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From the Archive: Unbound

  • Lauren Kayes
  • January 18, 2022
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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Pick Your Pleasure: Talking with Liz Asch

  • Alex Behr
  • September 22, 2021
Liz Asch discusses her new book, YOUR SALT ON MY LIPS.
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On Love and Dogs: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

  • Carley Moore
  • February 12, 2020
Greenwell tells his story on the narrator’s terms, and that makes all the difference.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Broder

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • May 16, 2018
Melissa Broder discusses her debut novel, The Pisces (Hogarth, May 2018), the importance of love between women, and mermaid sex.
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How Amazon Is Making Sex a Dirty Word

  • Steph Auteri
  • April 9, 2018
"[A]s long as we retain all of these conflicting ideas of what sex is, and what it means to us, sex will always sell—until it's inconvenient."
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Good Sex (Writing)

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • October 19, 2016
If you aren’t yet familiar with the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award… you’re welcome. The Erotic Review, however, thinks we should celebrate good sex writing instead, according to Ryan Harrington…
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Bad Sex (Scenes)

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • June 16, 2016
Are sex scenes in books always bad? At The Millions, Drew Nellis Smith muses on poorly written depictions of passion, why authors so often leave out the messier details, and his own…
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Erotica Illustrated

  • Michelle Vider
  • February 16, 2016
For Hyperallergic, Claire Voon tours the New York Public Library’s collection of historical erotica, ranging from 15th century illustrations of eroticized mythological scenes to risqué 19th century photographs kept safe…
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The Queen of Steam

  • Claire Burgess
  • February 27, 2015
“I was like, Either I’m a sexual deviant, which is always a possibility, or they’re wrong,” says Engler of publishers’ reluctance to print raunchy material. She sips from a can…
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Writing Erotica for Money

  • Guia Cortassa
  • February 12, 2015
Once the story was actually finished, and there was no money to be made, all ambition tied to it evaporated, and now I’m left pretty much where I began. Ruthlessly…
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The Rumpus Interview with Tomi Ungerer

  • Allyson McCabe
  • January 21, 2015
Writer and illustrator Tomi Ungerer discusses his exile in Ireland, being a target of censorship, and his work's recent resurgence of popularity in the US.
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Sperm Puppets All

  • Roxie Pell
  • October 14, 2014
Writing and sex have a lot in common, least enjoyable their knack for making participants feel vulnerable and insecure. But when anything goes, writers produce work that is beautiful for…
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