Sex
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #12: Miss Marty, Mother of Strippers
New Orleans has a textured and macabre history when it comes to the sex industry, particularly regarding house moms–that hybrid of manager, referee and babysitter.
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The Fight for Erotica
Government censorship can’t happen in America, right? According to writer Marilyn Jaye Lewis, it can. She sheds light on the erotica community’s recent struggle with government censorship and why all writers need to be more conscious of first amendment rights…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #56: Ménage à Trois
Your body knows what it’s hungry for. Feed it.
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“My son finally hit this jerk in the face.”
As a single mother living in a majority-Republican town, Alana Noel Voth is determined to raise an open-minded son against all odds. She talks to her son frankly about sex and sexuality, despite the sometimes overwhelming negativity she encounters from…
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FUNNY WOMEN #37: Taking the Tea Party to the Bedroom
Why do people think being a Tea Party Patriot means missing out on all the fun when it comes to sex?
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“I decided to do it because I was uncomfortable not being able to be myself.”
Kye Allums, a guard on George Washington University’s women’s basketball team, is a transgender man. “Kye will be the first publicly transgender NCAA Div. 1 basketball player when he steps foot on the court Nov. 13 in his home town…
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Causing a Rumpus
Founding editor Stephen Elliott has a great interview up over at TruthDig in which he talks about activism, sex, this very website, and “The Art of the Overshare.”
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #54: The Lusty Broad
The question is how would your life be transformed if you chose to love this time for once with all your intelligence?
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This Book Will End Your Life: The Greatest Modern Persian Novel Ever Written
Among the many places I was forbidden to go as a youth was through the pages of a book that didn’t even exist in our bookshelves.
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #11: Angela Eve’s Bohemian Hustle
Angela Eve and I work together at a topless joint on Bourbon Street. We spoke in the locker room while she brushed her hair and I applied gloppy eyelash glue. Angela Eve’s the hardest working stripper at Rick’s. She lures…
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FUNNY WOMEN #33: What She Really Thinks About Sex
After more than two years of deliberation, the suggestions from thirteen expert groups that have been working on the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (used to diagnose recognized psychological disorders) are now available online.