Sex
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #6: Thirsty Vaginas Meet
The Perfumed Garden vs. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, both translated by Sir Richard F. Burton:
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“Welcome to Porn for the Blind”
“Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.” The site is exactly what it says it is. And guess what?…
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“The Rumpus has the best sex work writing online.”
“I get that’s a pretty big statement, especially coming from a website that also publishes writing about sex work, but it’s true, and proper due should be given when deserved.” CarnalNation gives our sex work essays some serious love. (Thanks…
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Sorry, We’re Clothed
The Lusty Lady was a theatre. There was a live stage show, an old fashion peep show, and one-on-one sex shows in the Private Pleasures booth. There were video booths where you could watch porn like in an old arcade.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/26-8/1
This week, make your Monday, discover a microhood, Tourettes Without Regrets goes XXX, and The Mission has some more artsy block parties. Monday 7/26: Get yourself to the Fort Mason Center for Make My Monday, a gathering of artists, DJs,…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #45: Thwack, Thwack, Thwack
Give him a peek at whatever would make you slam the door shut if he walked in and caught you in front of the mirror.
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Evangelical, Pastor, Gay, Out… What Now?
Sometimes around dusk (I was probably six or seven years old), I would look out my bedroom window and see the sky turning orange and purple, and the setting sun turning red like blood, and I was sure the end…
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“I wanted to really shatter some of the stereotypes…”
Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and recent Rumpus Radio guest, talks with Twanna A. Hines over at SMITH mag and submits her own six-word memoir: “Met a real Prince. Disney lied.”
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #43: Unrolling
It’s time to unbind, my innocent little peach. It’s time to evolve.
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #5: The Gurus of Gash
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss Vs. The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida.
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The Man I Gave a Hand Job in West Hollywood Will Surely Blow His Brains Out Before I See Him Again
I was dumped over the phone by the man I’ve been dating for several months. I’d never had such an abrupt, hostile break up.