Text Me When You’re Done: Tampopo

The ideal date movie exists, and it has a scene where two people pass an egg yolk back and forth into each other’s mouths. With the potential for pleasure hanging in the air, Tampopo is the perfect prelude. 

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Text Me When You’re Done: Moulin Rouge! 

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

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

The forgotten history of Clit Club

Text me when you're done: Autobiography of Red

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.

Text me when you’re done: A Room with a View

They love to suck. Vivian Medithi on the undying allure of a toothy monster.

Text me when you’re done: Erotics of the vampire

Spy movies are low-key romance movies. 

On romantic amnesia and Jason Bourne

Sophie Mackintosh considers the powerplay of a favorite novel.

Text me when you’re done: A Heart So White

Lola Kolade on the nostalgic love lessons of a classic Canadian teen drama.

Text Me When You’re Done: Degrassi: The Next Generation 

djenneba drammeh looks at the horizon as a metaphor for yearning.

Text me when you’re done: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

John Belknap sees the sun shimmer as it rises.

Erogenous zones: Sexshine at the afters

Ami Xherro on the feminist Renaissance poet who made love into her equal.

Text me when you're done: The desires of Louise Labé

Karim Kazemi on the exquisite melodrama of a 1985 Ann Beattie novel.

Text me when you’re done: Love Always

Sophie Kemp presses repeat on a song that sounds like being in love.

Text Me When You’re Done: The The, "This is the Day"

Text Me When You’re Done: A case for aftertaste

John Belknap wants you to listen to Charli XCX with conviction, baby.

Text me when you’re done: Charli XCX

Text me when you’re done: An Ordinary Miracle 

Anya Tchoupakov on a fever-dream of a musical fairytale and everyday magic.

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