Articles written about sex

Honeysuckle's Guide to Sex in Public: The MoMA

Making love gets creative at New York's Museum of Modern Art, as OnlyFans creator Heclectic explains.

30 Minutes With inapproprororo: Star of Stage, Screen, and Strip Club

Self-proclaimed ‘friendly neighborhood lesbian stripper’ Ro teaches us how we can best support sex workers...and why we need to move away from labelling the job “empowering.”

420 Edition

King Noire On Decolonizing Porn & His Love Of Cannabis

Adult films have a long history. Some sordid, some fun. In this ever-changing industry, actors often nd themselves in di cult situations where their bodily autonomy is threatened, in a variety of ways, including race play, age-play and fetishes that are degrad- ing. Agents may agree to things without prior

LGBTQIA

On the Historical Suppression of Female Sexual Pleasure

The lack of medical research into female anatomy has caused a data gap and an ingrained taboo surrounding sexual pleasure Defaulting Male Anatomy Scientific study has been situated within a white, cis, male framework that has been used as a template for all medical practices. Those that fall outside of

porn

Pornhub Purges Nearly 80% of Its Videos in an Effort to Reduce Copyrighted and Abusive Content

Pornhub’s New Terms With the proliferation of pornography on the internet comes challenges in regulating sex trafficking, child sexual abuse, and revenge porn. The ease of access to adult content websites and potential anonymity provided to uploaders has resulted in unfettered access to content, some of which is non

Cannabis

“Let Your Freak Flag Fly”: Laganja Estranja on “Daddy” Music Video, Cannabis, and Creativity

Sultry, uninhibited, and endlessly inventive, Laganja Estranja is known for her bright drag aesthetic, death drops and love of cannabis. She released a music video for her new sex-positive track “Daddy” on November 30. Laganja Estranja sat down with Honeysuckle to discuss filming the music video, breaking taboos, sexual exploration,

Cannabis

Mother-Daughter Duo Jet Setting Jasmine and Omani Lynn Lead the Way on Cannabis Positivity

If you’ve been hitting the blunt lately, you are in good company. According to the 2020 report released by the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime, cannabis is now the most popular psychotropic in the world. In the United States, cannabis use is up 30% since 2009. As

Cannabis

How to Infuse Cannabis Into Your Love Life

Are you looking to take your love life up a notch? There are several natural ways you can boost your libido and spice up your sex life. And cannabis is emerging as one of the most prominent of these natural solutions to a dull love life. To many, it’s

Music

On Secret Sex Work, Cardi B, and Finding Liberty

I’m on my work break, standing at a traffic light in Bushwick as a dozen high school kids pass me. About ten or eleven of them buzz in a group as Cardi B blasts from one of their backpacks. “There’s some hoes in this house There’s some

Black voices

Black Heels, Purple Haze

GABI (C) Maxime Giordani In honor of Pride Month, we take a trip back to a personal remembrance of sex and cannabis. Sex and love might not always be the same in every relationship, but we celebrate them in all their forms. To those in the LGBTQ community, you are

2020 startups

Entrepreneur Glenise Kinard-Moore Makes Black Herstory with Disruptive Sex Tech Invention, The VDOM

Honeysuckle is proud to present Nadya’s Entrepreneurial Corner, a running column that provides special insight into the ever-changing world of entrepreneurship. Through exclusive interviews and op-eds, social entrepreneur Nadya Rousseau explores how innovative minds are moving us forward every day – and what you can do to make

Porn and Politics with King Noire and Jet Setting Jasmine:On Being Black and Polyamorous

Heralded as the so-called “new” sexual revolution, the practice of polyamory is seemingly on everyone’s radar as a hot topic of conversation. Indeed, given how normalized monogamy is within contemporary mainstream Western culture, it is unsurprising that polyamory, or the practice of loving multiple partners openly, simultaneously, and with

Lust and Libation at the Poetry Brothel

Dreams of love and mad romance sings the band, Jaclyn West and the Maltese Falcons. It is the 24th of October, and I am at the Poetry Brothel at Bogart House in Brooklyn, where everything is bathed in a soft, pink glow, where desire ebbs and flows like a shimmering

MY OWN PRIVATE PASSION PARTY: Finding Empowerment Through Sexuality

When I was in my 20s, I got my first vibrator. I was going through a dry spell and complaining to a friend when she suggested I get my own “toy.” I was a little hesitant because, even though I wasn’t a virgin, the thought of sticking a large,

Unbound: King Noire on Kink, Porn, and Polyamory

I hit play. The video started slowly; the camera cut close to their entangled bodies. She was soft and beautiful, with a long, braided mohawk. He was tattooed with washboard abs, but I liked his smoldering eyes. I settled in, prepared for what most porn watchers expect from a video

NSFW Playdate: Millennials All Grown Up

Somewhere in the Lower East Side, just off of an early-alphabet avenue, stood a suited man outside of a four-story townhouse. It was one of those townhouses that organizations can rent out for events, but there isn’t usually a bouncer outside asking for a password upon entry. Nevertheless: “I’

Sounding Sexy at NS-FW’s ASMRErotica

I lay on the floor among a menagerie of aroused onlookers, listening intently to acclaimed pornstar Lisa Ann as she seductively describes having her way with a nervous yet thrilled pool boy. This was the scene that the cleverly named New Society for Wellness (NS-FW) set with its ASMRErotica event.

A Standing "O" for Adult Sex Ed

“There is a dearth of successful sex education in America,” says comedian and producer Dani Faith Leonard, and in the wake of eight states’ recent bills to severely curtail women’s access to abortion procedures – including an outright ban in Alabama – the need for such frank discussion about our bodies,

Gender & Sexuality

How to Tell Someone Your Vagina Doesn’t Work

However, the reality of being physically together and sleeping in the same bed terrified me.

books

New Erotica for Feminists Flips Well-Worn Phantasms of Pornography and Erotic Literature

By Emma VosCaitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston, Fiona Taylor and Carrie Wittmer’s new collection of witty erotica will leave you lustful because there’s nothing sexier than equality.The four authors, founders of comedy and satire site The Belladonna, compiled New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust and

The Myth of Making Love

By Ali McPhersonIn Insecure, the heroine Issa gets it on with four lovers. Lawrence, who she previously dated for five years, her ex Daniel, her lowlife neighbor who she met like twice, and her most recent lover Nathan. From the makeup sex with Lawrence to an intense rendezvous in a

A Dirty Word

A Dirty Word: An Interview with Author Steph Auteri

In her book A Dirty Word: How a Sex Writer Reclaimed Her Sexuality, Steph Auteri takes us through her experience of being sexually assaulted in a way that many women know all too well. Not the blatant, violent, felonious type we read and hear about at the top of the