Nonfiction

"Because we don’t talk about sex, we have no socially acceptable language of sex. And the language of porn has rushed in to fill that gap." [...continue...]

"You know, we believe you can change the world through sex. We’re working to make sex better for all of us. The world of business and tech is doing everything it possibly can to stop us. Where is the sense in that?" [...continue...]

I sat down with the co-creator and writer of M3 and The Unauthorized Biography of Winston Churchill: A Documentary, and writer on Marvel's Revenge: The Secret Origin of Emily Thorne, to talk about making comics independently, as a woman. We also discussed baked goods, salmon, her co-creators, keeping all your e-mails on your phone, and lots more! [...continue...]

I got so excited when I got it home that I started taking pictures. In hindsight, this was silly because the lighting was terrible, but you know what? I don't care. You're lookin' at 'em! [...continue...]

I promise that unless you're an indie pornographer yourself, you will probably learn something from that article. You'll also be privy to tidbits of interviews (the article was heavily edited down from my original 5,000-word draft) with Cindy Gallop, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Jiz Lee, Courtney Trouble, Shine Louise Houston, and several anonymous sources worldwide. [...continue...]

Bitch Magazine, Issue #64 Apologies, my lovely darling crumpets, for not writing you brilliant new blog posts more often! I am in the process of trying to find a new apartment in New York City, which anybody who makes less than a million dollars a year can tell you is pretty much the equivalent of [...continue...]

View from the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge. If you look closely, near the base of Freedom Tower, you can see a gold sculpture of Audrey Munson on top of the municipal building. Look her up.   Sometimes, New York makes me insane with anger, feeling like everything I do is futile, [...continue...]

Sometimes I fall into the all-too-common trap of not wanting to sound like a broken record of self-promotion. I mean, not that I want to be that guy who’s constantly promoting himself. But this is my website. I’m allowed to promote, right? And to be honest, right now I don’t have [...continue...]

My most successful article ever, on xoJane. …is one I wrote about one of the weirdest/scariest experiences of my life: the three years of college during which a sort-of friendship with a girl in my class slowly morphed from acquaintance to annoyance to creepiness to outright stalking. For [...continue...]

The cover of Issue #7 of Corset A piece of mine is publishing today in Corset Magazine–the magazine for all things sexual! The newest issue is “Sex Around the World,” and it’s all about sexual experiences and empowerment in different cultures. My essay is called [...continue...]