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On Britney’s Instagram, Selfies & the Mercurial Need to Be Perceived
I spend a fair amount of time defending women’s selfies in my head. Whenever I see comments on Instagram photos accusing women of “just wanting attention” or being “attention whores” because of the…
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Review: WeVibe Melt, Compared to Womanizer Starlet & Dame Aer
I’ve wanted a WeVibe Melt for years. I was dying to bring the (magically, orgasmically) unique sensations of a suction toy into partnered sex, but the other ones I have just don’t work…
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Revisiting CAM Five Years Later
I was just rewatching the brilliant film CAM (2018) yesterday – about a camgirl whose identity is stolen – and I was struck by how incredibly prescient the movie was when it first…
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Ode to the Slutty Halloween Costume
“In girl world, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” That quote is uttered by…
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Songs Are Spells, or, You Make Me Want You
The other night, I fell into a deep, velvety-dark hole of nostalgia. It began with a few Christina Aguilera music videos (the Dirrty years), which led me to Avril Lavigne (and her most…
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Love in the End Times: Two Poems
You may not know this, but sometimes I also write poetry; I even have a poetry book you can buy if you’re interested. Here are two poems about love and the end times,…
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I Wrote This Stoned at 2PM on a Tuesday
I haven’t slept well in 2.5 years. About six months after we moved into our last apartment, we got new neighbors above us. Neighbors who never slept, nor removed their boots, in a…
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On Girls and Goths in the Early Aughts
I think horror was always a part of my identity, lurking somewhere deep in my bones, long before I realized it. All things being relative, coming of age during the early aughts as…
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Sexy Books Podcast: The Magic Necklace with Claire Napier
In this episode, I chatted with comics editor, critic, and cartoonist Claire Napier to discuss her new horror-romance comic, The Magic Necklace: Ann-Rita’s acting differently since she came back, because she’s not afraid…
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Why You Should Take Naked Pics of Yourself, Now
(This post is for adults, 18+ please.) Sometime after I hit my thirties, I began to love my body—to appreciate it, and enjoy it—in a way that I’d never been able to when…
