Criticism

A retired prostitute takes on Nick Kristof, and wins.

Dear Dan: you’re almost always right, except when you tell people to leave — because they’ll just find the same person again.

I can’t get hard reading erotica by someone I can’t imagine fucking.

I don’t review porn, but this morning I stumbled on something I need to share.

A graphic novel about being a john, found on a neighbor’s doorstep — and what it gets right, and wrong, about the humanity of paying for sex.

James Deen is pretty much my sexual role model. But I have some notes.

Sasha Grey changed everything for me about porn.

This entire blog is nothing but my mortification — and yet, asked for one embarrassing story, I’ve got nothing.

A visual history of pubic hair I wish I’d included the first time around.

A tour of the rub-and-tug establishments of my past, from the grim to the almost classy.