How I Learned About Sex
“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.”
Great articles, every Saturday.
“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
Harmony smiles, blinks and frowns. She can hold a conversation, tell jokes and quote Shakespeare. She’ll remember your birthday, McMullen told me, what you like to eat, and the names of your brothers and sisters. She can hold a conversation about music, movies and books. And of course, Harmony will have sex with you whenever you want.
Jenny Kleeman The Guardian Apr 2017 25min Permalink
Investigating the world of “belly torture.”
Laura Yan The Outline Mar 2017 Permalink
A profile of Damon Lawner and his mansion.
Mike Sager Esquire Nov 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of Candy Barr—porn star pioneer, burlesque legend, Texas folk hero.
Gary Cartwright Texas Monthly Dec 1976 40min Permalink
A program in Washington state aims to teach johns about healthy relationships - and the patriarchy.
Brooke Jarvis GQ Feb 2017 15min Permalink
Throughout 2015 and 2016, amid a series of conversations I had socially with gay and bisexual men about chemsex, new, darker elements to this scene began to emerge; details from unconnected participants that mirrored each other – the same incidents, the same crimes, sometimes even the same culprits. Together they formed a picture: that beneath the surface reports about chemsex – the endless hedonism, the irresistibly intense sex – there is a much blacker sea, unmapped.
Patrick Strudwick Buzzfeed Dec 2016 20min Permalink
Carrie Goldberg is a pioneer in the field of sexual privacy, using the law to defend victims of hacking, leaking, and other online assaults.
Margaret Talbot New Yorker Nov 2016 35min Permalink
On America’s deep and persistent fear of the black penis.
Wesley Morris New York Times Magazine Oct 2016 25min Permalink
What happens when you target sex ed at boys?
Rachel Giese The Walrus Mar 2014 25min Permalink
Inside the thriving subculture of Japanese men who eschew sex and romance with real live people in favor of real relationships with 2-D characters printed on body pillows.
Lisa Katayama New York Times Magazine Jul 2009 15min Permalink
The internet has made porn ubiquitous. It’s also ruined the industry.
Katrina Forrester New Yorker Sep 2016 15min Permalink
On the obsession with the sexual and social habits of American teenage girls.
Zoë Heller New York Review of Books Aug 2016 10min Permalink
Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Aug 2012 35min Permalink
The adventures of a pro bono gigolo.
John H. Richardson GQ Jun 2016 20min Permalink
She claimed to be a porn recruiter who just needed to see the women have sex with her photographer once before she could book them for jobs. But she and her photographer were the same person — a freelance tech journalist named Matt Hickey.
Sydney Brownstone The Stranger Jun 2016 15min Permalink
Barbara Williamson co-founded Sandstone, one of the most famous radical experiments in group sex and communal living of the 1970s. Then she got wild.
Alex Mar Atlas Obscura Jun 2016 25min Permalink
The aftermath of a childhood filled with subway flashers, teachers who asked for hugs, and boys who joked about your breasts.
Jessica Valenti The Guardian May 2016 15min Permalink