Essays

On IVF, kink, and delayed gratification.

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.

The acclaimed author of "Love Me Back" and a writer of "Orange is the New Black" shares her decades-long timeline of trying to make a television series about abortion.

All about spaces public, private, and everything in between. In this first installment, Anna Fitzpatrick writes about the spatial dimensions of loneliness.

Knights, nuns, Fleabag—they all know one thing: to kneel in front of another is to look at pleasure with new eyes.

Our new advice column features Mimi Zhu answering all your burning questions regarding affairs of the heart. In this first instalment, Mimi considers impact and impermanence.