Sex
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Inside American Brothels: The Rumpus Interview With Marc McAndrews
Marc McAndrews visited twenty-nine brothels in Nevada over five years to photograph the women who worked as legal prostitutes in their environment.
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Sexy Stories
“The next fantasy I can remember was a lesbian prison gang rape. I appropriated this fantasy not from the wonders of cable TV but from books.” Rumpus friend and author Jillian Lauren shares her thoughts on sex, novels, and Salinger’s…
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Jill Johnston
Jill Johnston, author of Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution and “longtime cultural critic for The Village Voice,” passed away on Saturday at the age of 81. (via TheBookBench)
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The Scarlet “SW” for Sex Worker
I first heard about the U of New Mexico controversy via Facebook, when Joy Harjo left a status update reporting that she’d had to quit her job because the university was preventing her from protecting her students from sexual harassment.…
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Portraits of Phone Sex Operators
“My first night was on a Saturday at midnight. It was a gentleman who I believe called himself Bob. He told me about his first experience with a glory hole. He explained that he had no one he felt comfortable…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #51: No Mystery About Sperm
Not a single one of us knows what the future holds.
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Jack Stevenson: A Dirty Old Man in Action
Fortified with homemade iced Vietnamese coffee, Jack Stevenson describes his work as a film archaeologist in San Francisco, the former sex capital of the U.S.:
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #50: Strange Proposal
Snakes. Hummingbirds. Perhaps a polar bear.
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The Horniest Species Imaginable
“Only with the relatively recent shift from off-the-land foraging to agriculture did our species veer away from cooperation and sharing, even sharing of mates, in small groups; hierarchy, sexual repression and violence may pass for the human normal nowadays, but…
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Stephen Elliott on sex
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott talks sex and discusses subsidizing sex workers for the disabled in an interview with podcasters Kink On Tap.
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The True Gauge of Success
Porn has returned to the streets of Baghdad, signaling success for Operation Enduring Freedom, or whatever the American military effort is called. Mission Finally Accomplished!