teach us about sexuality and consent.

Ella Dawson learns about the perils of break-up sex the hard way.

Struggling with the world’s, and his own, homophobia, one queer young man searches for intimacy in the world of internet porn.

Deenie Hartzog-Mislock confronts a lifetime of body image trauma when her marriage turns south and sexless.

Faylita Hicks considers what it means to be a Black nonbinary activist in the age of Trump — and questions how the social justice movement has changed the way they have sex.

Nicole Walker contemplates the nature of migration, and realizes there are two places you can never escape: the planet and your own head.

When her 13-year-old daughter finds love a stone’s throw away, Lisa A. Phillips confronts the inevitability of first heartbreak.

A guide in Puerto Rico inadvertently leads Suzanne Roberts to stop collecting men as if they were souvenirs.

Diane Shipley confronts her history of sexual dysfunction and wonders who decides what ‘normal’ is, anyway.

Darcey Steinke says that most menopause memoirs “end with this come-to-Jesus moment of, ‘Then I accepted hormones.’ I’m not against it, but … I wanted to hear what it’s like for other women.”

There are the marks lovers leave on trees and rocks, and the marks lovers leave on each other.

Nancy Jainchill recalls a ’70s sexcapade that helped her make (one month’s) rent, and began her exploration into women’s pleasure and sexual parity.

A BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.

How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.

Sarah Kasbeer reflects on a history of hookups — and why they left her cold.

In the aftermath of rape, Alison Kinney discovers that a new lover who helps you to heal can just as easily betray you.

Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.

TL;DR: tech titans have a lot of sex and drug parties at which they disrupt conventional morality by… replicating conventional sexist, heteronormative behaviors. 

We are finally taking sexual harassment and abuse seriously. Now what?

Laurie Penny wants a new conversation about women, men, consent, desire, and autonomy.

“I’ll never go back to dating a real woman again — no matter what happens.”

Michael Thevis built a lucrative pornography empire in the 1970s only to spend the rest of his life in prison.

In The Walrus, Natalie Zina Waschots describes her time doing search-engine optimization for a Toronto pornography curator.

Jeff Sharlet spends a day with the sexually pure teens of Battlecry Honor Academy, and learns that renouncing your sins doesn’t mean redacting their memories.

Ms. Lewinsky was quickly cast by the media as a “little tart,” as The Wall Street Journal put it. The New York Post nicknamed her the “Portly Pepperpot.” She was described by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times as “ditsy” and “predatory.” And other women — self-proclaimed feminists — piled on. “My dental hygienist […]

One of the ways the site reduced danger for workers was by making it easier for them to weed out bad dates, from poor tippers to full-on abusive creeps. Providers could choose to meet only customers who were well known and well liked on RedBook’s forums, and some workers even required references from other escorts on the site before taking on a new client.

Sex is difficult to write about because it’s just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information. If you start saying “the curve of . . .” you soon sound like a gynecologist.

Here are five stories born of adultery. Read about technological advancements for philanderers and their cuckolds, personal perspectives from the cheater and the cheatee, a forbidden lust-fueled crime story, and a piece on how adultery became bedfellows with American popular culture and music—back in 1909. 1. “The Cuckold” (James Harms, Guernica, February 17, 2014) “The cuckold […]

Young women in college have joked for decades about “working their way through school” via pornography. And as with every tired old joke, there’s some truth behind it. The Duke Chronicle profiled a first-year student named “Lauren,” a woman who identifies as a feminist, libertarian, and porn star as “Aurora.” The student who wrote the […]

Noga Arikha | Lapham’s Quarterly | 2009 | 13 minutes (3,200 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) I. In 1727, a lady named Helen Morrison placed a personal advertisement in the Manchester Weekly Journal. It was possibly the first time a newspaper was ever used for such a purpose. As it happens, Morrison was […]