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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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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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