Learning to Write Erotica (from my memoir in progress)

When I was twenty-two, I spent six months writing a novel by hand in a coffee shop in New Jersey. I had graduated college a year before, worked for a small Japanese start-up selling automated toilet seats that wash your ass, and I was not lost. I was taking a...

Writing About Writing About Sex

Today I’m thinking about writing and sex along with exhaustion and mindfulness. Sexy right? One of the things all this writing about sex does (at least on a good day) is to help me get more comfortable with my vulnerable places. It helps me find my wounded and hurt...
Brooke Shields’ Desk

Brooke Shields’ Desk

“Brooke Shields used to sit at that desk.” I turned to look at the girl next to me and shrugged like I didn’t care. It looked like all the others, but in an instant, I knew it wasn’t. It was special, it was possibly sacred, and why the hell did she have to say that...

Growing Older in Photos

Why is it that there are far more women on Tumblr willing to take their clothes off for strangers than men? It’s easy to say that they need it more, they get feedback that is necessary in a culture that tells women they will never be pretty enough. But I suspect...