These photos investigate the connection between pleasure and pain, and how kink can blur the line between where the body ends and the brain begins.

Wasteland Weekend, the largest post-apocalyptic festival, is filled with cool cars, intricate costumes, bartering and bounty hunters. Come one, come all, but no jeans or tortoise shell glasses allowed.

The largest leather festival in the world brings butts, boobs and spanking to Folsom street in San Francisco.

Our number one feeling is always Alex Vega.

This month we visit Club Drizzy, Heather gets punched in the face by a racist stranger at the airport, we pause to admire new merch, B wants to interview her not-ex-girlfriend and WHO WILL BE THE BUTT OF OUR GENERATION?

It’s the second issue of the best little behind-the-scenes newsletter EVER.

“ANAL-ytics. Please don’t use that I am not serious.”

“It was like throwing a tennis ball at a wall and expecting it to bounce back but against all odds it gets stuck in the bricks.”

“Ugh I’m gonna run through the six with my woes and it’s gonna be so good for instagram.”

HOW DARE YOU BE SO ON TOP OF THINGS

“I want you to know that three different people in my life sent me this video the day it dropped. I have not been the same since.”

No one had ever made me feel small before, but Alice was six-two and could lift me like I was a potted plant.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer teams up with Mayor Bette Porter to save lesbians in Los Angeles from vampires on New Year’s Eve.

“38. welcome to sex.com!”

“can we call lesbian visibility day lesbian brigadoon”

“I’m eating a candy cane and drinking wine and am like WOW I GUESS I NEVER LEAVE NOW”

Your late 20s/early 30s are thought by many to mark your Saturn Return, when Saturn circles back around to the placement it was in when you were born, and generally fucks everything up. Here’s how that went for us!

Our BIGGEST ADVICE BOX EVER! Highlights include: tips for lesbian sex on an airplane, helping others to use your correct pronouns, how to survive a family holiday, getting over your first high school heartbreak, getting out of an abusive relationship, finding new friends as a queer adult, and dental dams! Just to name a few!

*Law and Order sound* these are our stories — Autostraddle staffers share how they personally identify (or don’t!) and why.

Sex: it’s complicated! Some people like some things and other people like other things and some people love things other people do not like at all!