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The origins of a misplaced panic.
L.V. Anderson Slate Dec 2019 20min Permalink
An insider watches Kink.com prepare to leave the hundred-year-old armory it occupies in San Francisco.
Kross cuts through the moans and shouts from off-camera: “Someone go wide!” She’s telling the cameramen to make sure they are adequately capturing the reverse gang bang of Ferrara—the love of her life.
Tracy Clark-Flory Jezebel Oct 2019 30min Permalink
I was asked about labor protections for adult-film performers. I said: You have to recognize how complicated this is. The things that sex workers do to stay safe are almost always the things civilians want to pass laws to stop. Everything looks different depending on the distance from which you’re looking.
LORELEI LEE n+1 Sep 2019 40min Permalink
They were an organized group of ex-strippers, plus a few role players recruited from Craigslist. They fished for marks in strip clubs, Wall Street cocktail bars, and even TGI Fridays, and then lured them to strip clubs. The marks woke up with little memory of the night before and their credit cards maxed out.
Jessica Pressler New York Dec 2015 30min Permalink
It was a place where you could, whatever you needed could to look like, for so many folks who’d been told they could not.
Bryan Washington Buzzfeed Jun 2019 15min Permalink
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“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.
Alice Hines New York May 2019 25min Permalink
On sex education and why people are still so uncomfortable talking about it.
Jessica Pressler Elle Apr 2019 10min Permalink
The death of a submissive man-pup and the scrotal silicone injection that killed him.
Daniel Villarreal The Stranger Nov 2018 25min Permalink
Teo Brank found a lucrative side hustle arranging escorts for sex parties. But when his business soured, he turned to extortion.
Narratively Oct 2018 15min Permalink
The untold story of how Lisa Howard’s intimate diplomacy with Cuba’s revolutionary leader changed the course of the Cold War.
PETER KORNBLUH Politico Magazine Apr 2018 35min Permalink
When Ben Roethlisberger, Charles Barkley, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and the future President of the United States crossed paths at a celebrity golf tournament.
Ben Schreckinger GQ Mar 2018 Permalink
Sex in the Olympic Village.
Sam Alipour ESPN Jul 2012 15min Permalink
American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know.
Maggie Jones New York Times Magazine Feb 2018 20min Permalink
The not-so-secret sex parties of Silicon Valley.
Emily Chang Vanity Fair Jan 2018 20min Permalink
The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”
William McGowan Slate Jul 2012 30min Permalink
Best Article Sex Religion Travel
A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.
Lawrence Osborne Harper's Mar 2011 20min Permalink
“I learned about sex in a Laundromat. The setting wasn’t my idea. It was my mother’s who had brought me along on washday to break the news.”
Cameron Crowe Rolling Stone Oct 1975 10min Permalink
Gang-bang buffet tables, deeply earnest 'Letters to the Editor,' ghost-writing Kierkegaard references into model bios in Barely Legal, and how a half-decade of reviewing porn eroded the thin line between the author's alter egos and self.
Evan Wright LA Weekly Apr 2000 40min Permalink
How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jun 2017 25min Permalink
Michael Thevis was a pioneer in the 1970s porn world, making millions off his coin-operated peep-show machines. He built his family one of the most ornate mansions in Atlanta before it all came crashing down amidst bombings, murders, and a prison break.
Jeff Maysh The Daily Beast Jun 2017 35min Permalink
How a streaming empire has changed the way the world has sex.
Maureen O'Conner New York Jun 2017 25min Permalink
Blazers and bloodbath near the 6 train.
Michael Stone New York Nov 1986 40min Permalink
What the experiences of nonmonogamous couples can tell us about jealousy, love, desire and trust.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine May 2017 50min Permalink
Zukle: The old guy, Bob [Polizos]—I like him, he's a nice guy. When were first getting started, he said, "I like competition." And I said, "Good, because you're gonna get it!" People go over there for $5 steak bites, then they come here for a $500 lap dance.
Polizos: I don't want them here. We are a real restaurant. They're nothing but a whorehouse!
Natalie O'Neill Broadly Apr 2017 10min Permalink