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My body is marked by years and revelations and sorrow and transformation.

Sossity Chiricuzio

growing, loving, knowing

Making A Home Of Knowing

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

I'd been pitting my body and brain against each other. My mind had always won, my body always...

When The Body Aches It Tells The Truth

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

“Why haven’t we long ago questioned why everything we need isn’t in the bathroom?”

“Between The Bills” Episode Four: Period Poverty And Menstrual Equity

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

Get married anyway.

Before Corona Ever Happened, I Had A Socially Distant Wedding

“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

How Misogyny Invades Kink Art

On Netflix’s ‘Bonding’

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”

Or, why we started PULP

Sex Shouldn’t Come Wrapped In Brown Paper

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

A comic of honest, awkward anecdotes

Third Time Lucky

Rowena Sheehan, "Uncomfortable Nuggets of Sex Talk"

Definitions govern things like relationship and power. Things like ‘premenstrual dysphoric disorder'

Madder than hell

On Being Crazy

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

Lies! Lies! Wicked lies!

Emilie Haertsche

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

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

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

Christina Quintana (CQ)

Genderfication: Dangerous Collaborations

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

Apistolary Love

A Love Letter To The Sick And Disabled During The Pandemic

Ethical non-monogamy, and Indian queerness

Breaking Free In A Country Of Caged Desires

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

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

Don't tell us to smile.

Sevindj Nurkiyazova

The Ambiguous Smile

What is “natural” is actually just culture. It's all a construct.

“It’s Only Natural”: The Dubious Science Sanctioning Sexism

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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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