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Unmade Beds
“A brief history of fucking: “”We found each other.. when teen angst had the urge to yank
innocence’s hair, talk dirty in its ear.”
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Fear, Loathing and Feistiness in Writing about Sex
How to comprehend our own sexual complexities before they inevitably seep into the characters we wish to convey? How not to get it wrong? Must we confine ourselves to what ...
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: ON FREEDOM
Maggie Nelson’s new essay collection, On Freedom, reviewed.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
NEW YORK FAIRYTALE
A tourist has a one-night-stand in Central Park
Book Review: Adèle, by Leïla Slimani
A brilliant and troubling portrait of female sex addiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby
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Olympe de Gouges and the Rights of (Wo)man
“Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to”
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Lost Things and Missing Persons
She kissed him and said, “I want you to be the first.” He never asked her why. Of all the men she must have known, he couldn’t believe he ...
Boys Don’t
He had never done it before. The only time he had ever hit a girl’s face, by accident, was when he was five. He had merely meant to push his ...
Tracey Cox’s Literary Problem Page
Authors may expect us to buy the happy-ever-after ending, but seriously? Wives in the attic, cross-species love and a 2,000 year age gap? How long is it really going to ...
Denial: A Former Call Girl Shares Her Story
When I worked as a call girl, I relied on, and needed, denial to function in life. That denial was essential in order to work. To have sex with men ...
Lily
We walked across the street to the park. Some of our number dropped back, heading to the pub. They claimed they were too manly to go any longer without beer, ...
A Healthy Respect for Sex: What Lady Chatterley’s Lover Can Still Teach Us
“I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything ...
The Top 10 Weirdest Relationships in Literature
Cross-dressing, sodomy, blood-sucking and a touch of necrophilia. In this feature, novelist Rosie Garland picks her top ten weirdest relationships in literature. “The edge of things has always interested me ...
Litro #122: Sex, Magazine | Archives
Litro #122: Sex
Featuring stories from John Biggs, Simon Kearns, Stuart Snelson, Eli Goldstone, Simon Tonkin and Lauren Seidman.
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The Magnet and the Needle
She resented his apology for the display of power it was. The silence had been building for some miles, compressed by the confined space of the car, and it was ...
Litro #122: Sex, Travel&Lifestyle
Purple Bra
I am not interested in art but I am interested in sex, so after I first learned of Currin in a New Yorker profile in January, 2008, his name and ...
OK Cupid
“Do you like to listen to music during sex?” The website is asking me. I tick ‘no’. I think, who is listening to music during sex? I feel sorry for ...
Excerpt from The Writing Shed
Katja’s room was right at the top of the house; in fact it was set into the roof. The ceiling in the small room was comfortably low and the single, ...
Werewolf Night
Sleep always takes Jack by surprise now that he’s turned fifty. His legs can’t find a comfortable spot, his mind won’t turn off, he doesn’t feel as tired as he ...
The Recovery Position
Ever the stickler, he was the sort of man who bristled at the misuse of the word dilemma. Insistent upon correct usage, he never tired of pointing out to his ...