Poetry
The Elvis Machine–Poems by Kim Vodicka
Making the Centipede a Perfect Morning–by Rushi Vyas
Cross to Bear–Poems by Afieya Kipp
Fiction
The Gynecologist–by Margaret Nickens
Essays
a sex thinktank
Gemini Rising—Poems by Christie Ann Reynolds
THE LIT LINES OF YOUR PALM [IN THE ONLY DARK WE KNOW OF THE ROOM] by Michael Wasson
Dear FetLife Tourist: An Open Letter by AB
I Don’t Want to Look How They Want Me to Look: On Tininess and Sexuality by Ansley Clark
Exiting on Bell Road—Flash by Doni Shepard
January 20, 2017 Issue
On this Inauguration Day, we are raising our voices for justice, equality, diversity, unity and empathy.
Essays
Mariam Williams “Radical Self-love: Writing Intimate Spaces in the Trump Era”
Loie Merritt “in the orchard of unmentionable”
Alysia Sawchyn “Feeling the World Askew”
Courtney Udischas “Un-President-Ed: The Trauma of Trump”
Eric Mueller “On Dick: How Materialism Caught Up with My Queer Life”
Caitlin Scarano “Tell Me How to Be”
Rose Heredia “No Time for Apathy: Processing the 2016 Election”
Poetry
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal “BALLOT BALLET BULLOT BULLET”
Jessica Lawson “Oath of Softest”
Torrin Greathouse “Body/Language”
Fiction
Erin Armstrong “A Southern Mythology: Tales from Georgia”
Interview
with Jennifer Williams, creator of “The Better Feminism Workbook”
IMAGE: Shepard Fairey, www.theamplifierfoundation.org
Poetry
Essays
Modern Love and the Trouble with Soulmates, by Melissa Brooks
Bad Mommy–a Flash Memoir, by Diana Odasso
Fiction
Interviews
Recipes
Other
Why Can’t Women Just Get Along by Melissa Brooks
Steven Universe: A Gender Fusion Buffet on Cartoon Network by Rachel Busnardo
Conifer–Prose Poems by Kolby Harvey
Tiny Dictators and Purple Lattices–A personal essay by Rose Hawthorn
Peruvian Aphrodisiac Ceviche by Eileen Roscina Richardson
by Rose Hawthorn
It was 2 a.m. and I had just peed behind a dumpster in a parking lot. My shoe was in the wrong place at the wrong time and small wet dots speckled its toe. Away from the dumpster, I pulled my pants down for a second time, just enough to show a guy I barely knew a purple latticed bruise covering my right ass cheek. “Holy shit!” he said. We were drunk.Continue Reading
Eileen Roscina Richardson is The Thought Erotic’s chef-in-residence, and a true fermentation enthusiast and certified Natural Foods Chef. Eileen discovered her passion for food, fermentation and health at a permaculture ranch in Costa Rica six years ago. She attended culinary school at Denver’s Nutritional Therapy Institute and has since helped in the development of various commercial fermented products, started a fermentation education business, written a variety of recipes, completed a fermentation focused residency with author Sandor Katz and founded the culinary seed company, Grown Home, with her partner Stephen.
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