From the Archive: Unbound
It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.
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Join NOW!It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.
...moreMy dad, a psychiatrist, wants to write a sex book.
...moreWhen was the first time you remember seeing yourself in a book you were reading?
...moreMelissa Faliveno discusses her debut essay collection, TOMBOYLAND.
...moreWhat appealed to me most about furry culture was how it created a space for softness to be worn on the outside.
...moreGreenwell tells his story on the narrator’s terms, and that makes all the difference.
...moreChris Dennis discusses his debut story collection, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.
...moreI didn’t belong on this planet. This kind of place could not be my home.
...moreI remember driving a bird mad once.
...more“Understanding that you can have what you desire can be healing and transformative.”
...more“We are all in bed with Daddy. Gendered expectations are part of our DNA.”
...moreMelanie Abrams discusses her debut novel, PLAYING, and a forthcoming novel, MEADOWLARK.
...moreRabih Alameddine discusses his newest novel, The Angel of History, surviving the AIDS epidemic, and the role of religion in his life and writing.
...moreThe pressure to prove ourselves can have a distorting effect, causing us to doubt our instincts in favor of following others we perceive to be experts or “genuine.”
...moreThe way I think about my writing is similar to the way I think about my kink—both have to do with history and the ethics around appropriation.
...moreTrauma steals meaning and expression. BDSM and writing create them.
...moreI am an emerging writer and fairly young kinkster. The letters on my keyboard are just starting to fade; the leather of my cuffs is just starting to crack.
...moreI discovered leather nearly fifteen years ago, at eighteen, right around the time I started writing.
...moreThis is how gay-male-identifying, biological women become straight chicks. Investigative journalism morphs into emotional memoir.
...moreNothing will ever be ordinary again.
...moreBDSM, like writing, can be so self-serious. By letting go of my formal commitment to both, I found ways to release my expectations, and as a result, let them back into my life in healthier and more fulfilling ways.
...morePoems and rope that make me plumb my depths and stretch my limits of my poetic language: that’s the worthwhile project.
...moreThere’s a connection between the longings of the characters I develop in my fiction and my urge to dominate.
...moreIn the final months of a nearly six-year BDSM relationship—the most satisfying relationship of my life—a line was crossed. My Master (a stripper and porn star at the time) violated my safe word, and I knew in that instant that it was the beginning of the end. Without warning he had confiscated my magic passport, […]
...moreBeing a dominant top in love means an ache—for someone to tend to, to take care of, to steer and supervise, to shape and to set free.
...moreI would go so far as to say that the entire reason I write is to detect all the irony that language allows and twist it around the truth like razor wire and ivy. That’s how I like my truth: twisted.
...moreIf I am a sub poet, is poetry as a genre my dom? Is the particular poem I’m working on my dom?
...moreLast month I reached out to LA-based expat Anna Span, an English porn producer (and one-time Liberal Democrat candidate) who awhile back, fought the UK’s ban on showing female ejaculation in porn—and won! I was anxious to hear her take on the recent crackdown on sadomasochistic practices in adult films, specifically whether “BDSM-themed art porn” […]
...moreYears ago when I worked at a house of domination in NYC’s Chelsea district, there were a handful of clients who were memorable for breaking up the run-of-the-mill fetish (foot worship, spanking, bondage, role playing, repeat) monotony. One was a dude I never saw, but only heard about whenever one of the few Mistresses capable […]
...moreNatasha Gornik’s photographs of people involved in New York’s BDSM scene capture the honesty and community that are essential to practicing kink. Check out her work here, and read about it on her blog.
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