Sex
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Rock and Roll, Harems, and Modern Love
Author and Rumpus contributor Jillian Lauren has written an excellent “Modern Love” column for the New York Times: “Finding Marriage Without Losing a Self.” Jillian’s story is a unique one, she lived in Borneo as a member of a royal…
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Not Safe For Work
Today, I realize the truth — that it is not sex work that society fears is dangerous, but sex workers. I recently had the experience at my job of being warned by a colleague that other coworkers have begun Googling…
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #4: Bumpin’ Uglies with the Beautiful People
Today’s battle pits Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion by Izabella St. James against How To Have A XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid Guide by the Vivid Girls.
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Oh So Furry: The Rumpus Interview with Kilcodo
Kilcodo is a friend of mine; she makes a living making full-body fursuits for other furries. She also moonlights as a lemur. The other night she let me interview her, and get to know her lemur persona, Bingo.
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The Exit Interview: A Conversation with My Ex-Boyfriend
At first, I loved Dan from a distance. Judging on a bell-curve, I was attractive for my high school debate team, but otherwise, I was far from his type of girl. And yet, that one day on the quad, he…
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #3: Ladies Gotta Get Some
Today’s book battle pits The Surrender by Toni Bentley against The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet.
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #2: Porn Takes It on the Chin
Today’s book battle pits Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women against Nadine Strossen’s Defending Pornography:
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #38: Romantic Love Is Not a Competitive Sport
Some of those women your boyfriend used to fuck have nicer asses than you.
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #1:
Battle of the BlowjobsMasterclass: Blow-Jobs vs. Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man One book is concise and British, complete with allegedly helpful pictures of female mouths on penises. The other, a chatty manual that uses phrases like “Mr. Softee” and…
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“Big man wanted for long, deep, throbbing bone worship.”
“I wished it was a joke. An exception. Something. But oh so unfortunately, there were a lot of somethings. Turns out there were many people who wanted to engage in bone worship, and not the cross cultural, Iranian-American, funny-poignant, coming-of-age…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/24-5/30
This week, Monday gets more tolerable with cocktails and local art at Make My Monday, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher takes over El Rio, demystify the history of the Wiggle with ThinkWalk, and celebrate National Masturbation Month at the San…
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MetaFilter to the Rescue
“The message thread reads like the play-by-play from an alternate reality game, wherein complete strangers work together to solve a complex mystery. But the drama that played out on MetaFilter this week was no game. If not for the intrepid…