Pleasures

What is August? What is August not? Well, it depends on who you ask. Three photographers show what August is(n’t) to them.

Plangdi Neple explores the existential finances and impossible negotiations of sex amidst economic collapse in Nigeria.

Sexual freedom comes in many forms. For Robin Zabiegalski, it arrived in the bodies of other fat people.

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.