Partying with [not] Playboy, writing with BARE magazine

For reasons that require (I hope) no explanation, I’ve been reading a lot about sex lately. All kinds of things–poetry, feminist criticism, Medium articles of sex tips, and articles about consent and building a consent culture. Lately I discovered this older but perennial “Top Ten Party Commandments” from…well, not actually from Playboy. The site is […]

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(Bad?) Sex in Fiction goes Unrewarded

I write this post with a heavy heart. The Literary Review reports that its would-be judges of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2020 have decided, after difficult deliberation, to cancel the prize for this year. Their rationale: “The judges felt that the public had been subjected to too many bad things this year to justify […]

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