Pansexual impostor syndrome: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 6

Pansexual impostor syndrome: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 6

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader: I'm pansexual, and I feel impostor syndrome calling myself queer. Help!
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Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

Welcome back to Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's question from SecretBabyGay: Any dating tips for inexperienced queers?
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Archer Asks: Gay icon Ülo Klemmer on cruising, beats and public sex

Archer Asks: Gay icon Ülo Klemmer on cruising, beats and public sex

"We knew what men of the time wanted and how they wanted it, and we gave it to them in spades." Ülo Klemmer chats to Laura Castagnini.
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Queer sexual health: The need for inclusive health care and education

Queer sexual health: The need for inclusive health care and education

Queer-inclusive clinics tend to be a luxury afforded to those in big cities, but we all deserve a sense of normalcy in sexual health checks.
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Trans mythology, sissification and cruising: Our editors’ top picks for 2025

Trans mythology, sissification and cruising: Our editors’ top picks for 2025

From sissification to trans mythology, impostor syndrome to werewolves, cruising, and much more, these are the online editors' top picks of 2025.
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Sex, fatness and overcoming shame

Sex, fatness and overcoming shame

As Victoria talked more openly to peers about sex, her interest in it and its relationship to fatness grew.
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Porn, queerness and moral panic: The new old sex wars

Porn, queerness and moral panic: The new old sex wars

Anti-porn sentiment isn't new, but this current wave has created a platform for new puritans, reminiscent of other moral panics.
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Macho Sluts and Love Lies Bleeding: Patrick Califia’s lesbian erotic classic lives on

Macho Sluts and Love Lies Bleeding: Patrick Califia’s lesbian erotic classic lives on

I got my hands on Macho Sluts as a young dyke. Reading my way through my lover’s collection of erotic literature was an initiation of sorts.
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Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

As a trans Filipino sex worker, I’ve been using my gloryhole to create art with my clients, lovers and fellow sex workers.
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Sissification from a transfemme Domme: Safe forced feminisation

Sissification from a transfemme Domme: Safe forced feminisation

This is an alternative to sissification or forced feminisation: the sub is feminised as part of the session, but not mocked for it.
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Queer woman looking to hire a sex worker: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 3

Queer woman looking to hire a sex worker: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 3

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's question: a queer woman is looking to hire a sex worker to explore her sexuality.
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Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

I’ve found there’s something beautifully democratic about traditional cruising – the darkness and anonymity working as great equalisers.
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What if I’m tired of sex? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 5

What if I’m tired of sex? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 5

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader: Is there an age where you can officially call sex too wearingly difficult?
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Queer desire and attraction: Overcoming sexual shame

Queer desire and attraction: Overcoming sexual shame

Shame can be a powerful emotion as a queer person. Recently, shame has centred around my high libido.
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Sexual inexperience, trauma and involuntary celibacy – without the shame

Sexual inexperience, trauma and involuntary celibacy – without the shame

There is a struggle to conceptualise the space between sexual inexperience and abstinence. Our society doesn’t have the vocabulary for it.
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Beyond ‘ethical’ porn: On capitalism, sex work and authenticity

Beyond ‘ethical’ porn: On capitalism, sex work and authenticity

Desire often raises questions: is my desire for this – this thought, this act, this porn, this person – is this okay? Is this porn ethical?
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Trans sex and storytelling: The anatomy of a trans sex scene

Trans sex and storytelling: The anatomy of a trans sex scene

I write like all the sex I’ve had is happening now. This is the anatomy of a trans sex scene: ‘now’ is never just now.
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A guide to Yarra River beats

A guide to Yarra River beats

A Guide to the Yarra River's Beats by Sam Wallman. Sam Wallman is a Melbourne-based cartoonist. He has published four books of drawings, in which he captures the ridiculous, the visceral and the personal...
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Self-love, neurodivergence and sex: Finding peace with all my selves

Self-love, neurodivergence and sex: Finding peace with all my selves

What I do know about myself is that I’m neurodivergent, queer, that I feel deeply, and that I have a doubt-driven, unshakeable desire to be loved.
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Archer Asks: Graphic novelist Rachel Ang on desire and the changing body

Archer Asks: Graphic novelist Rachel Ang on desire and the changing body

"Sex is such an interesting mode of inquiry – a petri dish for gaining knowledge about ourselves and our lusts and limits in the world." Rachel Ang chats to Alex Creece.
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It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader: I’m pansexual, and I feel impostor syndrome calling myself queer. Help!

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