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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”

Strippers are in need of community, which is difficult as culture considers strippers robbers.

“Hustlers” Is Ugliness Wrapped In J. Lo’s Chinchilla Coat

Get married anyway.

Before Corona Ever Happened, I Had A Socially Distant Wedding

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”

We wanted two kids, but one at a time. It would be so much easier with one. We can do this, we...

Mourning a Possibility

Vanishing Twin Syndrome

How Bernie Sanders Failed Feminists

Notes From A Wannabe Bernie Babe

How My Menstrual Cycle’s Return Made Me Feel Complete

Not A Period, Just An Em Dash

Misadventures in birth control.

Lauren Harkawik

Stranger than Fiction

To My Missing IUD, Wherever You Are

In the contemporary United States, few practices are as taken for granted as the deliberate...

Genevieve Walker

What could be scarier than a Hairy Woman?

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

“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

The pandemic is worth the learning we will do, even though we don’t quite know how yet.

If The Pandemic Is Hard For You, Consider That We’ve Never Been Taught Stillness

Blood. Was. Everywhere.

BrokeDickMountain

PULP It Like It’s Hot: That Time I Broke My Boyfriend’s Penis Off

Standing with my daughter beneath the full sap moon, I sensed some primal reconnection.

An Auspicious Time To Start Bleeding

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

Disabled People Are Better at Sex

How the “The Miseducation Of Bindu” made it to the big screen and why it matters.

Vicious, Alienating, Funny As Hell: A New Kind Of Coming-Of-Age Story In America

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

Promoting empathy-driven business models for POC, queer-centric apparel.

Meet the Makers Behind HECHA / 做

It’s 2020, and South Asian men are reminded they still ain’t sweatable.

Hemanth Nalamothu

JaggedLittlePill

the Unfuckability of brown dudes

All this bending of our bodies to our will — IVF, surrogates, egg freezing — are we not divining...

forbidden fruit

Are Children Another Kind Of Eternity?

Our favorite places to peruse everything metaphysical. (Because it's already been a long year.)

Finley Muratova

New Year Occult Gift Guide To Bolster Magic (And Your Spirits)

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

The Disposable Sex Worker trope should be familiar to anyone who has seen a crime drama.

“When They’re Dead, They’re Just Hookers”

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

Betsy DeVos' resigned, but her history of sanctioned bigotry and discrimination lingers on.

Finley Muratova

Don’t Forget The Terrible Legacy Of Betsy DeVos

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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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