Essays

An anatomy of communal desire.

What does your fragrance say about how you love? Where astrology and Meyers-Briggs only go so far, Maddie Phinney shows us how the sillage of your scent reveals all.

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

Romance and revolution in 2025’s zodiac

What are your pre-date rituals?

How do you prefer to bend time? We choose foreplay, every time.

On Stanley Cavell and Hollywood’s romantic legacy.

“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.

Homesexual is a column devoted to interiors and interiorities. For the first installment, Emanuele Coccia considers what homes are, and what our experience of moving says about how we love.

Four men—and a chorus of masculine voices—share their histories with bisexuality and experiences as Feeld Members.

Long before Call Me By Your Name and his prolific career as one half of Merchant Ivory, James Ivory escaped the temperamental Oregonian winters for the desert. Here, he revisits his adolescent sojourns in Palm Springs, a site of a sensual coming-of-age