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How to Find Local Kink Community and Also How to Hire a Sex Worker
“There’re contingencies of queer freaks everywhere, sometimes it just takes a little more effort.”
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Anonymous Sex Diary: A Couple Rekindles Their Sex Life with “Intimacy Boot Camp”
We’re both trying to avoid the lesbian bed death trope, hoping to be remembered in history as lovers, not “really good friends.”
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Help! My Friends Won’t Shut Up
Plus advice about leaving a controlling partner and getting second dates.
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Intimate Geographies: The Ecstasy of Filth
No one had ever made me feel small before, but Alice was six-two and could lift me like I was a potted plant.
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S L I C K: Raincheck Part 1
You are just picking up Naomi. Your very good friend, Naomi, whom you have only not-so-jokingly offered to take up on her not-so-joking offer to fuck for a decade. She literally just got emotionally gut punched by some fuckboy. Don’t be another fuckboy. Not today. Unless she initiates. Fuck, she always initiates. Fuck, I missed my exit.
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S L I C K: Wanna Cyber
Mostly I had chalked my ambivalence up to stifling antidepressants and emotional avoidance. Was I gutted of desire or was this a case of under exposure? Or was I supposed to own my simpleton truth and scream from a cliff, “I just want to dim the lights and be pegged, goddamnit!”
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S L I C K: Duckling
First I became a cloud-woman. Min had always liked watching them as a child, one of her only good memories from that period. I lifted up my skirts, let her lap up my water. Her mouth was covered in dew when I kissed her.
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For My Own Pleasure: Hiring a Sex Worker as a Queer Woman
“She kisses me. I hold on to her arms lightly, not wanting to hurt her, not wanting to weird her out, make her uncomfortable. She’s here for me: I’d hired her for exactly that, and she agreed to it, and she’s here.”
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A+ Mini-Roundtable: Oh, This Old Thing? It Used to Belong to My Ex
Finders keepers…
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A+ Roundtable: Misconceptions About Lesbian Sex
There was a time before time, in the yawning abyss of darkness and starfire that is the infinite and ever-expanding universe — a time before any of us had had lesbian sex. Most of us thought about it, though, or tried to imagine how it would work! We were not always correct.
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A+ Roundtable: What Makes You Good In Bed?
“I’m a Scorpio, this is kind of what we… do.”
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Masturbation Month and Beyond: A Staff Survey Experience
May is Masturbation Month! Here’s how the AS staff does it, featuring first time stories, all the weird places we’ve masturbated, how we feel about that and more.
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Love & Canada: No Admittance Except On Wedding Business
“There’re only 135 hours or so until I get to Los Angeles and I can feel every single one.”
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Gal Pal Chronicles: Rachel and Lizz Have Been Obsessed With Each Other Since Roughly 2008
Rachel: “The writing & philosophy class I was required to take freshman year mostly sucked. But there was this one girl, Lizz, who seemed cool. She wore comic book tshirts and had beautiful shiny hair. One day after class, I announced to a friend, ‘Lizz is not straight. I can just tell.'”
Lizz: “There was something about Rachel that I just couldn’t shake. She spent a lot of time quoting feminist theorists who I’d never heard of and she had what I would later come to call ‘Congenital Gay Face.'” -
Love & Canada: Life Finds A Way (To Get In The Way)
“I spent a few minutes wondering whether that means we should be married faster, i.e., the day after whenever I get there, and then I looked at the calendar and realized the timeline is as tight as it can be (and maybe too tight as it is) and I took a really deep breath and anyway it’s probably going to be fine. But it was one of those moments where it felt a little more like leaving Canada is giving something up.”
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Love & Canada: A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action
“I am still crying an amount that for me is significantly higher than average, what’s up with that?”
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Love & Canada: My Lesbian Immigration Marriage Feelings, Part 1
The thing about my future immigration marriage is that it’s an immigration marriage but not an IMMIGRATION marriage. I still don’t want to know what save the dates are though.
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Love & Canada: The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
“When I woke up Saturday I was going to get a lot of stuff done and I was just pretty focused on that and by mid Sunday afternoon I had cried for about 12 of my weekend waking hours.”
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Love & Canada: Immigration Station
“I’ve never had a move that felt so little like being jolted from one space to another and so much like something clicking into place.”
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Love & Canada: Just So Much Canada
“After explaining who Shannon was in relation to me, we were let in to go through airport-like security around 7:40, I was handed a laminated piece of paper with ‘Applicant 1’ on it and an accompanying feeling of having won at waiting in line, and we were let up to the floor for the interview at 8.”