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essays, health

The Origin of Pain

Part I How to begin. That’s always the question with chronic health problems. Do I begin fifteen, twenty years ago? I could. Or I could start ten years ago, when…

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April 15, 2024
essays, film

My Favorite F***ing Movie: All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

I have Covid right now—get vaccinated kiddos, it’s still a thing!—so I wasn’t able to finish the essay I had planned on posting this month. Instead, enjoy this essay that…

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April 1, 2025
essays, film

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…

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June 16, 2023
essays, film

My Favorite F***ing Movie: Only Lovers Left Alive

My mom died last October and ever since—and despite being a pretty skeptical agnostic most of my life—I haven’t been able to help imagining some sort of afterlife. The possibility…

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February 28, 2025
essays, film

New Essay Series: My Favorite F***ing Movie

I’m very excited to announce a new essay series I’ll be releasing monthly all year long: My Favorite F***ing Movie is a personal exploration of sex through film, and Go…

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January 30, 2025
  • Claire Napier next to the cover for her comic, The Magic Necklace.
    Podcast

    Sexy Books Podcast: The Magic Necklace with Claire Napier

    / April 9, 2023

    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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  • SLR camera on a pink background.
    how-to

    Why You Should Take Naked Pics of Yourself, Now

    / April 9, 2023

    (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…

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  • Natracare's organic cotton period products, including; tampons, applicator tampons, pads, curved panty liners
    health

    Why Are There So Few Safe Options for Menstrual Care?

    / April 2, 2023

    We all know that medical research for women lags embarrassingly far behind other medical research. Take this example: The myth that the clitoris has 8,000 nerve endings comes from a study on cows…

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  • birth control,  health

    No Pills, Plz: Why I’m Done with Birth Control Pills

    / March 14, 2023

    It feels a bit wrong to be writing anything that criticizes birth control methods these days—considering the state of women’s rights in the U.S. and the obliteration of Roe v. Wade, we need…

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  • Mood board for horror/romance novel.
    Writing

    A Horrormance Novel Mood Board

    / February 2, 2023

    I haven’t posted here in a bit, mostly because I’ve been working on a horror/romance novel for a couple of months now, and it’s the most fun I’ve had writing anything in years…

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  • Podcast

    Sexy Books Podcast: The Body Horror Christmas Special

    / December 20, 2022

      In today’s very special episode of the Sexy Books Podcast, we open with a chat about what Blythe has been up to for the last year: Having a baby! We get deep…

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  • reviews

    Recommendation: How to Build a Sex Room on Netflix

    / September 3, 2022

    “So you want to build a sex room.” That’s how interior designer and host Melanie Rose begins most conversations with her clients on the new Netflix show, How to Build a Sex Room.…

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  • A set of differently colored dilators with two small vibrators and a bottle of lube.
    health,  how-to

    Dilating 101

    / July 7, 2022

    This is not intended to be medical advice; please consult with your doctor before beginning a dilating regimen. When I got diagnosed with vulvodynia and vaginismus, the most alarming part was finding out…

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  • essays,  Personal

    A Feminine Manifesto

    / July 2, 2022

    It’s been four whole years since I published my first (and thus far, only) book. Four years that feel like a lifetime and a blink simultaneously. Four years that I look back on…

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