Pleasures

Readers exercise a democratic freedom by identifying with Milton’s seductive Satan rather than his rather wooden God, rewriting his work to find their own version of freedom in it. This was potentially no less true of Harry Potter.

"Indecision is a subby tendency, a refusal of sovereignty over your own life, but like submissive desire the goal is to get what you want without asking. What did I want?"

Sophie Mackintosh and Rebecca Jennings, author of Be the Bombshell: What Love Island Teaches Us About Dating, finally answer the question: Is it or isn’t it Friendship Island?

At an undisclosed location in East London, a group of lesbians and bisexuals escape the straight scope and explore the inherently kinky nature of wrestling.

Pineapple-as-code; Persephone’s pomegranate; the peach in "Call Me By Your Name"—fruit has long signaled deeper desire. Ruby Conway examines how.

Within the Catholic Church, many bodies make up the body of Christ, and those have always included a variety of gender expression. A closer look at the lives of the saints reveal a counternarrative that substantively challenges a gender-normative narrative.

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