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Lady Cheeky’s Sex Satori

  • Antonia Crane
  • April 5, 2013
Antonia Crane sits down with sex blogger and erotica writer Lady Cheeky for an interview about her journey to passion, positive body image, and orgasm via True Blood.
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It Doesn’t Mean Very Much At All

  • Ruth Fowler
  • February 21, 2013
I was tired of endlessly explaining that sex work could be empowering and could be exploitative, but that most things in life could be either of these things as well.
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Why I Write Smut: A Manifesto

  • Steve Almond
  • January 23, 2013
Because I’ve devoted perhaps eighty percent of my adult waking hours to thinking about sex, and it seems dishonest to pretend otherwise in my work.
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The Rumpus Interview with a Ginza Hostess

  • Shimon Tanaka
  • December 20, 2012
Mayumi, a hostess in the Ginza district of Japan, lends an intimate perspective of the country's notorious Water Trade.
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Things Women Have Said to Me in Brothels

  • Calenture
  • November 16, 2012
I worry about you when I don’t see you for a while.
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The “Most Beautiful Thing That Ever Fucked”: The Rumpus Interview with Oriana Small

  • Antonia Crane
  • November 8, 2012
I was dying to interview Oriana Small about her porno memoir Girlvert.
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Here Comes the Girl

  • Antonia Crane
  • October 23, 2012
I didn’t analyze production levels or consider marketing strategies. I didn’t say to myself, “Tonight you’re going to get with the jack-off program.” I was a dime-a-dozen girl doing a customer service job, and that job demanded more and more of me whether I liked it or not.
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Jane Fondas I Have Known

  • Devan Goldstein
  • October 18, 2012
However I came to possess the magazine, I looked at it often, if with a smoldering shame. Unlike what I could find on television, the pictures were clear and shiny, and seeing women in bikinis showed me parts of the female body I had never seen before—the dimpled lower back, the tendon in the crook between inner thigh and crotch.
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Donna

  • Zoë Ruiz
  • September 21, 2012
I developed my first and only porn star crush on Princess Donna. I watched her videos and read her blog and imagined that one day we would meet and she would publicly disgrace me like she publicly disgraced models.
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Facing Sex Addiction: A John Comes Clean

  • Antonia Crane
  • September 20, 2012
“Mike” contacted me for advice about the stripper he was seeing after he’d read my column on The Rumpus. He told me that when his wife was diagnosed with pancreatic…
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A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories

  • Roxane Gay
  • July 27, 2012
We are still in that time in our history where public figures come out of invisible closets largely built by a public insatiable in its desire to know all the intimate details of the private lives of very public people.
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Pro Tip: Penning The Erotic

  • Rebecca Rubenstein
  • July 19, 2012
Erotic fiction seems to be making some kind of comeback. In light of this, we could all learn a thing or two from Seth Fried. The writer spices up “Das…
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