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Oiseau
Read moreShe reminded me of a bird — tiny, fragile, shivering when I placed my hand on her throat.
Abandonment on tinder
Read moreShe showed me everything, promised me more, and then vanished — not even a goodbye, just the silent void of a disappeared Tinder thread.
Sex trafficking
Read moreAn unfinished, scattered meditation on sex trafficking — what I know, what I don’t, and the joyless workplaces that aren’t limited to the sex industry.
A first date
Read moreMy presumption is that you’re a slut who’s going to do exactly as I say.
Fucking tinder
Read moreTinder, once again, has decided I can’t be trusted to talk to people.
Paean
Read moreA woman I can’t stop watching, even when I should.
Paean
Read moreA woman on the subway, described in obsessive, reverent detail.
Paean
Read moreA portrait of a woman on the subway.
Two more dissolutes – october
Read moreHy and I are back with two more dissolute picks, and I have some thoughts about Cande’s posts on sex tourism and paying for sex.
Two dimensions of peril
Read moreSofia’s right: I really am difficult. The two dangers of being desired — having instead of getting, and being wanted in the wrong amount.
Writing by a sex worker
Read moreA sex worker writes about her experience, and it reads like the flip side of mine.
Rip tinder? (or, “good riddance, tinder”?)
Read moreTinder kicked me off, and I’m left with more women than I can handle and less appetite than I’d have predicted.
Multiple paeans
Read moreThe subway provides, even when I’m not looking.
Poly pals
Read morePolyamory goes mainstream — or at least, mainstream enough for a kids’ show.
Closure
Read moreI don’t disappear on people. I say good-bye. I wish more people extended me the same courtesy.
Another orgasm
Read moreListen, as Penelope comes for me.
Anonymity and tinder
Read moreFacebook wants to tell your friends you use Tinder. You might want to do something about that.
Anonymity and tinder
Read moreFacebook and Tinder have teamed up to deny me the right to exist anonymously in their ecosystem, and I’m annoyed — even if my dance card is, at the moment, full.
Paean
Read moreA woman, described.
Tinder woes
Read moreI hate it when Tinder decides I’m undesirable. Not when WOMEN on Tinder decide it, but when the app itself does.
