An auto-ethnographic exploration of queer pleasure, gay pornography, and its intersections with representation and rope bondage as practice. 🔞 NSFW

All language comes from the body. ✨

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

permission to do what you love

Investigating extremism, analyzing politics, and offering insights and actions to strengthen democracy and justice.

cultural commentary from the desk of Don Shewey New York-based writer and reader, pleasure activist, queer theater scholar, proudly pervy sex educator, psychonaut, music hound, photographer, epicurean, Buddhist meditator, and Portuguese man of love

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

On survival, eros, art, and the scaffolding of resilience.

(C)ravings

A seasoned urban gay gives advice on the correlation between our hearts, minds, and hormones.

Poetry from the heart, to inspire, heal, explore, remind and connect.