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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

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

Unless we use this time to question society’s fundamental iniquity, history will repeat itself.

Global Feminism

Surviving Within A Capitalist Society Is Not Feminist Per Se

Songs for the streets & in the sheets.

Sun/Moon/Rising

The Pulpit Presents: Fight Songs

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

Strippers are in need of community, which is difficult as culture considers strippers robbers.

“Hustlers” Is Ugliness Wrapped In J. Lo’s Chinchilla Coat

The origins are as old as the record is of women who care for women, that is to say, old as the...

Tale As Old As Time

The Vital Work And History Of Abortion Doulas

Our culture reaffirms that if there isn’t proof of assault, then it didn’t happen.

Cassidy Scanlon

the sound of silence

Punk Rock Intervention

JOYCHILD portrays the authentic lives of genderqueer kids and their parents.

Finley Muratova

a love letter in their eyes

JOYCHILD Reminds Us To Love

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

Protection is a dignity not afforded brown women.

When Pain Becomes Pawn: White Women in “When They See Us”

His sheets were orange, the same color as your middle school soccer team. You remember when he...

Friday, Or, You Just Wanted To Sleep

The imperative connection between education and pleasure.

Sex Miseducation

There Wasn't Even a Banana: A Sex Education Comic

According to the ACLU, the maternal death rate for Black women in Georgia is twice that for white...

‘Between The Bills’ Episode Two: The Painful, Underfunded, Misogynistic Mystery Of PCOS

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

Some women identify with Ripley. Not me. I’m with that baby-obsessed xenomorph all the way. We...

Katherine Fusco

The Monstrousness of Motherhood: On 'Aliens' And Making Life

How My Menstrual Cycle’s Return Made Me Feel Complete

Not A Period, Just An Em Dash

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

(While Not Touching Anyone)

10 Sexy Ways To Get Off During The Quarantine

In the longue durée of time, you are remembered by what you destroy.

a cyclical nature

Write About Periods, About Destruction And Creation So Closely Entwined

All this bending of our bodies to our will — IVF, surrogates, egg freezing — are we not divining...

forbidden fruit

Are Children Another Kind Of Eternity?

In a time of widespread discrimination, it takes sacrifice and courage to love authentically.

Sandra E. Stevens

What I Did for Love

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

Hot Person Summer, right in your living room.

The Pulpit Presents: Suns Out Buns Out

“Is this as good as it will be?” The nurse smiled and told me the skin had “healed nicely.” Fixed...

Josephine Sargent

Giving Birth Left Me With Lifelong Scars

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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

Lies! Lies! Wicked lies!

Emilie Haertsche

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

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

The Secret Life Of A Professional Dominatrix

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

Discovering, and delighting in, the genderqueer body

Leah Blooms aka Leah Peterson

Being The Feast

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

SC Langgle (Stephanie Parent)

Whip It Real Good

My Dungeon Love Affair

Kinky keeps us healthy.

Leah Blooms aka Leah Peterson

Self-Care For The Kinky

(While Not Touching Anyone)

10 Sexy Ways To Get Off During The Quarantine

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

Aurel Erotica During Social Isolation

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

On handjobs, classrooms, and earthquakes

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

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

“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

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

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

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

PULP It Like It's Hot: The Gooey Truth

Hey you! Nice Ass!

Teaches of Peaches

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

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

Blood. Was. Everywhere.

BrokeDickMountain

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do you prepare for the expiration of a dream?

Through The Looking-App: The Shattered Fantasy Of Tinder

Or, why we started PULP

Messy And Without Apology

Or, why we started PULP

Sex Shouldn’t Come Wrapped In Brown Paper

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

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

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

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

Disabled People Are Better at Sex

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

IfYouSteamItTheyWillCome

Porn And The Expansive Nature Of Sexual Creativity

Or, the night I learned vibrators can fly.

a bird, a plane?

When Your Sex Toy Testing is Interrupted

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

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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