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At 37, I have about 25,000 eggs left. I'm too young to start panicking, too old to relax.

Elizabeth Cauvel

Good Eggs

“Society doesn’t stop at kink’s door. The structures and histories that we’re playing with are the..

Tangled Up In ‘Blue’: Meet The Founder Of Oakland’s Rope Bondage Studio

I'm close to falling asleep when I feel someone slide into my bed and breathe. There's no one there.

bump in the night

Sexual Assault Made Sleep A Stranger

I‘ll just blurt it out before I lose my nerve. I smell.

the truth hurts

The Strange And Elusive Science Of Smell And Sex

I took the opportunity to consider the mattress as a skeleton key to phases of intimacy.

Romancing The Mattress, Or, Our Longstanding Obsession With Beds

Collecting the voices of many who share similar experiences into a single tome gives each...

‘Written On The Body’: An Anthology Of Sexual Assault Survivor Stories

On the bodily experience of crisis and the importance of cognitive dissonance.

The Magic Of The Lizard Self

I was practically invisible until I got my braces off then poof, instant B.D.E. (Big dick energy).

PULP IT LIKE IT'S HOT: My Elementary School Crush Popped My Cherry

We convinced ourselves we have to be people we weren't.

Rebecca Oleander

In The Absence Of Sex

In the grand grief-scape of my heart, there’s comfort in knowing there’s science behind death.

Going Going Gone

On The Finite Nature Of Humans

Unstigmatize Yourself

Vanessa Carlisle

How to Support Sex Workers

Being born assigned female at birth (AFAB) means a lot of things for a lot of people, but most...

Jessi Quinn Alperin

For/Men/Who Bleed

Abortion rights are now under threat in Germany by the same far-right forces that have laid siege...

The Nazi Law Being Weaponized By Far-Right Extremists

The answer to complicated conversations on rape, celebrity, and blackness in America is not to...

Complicated Legends

Why We Have To Keep Talking About Kobe

Imagine you’re about to put your penis into a vagina you’re fairly familiar with. You know its...

Liz Christman (E.E.W. Christman)

It's a bird, it's a plane!

PULP IT LIKE IT’S HOT: The Flying NuvaRing

The Y is an unlikely place to ponder one’s relationship to their body—to all bodies—but here I am.

grin and bare it

The Critical Importance Of Being Naked In Public

My anger always woke up before the alarm. She ran five miles, and then she ran eight. She skipped...

My Anger Saw an Angel Once

How Misogyny Invades Kink Art

On Netflix’s ‘Bonding’

Being visible, taking up space — being free in yourself and body — is often met with a systematic...

Nico Grelli (sometimes Pier Valentino)

A Genderqueer Homage To Italian Photographer Tina Modotti

“you don’t have the right to choose. The state will choose for you.”

What It Actually Means to be pro-choice

Audio stimulation gets people tuned into their bodies at a time when we’re very much in our heads.

Aurel Erotica During Social Isolation

How do you prepare for the expiration of a dream?

Through The Looking-App: The Shattered Fantasy Of Tinder

A comic of honest, awkward anecdotes

Third Time Lucky

Rowena Sheehan, "Uncomfortable Nuggets of Sex Talk"

Why the radical charity on the high seas is still vital and needs our support.

Josie Klakstrom

The Enduring Importance of 'The Abortion Boat'

Recognizing toxicity and abuse and saving yourself is an act that truly has no gender.

Christina Quintana (CQ)

Genderfication: Dangerous Collaborations

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HankyCode

selfhood and identity

Ethical non-monogamy, and Indian queerness

Breaking Free In A Country Of Caged Desires

Not all angels wear white. Some wear leopard print and tell you dick jokes.

Stephanie Lechner

grandma knows best

Everything I learned About Feeling Sexy, I Learned From Nanny

If I didn’t want sex then I supposed I was broken, and in a very unique way.

follow the yellow brick road?

Growing Up A Pop Culture Kid And The Absence Of The Asexual Experience

As a girl, I imagined the fruit of the Virgin Mary’s womb as a bunch of red grapes.

The Female Sex, A Motif

When I was 11, an uncle came to stay with us.

Freezebreathing

I Didn’t Know Love, What Was It Supposed To Feel Like?

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict got a scant paragraph. Us gay folks didn't even get that much.

jewel in a fake news crown

The Abraham Accords Takes Sanctioned Homophobia To The Next Level

Sasha Torchinsky

Dear Ellen: How Hard Candy Taught Me About Consent

Reimagining Women’s Visibility At Folsom, America’s Largest BDSM Festival

Leather Dykes In Space

The bathroom is both the birthright and torment of queer people everywhere.

someone's in here

The Bathroom is Loaded AF For Queer People

I was put on medication that would exacerbate my symptom use, and give me the energy to push...

DoubleStandards

When Black Women ‘Weigh Too Much’ To Have An Eating Disorder

We convinced ourselves we have to be people we weren't.

Rebecca Oleander

In The Absence Of Sex

Fighting bi-erasure gets even trickier once you’ve given birth.

Bisexuality And Unexpected Pregnancy

How family estrangement broke my sex-working heart

Can't Buy Me Love

Conditional Love

The world is built around walkers and drivers. Being something in-between makes people...

Biking While Trans

How one generation tried — and failed — to censor us.

Parental Discretion Advised

In Praise Of The Explicit

I was the one who needed to "transition;" my child needed to grow into who they were meant to be.

How My Child Helped My Transition With Their Transition

The answer to complicated conversations on rape, celebrity, and blackness in America is not to...

Complicated Legends

Why We Have To Keep Talking About Kobe

The last time I felt this strange about being gay was probably around the time of my 5th-grade...

Cinematic Shaming

Everything Is Better Than “Better Than Chocolate”

Why is it so terrible to say, “from a great number of fantastic alternatives, we weighed the...

Being ‘Certain’ About Someone Is A Lie

My bike knew me before anyone else. Even long after my prurient schoolgirlish purity has been...

My First Ride

On Cinema and compulsory heterosexuality.

How Rom-Coms Made Me Think I Was Straight

We have never been allowed to have love, or anger.

Apistolary Love

A Love Letter To The Sick And Disabled During The Pandemic

2002. You get a boyfriend, Ryan. Sex with him is like a bath just a few degrees colder than you...

brucie cleveland

Promises Promises

Sex: A Queer Chronology

Don't tell us to smile.

Sevindj Nurkiyazova

The Ambiguous Smile

If you are only able to paint half a picture, then it is best to say nothing at all

ComplexLegacies

When Discussing Black Role Models, You Can’t Neglect Mentioning Race

Recognizing toxicity and abuse and saving yourself is an act that truly has no gender.

Christina Quintana (CQ)

Genderfication: Dangerous Collaborations

I took the opportunity to consider the mattress as a skeleton key to phases of intimacy.

Romancing The Mattress, Or, Our Longstanding Obsession With Beds

Dumbledore ushered me into a fantastical world when my own strangeness proved too much.

Diana Valenzuela

The Queer Tokenism Of Albus Dumbledore

Perhaps one doesn’t go to theme parks to see oneself. Perhaps one goes to see the Other.

Migueltzinta Solís

Two Gay Mexicans And A Genderqueer Jew Go To Dollywood

I am not nervous that my doctor will find something. I’m nervous that she won’t.

the doctor is out

You’re Overreacting: The Lineage Of Hypochondria And Gender

Being born assigned female at birth (AFAB) means a lot of things for a lot of people, but most...

Jessi Quinn Alperin

For/Men/Who Bleed

As far back as I can remember I have been running—from the past, the present, towards the unknown.

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

I Got My Life Straight At A Gay Bar

I've learned to whiz right by Female, Male, White, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, and...

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

We Are An Unnuanced Country: Gender, Race, and the Great American Landscape

My teenage quest for power and identity as a gay black kid in a wicked little town.

Wash N' Ride

White gay men throwing remarks towards black men about “BBC” are unknowingly taking on the role...

Jungle fever and the objectification of the black male body

It’s 2020, and South Asian men are reminded they still ain’t sweatable.

Hemanth Nalamothu

JaggedLittlePill

the Unfuckability of brown dudes

What my trans teens son's journey is teaching me about accepting and embracing my aging disabled...

Robin Wilson-Beattie

bodies in transition

I skipped the speech and went for the nuclear option: “I love you!” Silence. “I’m missing a leg...

Michael Narkunski

To Know The Truth

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