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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Demisexuality and the need for increased visibility

Demisexuality and the need for increased visibility

The thing is, yes, I really do want a label for my demisexuality. The finding of this word, and of the community that uses it, was life-changing.
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Sex on premises

Sex on premises

They’re called Sex on Premises Venues, or SOPVs. As a homogenous idea of ‘gay culture’ is slowly digitised into app-based cruising, and nightclubs struggle to attract the next generation of gay men, can the...
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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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Vaginismus flare-ups: Patterns of pain, patience and pleasure

Vaginismus flare-ups: Patterns of pain, patience and pleasure

I was referred to a gynaecologist, where after a brief physical exam, she concluded my pelvic floor had more strain on it than the Nixon administration at the height of Watergate.
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Blak sovereignty, the Matildas and queer polyamorous parenting: Our editors’ top picks for 2023

Blak sovereignty, the Matildas and queer polyamorous parenting: Our editors’ top picks for 2023

From Progress Shark to lesbian literature, activism to polyamory and so much more, here are Archer Magazine's editors' top picks for 2023.
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Breastfeeding, asexuality and trauma: Our editors’ picks for 2019

Breastfeeding, asexuality and trauma: Our editors’ picks for 2019

We’ve made it to the end of 2019 already. How did that happen?! We’ve published some really great pieces this year, and we’ve seen some of our old favourites maintain their popularity. To celebrate...
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Queer history, Justin Bieber and drag: Our editors’ picks for 2021

Queer history, Justin Bieber and drag: Our editors’ picks for 2021

Here's a top 10 list of our editors’ picks for 2021, celebrating some of the incredible articles written by our contributors.
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What you read to get through 2020: Our editors’ picks

What you read to get through 2020: Our editors’ picks

This year has been hectic, to say the least. To round out the year that we'd rather forget, we have put together a top 10 list of our editors' picks for 2020. You will...
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The most read pieces of 2021: Poppers, The L Word, sex and disability

The most read pieces of 2021: Poppers, The L Word, sex and disability

As we celebrate our newly launched DISABILITIES issue, we’re also taking the opportunity to look back on all of the brilliant pieces we’ve published this year. This was my first year as Archer Magazine’s...
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