“I want both: marriage and lovers, freedom and security. I want my husband to say yes to this.”

Everything human has its animal origins.

Sara Elkamel interviews Aya Aziz about Islam, sexuality, and the dimensions of the self.

PEN/Guernica Flash Fiction Series: Of heat and conversations on a rainy day.

Boys, basketball, and a disruptive act of brother-love.

A kiss on the lips that might as easily have been a kiss on the forehead.

A feature documentary considers the private lives of female sex workers at America's truck stops.

It wasn’t like we hadn’t grown accustomed to male wooers after Pa danced his way out of the picture, but something about Casero, that old bag, pissed me off.

Why we need to recognize the changing face of Western families.

Kissing strangers in the rain

“You’re delicious,” he says, meaning it, remembering the taste of mango.

“Divorce, a fresh start.”

The city of lights, migrant refugees, and gay Muslim weddings.

Contradictions in the language of love and law.

Two acts of terrorism stir up memories of the West Bank and homophobia.

Revealing the unexpected, rejuvenating powers of a crush.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision, a traveling exhibit on the treatment of homosexuals under Nazism sheds light on a darker period.

Boundaries of Taste: The filmmaker and artist on the evolution of bad taste.

Protesting horrific human ugliness through art.

An interview with Irish journalist and LGBT rights activist Una Mullally.

When the boy she was dating hit my sister, it made a sharp cracking sound, just like it does in the movies.

Flash Fiction: But you're a lesbian, aren't you? You become the person in his head.

Sometimes you don’t know who you are until you put on a mask.

He smiled, shyly, and then came toward Evan, and although in the red light the scars on Evan’s chest were not visible, Billy found them and kissed them.

In Gavdos there is a sort of collective protest against the past. Not against history and the stubborn patterns we mistake for certainty, but against all evidence of time beyond the beach.

I could still feel his touch, and each time I thought about his truck I felt guilty.

A conversation with Julia Ingalls on the fiction and non-fiction of child abuse.

The journalist on researching lust, the myth of female monogamy, and why “voyeurism is essential to good writing.”

I could understand how difficult it must’ve been for two beautiful boys to resist one another, you, and my friend. But what happened next was what I had a hard time wrapping my head around.

In Malibu, there lived a beautiful old woman without a nervous system.

The journalist and former sex worker on what feminists get wrong about prostitution.

Guest fiction editor Roxane Gay introduces this issue's erotica.

Notes on names Boy gets called at school: fudge packer, pansy, fairy, pillow biter, cock gobbler.

Character study vs. flimsy romance in Fifty Shades of Grey, Trishna,and Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

Their bodies converse. They forget that very soon one of them will be burned alive on Place de Grève.

Is a new feminism that glorifies pregnancy and childbirth holding women back?

One woman’s choice.

Pascal Bruckner’s musings on seduction come just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Hugh Hefner was once called a protofeminist and a social radical. But it’s been a while.

There were big ones and small ones and medium-sized ones, blonde and brunette, and even bald ones…

There was a time when illegal abortion was the only option for a woman with an unwanted pregnancy.