If you’re a film buff you are likely aware of Pillion, a film that just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18. The film stars Henry Melling and Alexander Skarsgard. It’s about a gay BDSM relationship, and Skarsgard plays the motorcycle-riding dom character, a fact that will surely please many of his fans. According […]
12 Virgins get sent to an island…
Channel 4 – a British public-service broadcaster out of the United Kingdom – has produced a new reality TV show that follows 12 virgins who get sent to an island to face their virginity and tap into their desires – aka: get laid. Therapists, intimacy coaches, and other “professionals” are available to help the virgins […]
New Biography on Marsha P. Johnson
Dear readers, take note that on May 20, 2025 Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline is available for purchase. This new work is a biography of beloved transcestor Marsha P. Johnson who was a prominent gay liberation activist and drag queen living in New York City in the 1960s and […]
Histories of sex and sexuality are uber useful right now
Historian Rebecca L. Davis’s Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America was published last year, but journalist Marty Moss-Coane aired a wonderful interview with Davis on her radio show The Connection just last week. We think it’s well worth your time. Davis’ project is an in-depth and vast accounting of sexual […]
“Orgasms are a marvelous happiness”. Shere Hite gave voice to female sexuality in a landmark book – but the backlash was fierce
“Orgasm is the ultimate pleasure – which women often deny themselves, but men never do,” claimed one.
HARD COPY: Remembering a landmark book at the intersection of orgasms, feminism, and patriarchal fragility Orgasms are physiological treats, yes, but they also are productive pedagogues. Their valuable lessons contain insights into what one can do with bodies and desires, as well as revelations about sexual subjects’ broader relationships to sexuality and culture. Camilla Nelson, […]
Michelle Williams’ Superb ‘Dying for Sex’ Is a Defiantly Joyful Tale of Terminal Cancer and BDSM: TV Review
“It’s a bodily process,” a hospital worker tells cancer patient Molly (Michelle Williams) of her impending death. “Like having an orgasm.”
HARD COPY: Cancer, BDSM, and a recommendation – ‘Dying for Sex’ We are more than just theory whores and policy nerds. We actually watch TV too. Heck, we even get out to the occasional film and noodle around in the occasional video game. It would be irresponsible of us – a green journalistic enterprise primed […]
Debating Pronouns with John McWhorter:
HARD COPY: Pronoun trouble John McWhorter is an esteemed professor of linguistics at Columbia University. His latest book PRONOUN TROUBLE: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words was released on April 1, 2025. In it McWhorter establishes pronouns as both historical and dynamic. Like language in general, McWhorter shows how pronouns are adaptable cultural […]