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

Wash N' Ride

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

Sandra E. Stevens

What I Did for Love

It didn’t matter to me that he was brutally violated and shot in the head. I just wanted to be...

Watching Boys Don't Cry As A Queer Indian Tween

The official impetus to silence women sees one of its earliest iterations in the outlaw of the...

Cristina Farella

On Ancient Greek Lamentation And Women In Democracy

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

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

“With HIV, we can prosecute it, or we can prevent it. You can’t do both.”

Emily Rose Thorne

Between The Bills’ Episode Five: The Criminalization of HIV/AIDS

Anti-trafficking campaigns contribute to a culture that doesn’t flinch when we die in high numbers..

Vanessa Carlisle

Showing Up: In Solidarity With The International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers

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

Educator + PULP teacher Naava Weiner believes everyone can be an artist. (They’re probably right.)

Finley Muratova

PULP Public School Profile

Drawing The Body: Artist Naava Weiner On The Importance Of Creation

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

Or, the rise of a (very) unlikely sex icon

All I Want For Christmas Is Jerry Saltz

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

PULP It Like It's Hot: The Gooey Truth

With COVID-19, patients are left to navigate prenatal care solo.

Lauren Harkawik

No Guests Allowed

Assault is complicated, and we are in the midst of a tumultuous language struggle over it.

Allison Lirish Dean

it's all in the details

AOC, And What We Talk About When We Talk About Sexual Assault

I thought they were a gift I had to sacrifice for my joy—and I was fine, until I wasn’t

I Stopped Taking My Antidepressants So I Could Orgasm

“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

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

Friday, Or, You Just Wanted To Sleep

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

Freezebreathing

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

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

For Black men, the most perilous emotion to publicly display is vulnerability.

dangerous stereotypes

Black Men On The Record About Vulnerability, Race, And Sexual Assault

This notion of birth as a balm for death feels — natural, now.

Birth Death Cycle

Parenting A Dying Parent Made Me Realize How Much I Wanted To Mother

On this nasty day.

Six Nasty Women Worth Remembering

Am I not more willing to listen to my attractive friends? I am just as culpable.

Some Thoughts on Ugliness

Author Janice Kaplan has a new book on why brilliant women still live in the shadows.

Your Fight Is For Posterity: Q&A On “The Genius Of Women”

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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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