Tag: Theme: Sex & Sexuality
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Ringing The Devil’s Doorbell: A Light-Hearted, Practical Guide

Let’s talk sex! Vulvar and vaginal stimulation for fun, pleasure, and profit. Originally published on Medium in November, 2021. Content note: this is a reference guide for the stimulation of the vulva and vagina. Throughout this piece there is in-depth discussion of sex and sexual practice, there are diagrams, and there are photographs of vulvas to…
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Crimson Peak: A Love Letter To Gothic Romance

Adoring thoughts on Guillermo Del Toro’s 2015 masterpiece. This review and bit of analysis is related to the talk I’ll be giving on Crimson Peak tomorrow, responses to misogyny and marginalisation in and around Gothic fiction, and how much of this social conservatism is mirrored in BookTok and modern retorts to problematic fiction. All proceeds…
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Addressing Common Arguments Against “Consuming Harmful Content”

Challenging purity culture in online spaces and their fears of “problematic media”. Constant and continuous arguments endure on social media about the dreaded and frightening spectre of problematic media — from television shows that supposedly “glorify” unhealthy relationships or “sexualise” and “excuse” abusive relationships; to erotica, adult books, and 18+ fanfiction that supposedly teach teenagers bad life…
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Cold Comfort
Category: M/M, Kink: Knifeplay, Setting: 1920s, Setting: New Jersey, Setting: USA, Theme: Antisemitism, Theme: Class & Caste Differences, Theme: Crime & Criminals, Theme: Crises of Faith & Belief, Theme: Faith & Religion, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Immigrants & Immigration, Theme: Incarceration & Imprisonment, Theme: Intersex People & Intersex Bodies, Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity, Theme: Jewish Religion & Mythology, Theme: Mental Illness, Theme: Organised Crime & The Mob, Theme: Power Struggles, Theme: Queer Community, Theme: Servants & Service, Theme: Sex & Sexuality, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Violence & Killing, World: Magic Beholden
Queer fiction. A mob boss takes in a rival’s hostage, and tries to keep him from suicide. Photo by cottonbro studio via Pexels. 14k, M/M, rated E for equally explicit sex and violence. Set in 1920s New Jersey. Nasty and violent. Alvis Hunter, boss of a significant crime operation, steals a captive out from under a rival—Naham,…
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Writing Advice: Crafting Richer Erotica

Adding depth and complexity to your sex scenes. From my Tumblr! Photo by Ketut Subiyanto via Pexels. Anonymous asked: Your smut is always so good, I hope it’s okay to ask for advice, but I’ve been struggling with writing smut in that my sex scenes always end up so short — I don’t want to just pad them out…
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A Grindr Hook-Up

Sex and intimacy on demand. Photo by Ketut Subiyanto via Pexels. “Hi.” “Hi.” “Find the place okay?” “Yeah.” “Come upstairs. This way.” It’s always funny, the first moment a hook-up crosses the threshold into my bedroom, the way he looks around, takes in the place — the flags and posters, the LEGO I have on display, my computer set-up,…