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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

On T.I., sanctioned abuse, and the social construct of virginity

Not All (Hy)men

Songs for the streets & in the sheets.

Sun/Moon/Rising

The Pulpit Presents: Fight Songs

How My Menstrual Cycle’s Return Made Me Feel Complete

Not A Period, Just An Em Dash

Sasha Torchinsky

Dear Ellen: How Hard Candy Taught Me About Consent

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

Bisexuality And Unexpected Pregnancy

Pamela Rafalow Grossman

the doctor is in

What’s Cancer Like? Having Lived Through The Trump Presidency, You Already Know

How Bernie Sanders Failed Feminists

Notes From A Wannabe Bernie Babe

My mother would be proud. Really.

50, And A Reluctant Porn Star

“The Southern way of treating it is like a disease, like sex is something that once you catch it...

‘Between The Bills’ Episode Three: The Human Wreckage Left Behind In Sexual Education

An Interview With Nashville-Based Artist, Daena

Music As An Integration Of Feeling

“We emotionally anthropomorphize the disease, we take it personally. We’re suddenly at war.

Emily Rose Thorne

BetweenTheBills

‘Between The Bills’ Episode Six: A Pandemic, The Body, And You

We’re all inhabiting the very thing that threatens our demise. Our bodies.

A Bodily Reckoning Amongst The Coronavirus

Not understanding the nuances of my sexuality, I concluded that suppressing one side of my...

Straddling Borders: The Surprising Bond Between Borderline Personality Disorder And Bisexuality

“I believe that on the other side of this loss is a love that I have found in connection."

Colleen Rothman

The Crisis Of American Motherhood: Reading Sarah Menkedick’s New Book “Ordinary Insanity”

I'm in a prison inside a prison.

Quarantined In The Room I Was Assaulted In

The price of opinions in the anti-trafficking movement

You're Not A “Real” Survivor

Porn reflects society, and new adult content is transforming our dialogue around gender and race.

Santiago Cárdenas

The Silver Lining Of COVID Is The Overhaul Of Porn Production

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

Biking While Trans

Our favorite places to peruse everything metaphysical. (Because it's already been a long year.)

Finley Muratova

New Year Occult Gift Guide To Bolster Magic (And Your Spirits)

Whips and chains aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

The Secret Life Of A Professional Dominatrix

Choosing not to become a mother is just as powerful as making the decision to become one.

Céline Bossart

Getting A Legal Abortion Was The Greatest Choice Of My Life

“Maybe you should be more careful.” Translation: “Maybe you should stop being a slut."

Laura Weinstein

"I'm Clean. I Assume You Are, Too": It Has Never Been More Timely To De-Stigmatize STIs

As I washed my feet, I thought of how unfeminine I felt, how sad and heavy I felt at the...

Of men and money

The Foot Fetishized, The Brain Dissociated, And The Body In-Between

There seems to be a gap between word and action, and in that gap there is silence.

Silence In The Age of Enthusiastic Consent

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Not So G-Rated

sex, sex, sex

What alarms me the most is the strength of the spray, but maybe I shouldn't be so surprised....

Miranda Steffens

I Milked My Sister In A Target Bathroom

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

The Female Sex, A Motif

A proper soul suck, that’s what I wanted to bestow upon this sweet, cardigan-wearing young man.

woop, there it is!

Bullseye, Or, How I Learned To Keep My Mouth Open And Eyes Shut

When I started addressing my gender dysphoria, my body was no longer at war with my mind.

brave new world

How My Mental Health Journey Was Actually My Sex Liberation Journey

Some things—like your desire to peg your partner—are best discussed not mid coitus.

A Case For Sending Out Customer Satisfaction Surveys Post-Sex

Porn reflects society, and new adult content is transforming our dialogue around gender and race.

Santiago Cárdenas

The Silver Lining Of COVID Is The Overhaul Of Porn Production

(Plus self-love, community and a dildo)

Florence Gonsalves

I Went to Betty Dodson’s Workshop and All I Got Was an Orgasm

Sexuality allows us to bring a whole self into the voting booth, including the parts that orgasm.

Come as you are

Inclusive Porn Is Putting The 'O' in Voting

From the Diary of Katie Tandy, Age 12

Pulp It Like It's Hot: Aliens, BDSM, and Lost Virginity

My mother would be proud. Really.

50, And A Reluctant Porn Star

(It may have to do with God, Ohio, Emo, and Insane Clown Posse)

Whyhaveyouforsakenme?

How I Botched Having Sex With My Childhood Dreamboat

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

Aurel Erotica During Social Isolation

(While Not Touching Anyone)

10 Sexy Ways To Get Off During The Quarantine

Kinky keeps us healthy.

Leah Blooms aka Leah Peterson

Self-Care For The Kinky

I fell in love with my domme - and it consumed me.

SC Langgle (Stephanie Parent)

Whip It Real Good

My Dungeon Love Affair

Discovering, and delighting in, the genderqueer body

Leah Blooms aka Leah Peterson

Being The Feast

I knew that if I reignited my sexual self with the wrong person, I would be in therapy forever and..

Easy as 1, 2, 3

The Curative Powers Of A Post-Cancer Ménage

Whips and chains aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

The Secret Life Of A Professional Dominatrix

Lies! Lies! Wicked lies!

Emilie Haertsche

Goop’s Vagina Candle Doesn’t Smell Like Gwyneth’s Vagina And I’m Mad About It

As I washed my feet, I thought of how unfeminine I felt, how sad and heavy I felt at the...

Of men and money

The Foot Fetishized, The Brain Dissociated, And The Body In-Between

“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

This is not a complete history, because some things are too much to speak of and too sacred to...

A Brief History Of My Body

On handjobs, classrooms, and earthquakes

PULP IT LIKE IT’S HOT: We Took Biology Class Seriously

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

He jerked his body like a fish in ecstasy. If I'd blown him, I'd have gotten kicked in the face.

Tiffany Alzatti

PULP It Like It’s Hot: The Orgasm Heard Round The World

Blood. Was. Everywhere.

BrokeDickMountain

PULP It Like It’s Hot: That Time I Broke My Boyfriend’s Penis Off

I lift my underwear with a beastly bellow and grasp my unicorn tail — & pee everywhere.

PULP It Like It’s Hot: That Time I Peed On My Best Friend's Face

Hey you! Nice Ass!

Teaches of Peaches

PULP It Like It’s Hot: The Time My Ass (Almost) Became The Butt of A Joke

Wouldn't my vagina just.. make the cum go away?

PULP It Like It's Hot: The Gooey Truth

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

Or, why we started PULP

Sex Shouldn’t Come Wrapped In Brown Paper

Or, why we started PULP

Messy And Without Apology

How do you prepare for the expiration of a dream?

Through The Looking-App: The Shattered Fantasy Of Tinder

The rhythm of sex—without ever saying out loud, 'let’s try this in quarter notes'—amazes me.

Fit To Bust: The Neuroscience Of Sex And Rock ‘N Roll

Like a one-woman marching band, you announce to the world that fatness has no bearing on pleasure.

SignedSealedDelivered

An Open Letter To My Orgasm

With Resting Obvious Face, imagine my expression when I saw my first Tinder hook-up’s gigantic penis

PULP IT LIKE IT's HOT: Sex All Over My Face

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

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

Here’s a secret. Talking about bodies, pleasure, and sex is hard, but disabled people have a head...

Disabled People Are Better at Sex

Pregnant and married at 20. Eight years and three children later, you wake up to find your body...

No Sex Toys In The House of The Lord

The Quickshot is portable, pleasurable, discreet, and only looks a little like a robot anus...

PULP It Like It's Hot: The Blow Job Assistant

This was my moment. I had trained for this. I was so eager to get it right, to show how deep I...

The Day My Gag Reflex Died

Or, the night I learned vibrators can fly.

a bird, a plane?

When Your Sex Toy Testing is Interrupted

A Q&A with performers from San Francisco's (brand new!) Porn Film Festival.

IfYouSteamItTheyWillCome

Porn And The Expansive Nature Of Sexual Creativity

My heart races in a panic. What if it’s stuck under me? Well, I have to call mom again. For the...

Hitachi's Not So Magic Wand: Disability And Masturbation

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