S L I C K: Constellations #3 Bennett & Reina Turn Concrete to Sand

S L I C K is an erotica series for A+ members about titillation, torture, fucking and getting off.

This is the third installment of the erotica series Constellations, about finding and keeping kink connections and navigating polyamorous love. 
Content notes: flogging, restraints, penetration

Reina was Bennett’s longest running play partner. They met at a queer burlesque night in 2005 when Bennett was performing a heavily choreographed lip sync with two other butches and one genderqueer femme to “My Humps," and Reina surprised everybody by singing “Don’t Cha," over a karaoke track, even the Busta Rhymes parts. She came out in a long-haired silver wig, curls bou...

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Sinclair Sexsmith

Sinclair Sexsmith (they/them) is “the best-known butch erotica writer whose kinky, groundbreaking stories have turned on countless queer women” (AfterEllen), who “is in all the books, wins all the awards, speaks at all the panels and readings, knows all the stuff, and writes for all the places” (Autostraddle). ​Their short story collection, Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica, was a 2016 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Sinclair identifies as a white non-binary butch dominant, a survivor and an introvert. Follow their writings at Sugarbutch Chronicles.

Sinclair has written 43 articles for us.