The next time anyone mentions “self-care” to you, perhaps you should consider increasing your life satisfaction by engaging in some hand-to-gland combat. There’s no question that porn gets a lot of things wrong about sex. These days, we can’t throw a nipple clamp out of a window without it landing on a study claiming porn is ruining humanity in […]
I began to understand how often sadness sounds like anger. I used to do professional phone sex. I used my words to create feeling, to create action, connection. As a result, I saw some of the ways sexual excitement and racism intersect. I learned about the human condition, witnessed the way we abandon our undeveloped […]
I want to celebrate my beauty and my body and my whole self as I am, not as I wish I were. When my memoir Stripping Down was published in 2012, I thought I would be done with needing to talk about my risqué younger life, which included stripping and nude modeling. I would be […]
