Pleasures

On IVF, kink, and delayed gratification.

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

H Felix Chau Bradley on flirtation and connection through scent

“It was total sexual freedom. You just haven’t felt it since.”

Weakness is not shame. Naomi Gordon-Loebl makes a case for Anne Carson’s retelling of Hercules as queer manic pixie dream boy.

Fran Hoepfner on learning that having a crush on vacation is life-ruining and delightful, that having big hair is an inevitability, and that Beethoven is somehow always involved.

A first date that never ends | Feeld

Randhir Singh, the founder of Subculture, is channeling India’s erotic history and upending sexual norms left in the wake of colonialism.

“Is there really no sexual excitement without at least a frisson, a pleasurable ache?” asks Daphne Merkin, a writer whose decades-long career may very well center on this very question.

An anatomy of communal desire.

Past the talking stage is the reading stage. Ed Luker looks between the lines to find out what makes sharing words with new and old lovers so titillating.

On Stanley Cavell and Hollywood’s romantic legacy.