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Dirty or Clean?

  • Emily Rapp Black
  • December 2, 2012
I felt like an arrow of sheer desire, flying through the air in a small town and emblazoned with this unfortunate tag line: “Newly single mother of a dying baby.”
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Jane Fondas I Have Known

  • Devan Goldstein
  • October 18, 2012
However I came to possess the magazine, I looked at it often, if with a smoldering shame. Unlike what I could find on television, the pictures were clear and shiny, and seeing women in bikinis showed me parts of the female body I had never seen before—the dimpled lower back, the tendon in the crook between inner thigh and crotch.
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Donna

  • Zoë Ruiz
  • September 21, 2012
I developed my first and only porn star crush on Princess Donna. I watched her videos and read her blog and imagined that one day we would meet and she would publicly disgrace me like she publicly disgraced models.
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Facing Sex Addiction: A John Comes Clean

  • Antonia Crane
  • September 20, 2012
“Mike” contacted me for advice about the stripper he was seeing after he’d read my column on The Rumpus. He told me that when his wife was diagnosed with pancreatic…
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“You Are Your Lover’s Kink”

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • July 25, 2012
In writing about the “complexities of desire, objectification and fetishization,” Vivienne Chen gives the Rumpus some love. Chen quotes Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott — who argues that “there is no…
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Who’s having a good time?

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • July 6, 2012
Sarah Woolley takes a closer look at boundary-pushing on film, and articulates why she winces through Hollywood sex scenes and not porn. “…Being mindful of what media we consume, in…
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Women Better at Sex Writing?

  • Charley Locke
  • June 12, 2012
Martin Amis, whose new novel made it onto the PW Best Summer Books list, explained to his audience at the Hay Festival that “women write better about sex.” “As a…
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Never Look Away

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 14, 2012
“Who will protect us in this town, I think. There are skinheads and KKK people and bullies. There are dogs that run snarling to the edge of their yards when…
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What About Men?

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • April 20, 2012
“Many men who turn to submissive fantasies do so for precisely the sort of vacation from responsibility that Roiphe suggests women are seeking.” At Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory gathers the input…
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The Secret About

  • Anonymous
  • March 15, 2012
Last weekend I rode the subway towards two indulgent firsts: I spent half of my latest paycheck in a swanky, mirror-lined restaurant with a coat check, and then I walked…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Lyon Bell

  • Jennifer Kabat
  • February 8, 2012
Jennifer Lyon Bell makes porn with a humanistic approach, designed to get viewers to identify with the characters, not just watch them. She combines the visual quality of art films…
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Depressing Sex: An Essay in Pictures

  • Jason Novak
  • December 22, 2011
Artist Jason Novak brings us his tale “Depressing Sex: An essay in pictures.” Enjoy:
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