Why Everyone Is a Little Bit Queer
Queer, before it was associated with the LGBT community, meant simply: strange, peculiar, unusual, out of the ordinary. Implicit in this meaning is the fact that most people, in most…
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Mistress of Murder
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to Kat Rosenfield about her novel, You Must Remember This and about nostalgia, suspense and the process of writing. The…
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Advancing Our Knowledge About Sex
Bisexual people, transgender individuals, adult babies and diaper lovers, furries, gynandromorphophiles (men attracted to trans women with penises), pedophiles, voluntary eunuchs and straight crossdressers—I have studied them all. To what…
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The Colour Purple: Bisexual Representation
In the past few years, a phenomenon I call purple washing has grown uncomfortably common. Even though the term is new, the practice of selectively representing bisexual people and issues…
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Why Trigger Warnings Won’t Help (and May Harm) Vulnerable People
Most of the time, humans can overcome adversity. Most recover from even the ugliest traumas and vilest human experiences—war, rape, domestic violence, natural disasters—without lasting psychological damage. Remarkably, we have…
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Nev March: History and Mystery
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to novelist Nev March about her latest book, Peril at the Exposition, an intricately plotted and lushly descriptive historical…
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Why You May Not Be as Kinky As You Think
At one time or another, everyone has discovered that being told not to do something only serves to make us want to do it even more. It is a basic…
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Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Aesthetics and the Perception of Accuracy
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” —John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) In recent decades, empirical studies…
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Feminist in the Streets, Chauvinist in the Sheets: Politics and the Bedroom
When my wife was in graduate school, it gave her enormous pleasure to go to class with her arse so sore from my spankings that I stayed on her mind…
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Artificial Intelligence, the Public and the Pope
According to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research report by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo, 50–70% of changes to wage structures in the US over the last four decades…
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The Depressing New Corporate Metaverse
A Review of Luis Bravo Martins’ and Samantha G. Wolfe’s Metaversed: See Beyond the Hype (December 2022) The term metaverse was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 sci-fi novel…
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The Sex Researcher and the Furries
Research is hard. Sex research is even harder. The first and most obvious challenge is the taboo that sex still carries in most of the world. After doing this work…
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Marxist Professors and Brainwashed Students: Charlie Kirk’s “The College Scam”
The irritable conservative college memoir, which argues that tertiary education is ruining the US, is a tired minor genre to which everyone from William F. Buckley Jr. to Dinesh D’Souza…
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Techno-Immortality
Technology has now made us immortal. Stored in the cloud, on smartphones, on YouTube channels and on social media accounts, there is an easily accessible record of everything we have…
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Sex versus Gender
The queer community is known for its open-mindedness and positivity. It is among the first to share sex-positive articles and body-positive memes, and to loudly shout from the rooftops that…
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Weird Japan: Western Critiques of Anime and Manga
In 2021, I wrote about the successes of Japan’s manga and anime industries for this magazine. Now, at the beginning of 2023, the Rising Sun’s pop culture exports remain as…
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The Diminishing Returns of Reducing Medical Risk
In the United States, the issues that patients ask about during routine medical check-ups have been changing. Reports of physical symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath and racing heartbeats…
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Activism as Celebration, not Victimhood
When I came out as bi in 1999, I was living in San Diego. I had no idea at the time how lucky I was. Thanks to the work of…
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