a sex thinktank
Poetry
Cleavage Abby Templeton-Greene
Orgasmo Anonimo Matheus Arcaro, translation Laura Cesarco Eglin
Fiction
The Rectory Kathleen J. Woods
The Space Between Courtney Morgan
Essays
Glimpse into the Collective: An Interview with A.S. Leena Res
Franco, Fetish and What Happens When You Disrobe the Fantasy Courtney Morgan
Erotica
Her Tile Saw Jean Mullen
Deep Dive Elizabeth LeFay
Essays
Why You Should Talk to Your Healthcare Provider About Sex Fei Cai
Pregnant Hedonist Vanessa Angelica Villarreal
An Assault of Language: Jennifer Tamayo’s You Da One Liz McGehee
A Mother’s Litany Courtney Morgan
Poetry
Shudder Loie Merritt
Erotica
An Orgasm Brewing Elizabeth LeFay
Essays
Re-imagining the Language of Sex, or: Squirting and its Synonyms Kathleen Woods
Pervert Rebecca Kallemyn
Why the Feminist Question Matters Melissa Brooks
The Sex Wars, Revisited: Sex Positive and Negative Feminist Voices on Pornography
Fiction
Wet Liz McGehee
Love in 4D Steve Lewis
Dirty Dancing, or Blurred Lines and Other Balancing Acts Loie Merritt
Escaping Hell: Sexual horror in Titanic, The Shining and Scream Melissa Brooks
Sex is Risky Business Moksha Gita
Princesses, Prostitutes, Penises and Patriarchy–What Pretty Woman and The Little Mermaid taught me about sex, bodies and womanhood Courtney Morgan
An Early Sexual Education: The Film Roundup (in which sex and love may be childishly conflated) Loie Merritt
Aphrodisiacal Recipes: Maca Popcorn
Princesses, Prostitutes, Penises and Patriarchy—What Pretty Woman and The Little Mermaid Taught Me About Sex, Bodies and Womanhood
by Courtney Morgan
Edward: Tell me, what kind of money do you girls make these days, ballpark?
Vivian: Can’t take less than a hundred dollars.
Edward: Hundred dollars a night?
Vivian: One hour.Continue Reading
by Moksha Gita
Imagine: Train tracks grinding—like Lou Reed scratching Warhol dope out of his Gretsch six string.Continue Reading
(in which sex and love may be childishly conflated)
by Loie Merritt
Sexual authority means a belted dress and a beast that terrorizes your intellectual hunger until you just want to dance, Beauty and the Beast:
For the rest of your life, snowball fights qualify as foreplay.Continue Reading
by Loie Merritt
Dirty Dancing came out the year I was born. It received an unanticipated level of popular acclaim. It seems no one thought the film would do well. After test audiences shuddered at the abortion subplot and rumors of the cast despising each other (naturally calling their quick and engorging passion into question), the film nearly went straight to VHS and into the dusty corner of your local video store forever. Instead, it became a fixture in late 20th century American Romance. Patrick Swayze made modern dance cool, combining ballroom style with the dirty boogie. It won an Oscar. It won a Grammy.Continue Reading
by Melissa Brooks
When I was a little kid, I didn’t understand the role periods played in reproduction. I didn’t know sex had anything to do with penetration. My understanding was only that it involved two people rolling around together, kissing and moaning, and that it was a cardinal sin unless it occurred between a husband and a wife in the privacy of their bedroom.Continue Reading
I have always considered myself a “late bloomer.” In my early teens, I had a makeshift “camp boyfriend.” He was a blonde, lanky guy. Outside of the end-of-camp dance, he kissed my cheek too hard and too wetly while I sat on his lap, fidgeting over his erection. I did not enjoy my first real kiss until the end of high school.Continue Reading
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