Sex
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Science Saturday
Tasmanian Devils may wind up extinct, and not due to humans driving them out of their habitat. The culprit is a contagious cancer. The British NHS claims sex is good for you. Yet another argument for universal health care? The…
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The Leather Daddy And The Femme
There is not enough nice things you can say about the incredible varieties of sexual diversity in San Francisco. I think as Bay Area folk it’s easy to take it for granted. But all the same I find endless reasons…
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Sleeper’s Wake
John Wraith’s penis is a neat literary device. It provides character depth and motivation, and is central to every plot twist in the book.
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Are We Talking About Sex Differently?
My girlfriend is reading Henry Miller, we’re applying for food stamps and I’m having nightmares about children having died in my house. I spent the last weekend partying in Al Capone’s old hideout. And woke up to find myself waiting…
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The Rumpus Interview with Alasdair Gray
Writer and artist Alasdair Gray is his own best nightmare. It took the modern Scottish bard twenty-five years to finish Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981), his fat, strangely inspirational novel of urbanism gone awry.
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Sex, Death, Facebook
I do not know this boy. He’s a friend of a Facebook friend—some girl I hated in high school, and friended so I could see how wrong her life had gone.
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Sex and the Witty
There’s Something Wrong with Sven combines imaginative leaps worthy of Calvino and Vonnegut with tragicomic irreverence of the George Saunders variety.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames
Maybe my work isn’t a cry for help. It may just be a baby’s need to cry or a dog’s need to bark.
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David Cronenberg’s First Feature Film
I watch movies so people will show me the things that make me flinch, question myself, curse the heavens, and want to enroll in primal scream therapy. I don’t think I read for the same reasons. But movies, I feel,…
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How to Write Sex Scenes: The 12-Step Program
Give us the reddened stubble in the crease of a debutante’s groin, or the minute trembling of a banker’s underlip.
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Jonathan Ames Talks Sex, Frivolity, and Egocentrism
Rumpus contributor Jonathan Ames recently got interviewed by a little magazine called Time. Clearly this upstart Time rag is hopping on the Rumpus’ pro-Ames bandwagon, but we won’t begrudge them. How can you NOT want to learn more about a…
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Condomless Porn – They’re Making It Cause You’re Asking for It
Sex educator and writer Lux Alptraum, who is also the editor of Boinkology, has an article in Black Book that investigates the absence of condoms in porn. Is it because of production challenges, or because the companies don’t want to…