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

Madder than hell

On Being Crazy

An interview with cop turned call girl turned activist — Norma Jean Almodovar

Women's History Month

Fear and Loathing in America: Whorephobia and Workers’ Rights

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

On Cinema and compulsory heterosexuality.

How Rom-Coms Made Me Think I Was Straight

Hot Person Summer, right in your living room.

The Pulpit Presents: Suns Out Buns Out

As far back as I can remember I have been running—from the past, the present, towards the unknown.

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

I Got My Life Straight At A Gay Bar

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

Whyhaveyouforsakenme?

How I Botched Having Sex With My Childhood Dreamboat

I was put on medication that would exacerbate my symptom use, and give me the energy to push...

DoubleStandards

When Black Women ‘Weigh Too Much’ To Have An Eating Disorder

What happened to the once-illustrious San Fernando Valley now that everyone is, basically, watch...

The Fall of San Fernando Valley: How Silicon Valley F*$%ed Over Silicone Valley

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

I called it temporary. I changed the subject.

Sossity Chiricuzio

Leaving The House: On Chronic Pain And Mourning The Body

If I become pregnant and I don’t know it, it could end itself, and it could end me with it.

#mybodymychoice

Intrauterine: The Consequences Of Failed Birth Control

Ethical non-monogamy, and Indian queerness

Breaking Free In A Country Of Caged Desires

How can people be expected to make such a critical choice without their communities’ support? We...

"It’s Complicated": LGBTQ Folks Weigh-In On Abortion Rights

The world is terrifying to a child. It's run by magic freaks who judge and surveil you.

Jonathan Poletti

Santa Is Very, Very Creepy

“Liberal people throughout the country tend to write off the South because of racist stereotypes".

Emily Rose Thorne

‘Between The Bills’ Episode One: Recognizing The Feminist South

On being the sexual support animal, popular culture, and the difference between porn and life.

Portrait Of Some Not Super Fiery Ladies: Being The Sad Mascot

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

Finley Muratova

a love letter in their eyes

JOYCHILD Reminds Us To Love

The air is terrible. Everything smells like burning. Some of what we’re breathing is bodies.

Pamela Rafalow Grossman

Missing: The Fliers Of 9/11, The Lives Behind The Photographs‍

How family estrangement broke my sex-working heart

Can't Buy Me Love

Conditional Love

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

Disabled People Are Better at Sex

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 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

Paradigm Media was bound to be a success.

Finley Muratova

When Wellness in Business Strikes a Cord

The infamous serial killer tells us a lot about toxic masculinity today.

Jessica Wildfire

if looks could kill

Ted Bundy: The First Incel

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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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