from “Reproduction” by Megan Rich
When the clinician inserted the tent of seaweed into my cervix, a practice as outdated as Japan’s...
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“The Ideal Reader” by Juliana Gray
Who is your ideal reader? a lit mag asked,and after careful thought, I decidedit’s Daniel Craig,...
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“Matrilineage” by Dāshaun Washington
Text: before there was manthere was mother and the sweetinfinince of her chorus mother of heaven,...
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“Foundling” by Tara Fee
Although I have now lived inside the ivory tower for longer than I ever lived outside it, my...
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“Greek Chorus” by Keetje Kuipers
Having nottouched myselfin some timeowing tothe erosionof incrementalsadnessesthat can detacha...
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“Tending the Garden” by Jessica Nirvana Ram
My mother tells me my grandmother has begun to touchherself. Dress up, hands between her legs,...
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The Inward Pull and Pulsation: On the Erotics of Faylita Hicks’s A Map of My Want and Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle
Dorothy Chan on books by Faylita Hicks and Michael Chang that use sex in poetry to challenge norms.
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“Breakwater”: On the Craft of Sex in Poetry
Poet Keetje Kuipers on the art of writing about self-pleasure.
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Writing Sex
Jonathan Alexander on the craft of writing sex in nonfiction, looking at books by Zachary Zane and Tina Horn.
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Middle Age Has Never Been So Sexy: Role Play and Erotic Binaries in All Fours
Gwen E. Kirby on Miranda July’s latest novel and its radical act of depicting a sexual middle-aged woman.
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