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On being a slut
Read moreDefinitions: Slut: a person who sleeps with more people than I do. Slut: a person who sleeps with my friends, but not with me. Slut: a person who sleeps with more people than most. What’s your definition? Up above, on…
Guilt
Read moreI’ve been thinking about guilt. (I often do – it’s an interesting subject to me.) What is guilt? When I say, “I feel guilty about how I treated her,” what do I mean? Do I mean, “If I had it…
Dishonesty
Read moreHow does an otherwise honorable person lie? And not a little white lie, but the kind of major, character-defining lie that any of us who is, or has been, a cheating piece of shit (CPOS), has told the people we…
Open letter to dan savage
Read moreYou are one of my gurus. Probably, the one who has influenced me most. And I’m a guy with some real gurus. You are great, give great sex and relationship advice, and write great books (The Kid may well be…
Burlesque
Read moreWhat is it about burlesque that I don’t like? I know I’m supposed to like it. It’s what we intelligent, feminist, sex-positive people are supposed to want our stripping ladies (and gents) to look like, to do. The gradual, oh-so-artful,…
On reading erotica
Read more“Have you read Love and Kink, by Guy New York?” “No, should I?” “Sooooo good…. Shocked at how good it was.” “But here’s the problem: I just don’t get turned on reading something by someone I can’t imagine fucking.” This…
Four ways of looking at jealousy (apologies to wallace stevens)
Read moreI’ve written about jealousy before, and I fear I have little new to add on the subject, but it’s feeling salient, so I guess I’ll do one of my periodic revisitations of the subject. Here is how I experience jealousy:…
I’m offensive
Read moreHere’s an experience. Perhaps you’ve had it. Me? It happens to me shockingly often. I write something. It might be a general something. It might be a tweet or “subtweet.” Maybe it’s a little sarcastic. More often, it’s not. More…
On being sexy, ill, and blogging
Read moreLiza wrote the other day about some problems she’s been having, both with sex and with writing. (And then, promptly, followed with a bunch of characteristically great posts, about burlesque, about gentle sex with her husband and the smell of…
Some things i like, on a rainy day
Read moreWet hair Rubber boots Black leggings Frizzy hair Clinging cotton Cutoff shorts Hats Dishevelment, generally