I became my own primary partner. I took the time and care to understand myself more, in the way that I would have taken time and care for a partner in the past.

As we’ve gained more mainstream visibility, being gay has become more about ‘identity’, with the ‘fucking’ being increasingly sanitised from the queer experience.

Casual sex and dating are complex for someone who is bipolar. How can I live a balanced life when my natural urges are read as a warning sign?

The resulting mainstream culture around masturbation (including pharmaceutical organisational practices) has become stale, and girlboss-ily gender essentialist.

Disabled pleasure knows no bounds, bringing an intimacy that goes beyond romantic love, genitals or penetrative sex.

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.

As Victoria talked more openly to peers about sex, her interest in it and its relationship to fatness grew.

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.

With little energy but plenty of desire during cancer treatment, this author found sex had to be left to the professionals.

From Progress Shark to lesbian literature, activism to polyamory and so much more, here are Archer Magazine’s editors’ top picks for 2023.

Yen-Rong Wong talks about her new book, Me, Her, Us, exploring race, sex, pleasure, kink, familial expectation and identity.

By improving sex education in Nigeria and destigmatising sex as a shameful act, sex may be enjoyed safely, regardless of gender or sexuality.

From trans sex to bisexual pride, here are our most read online pieces of 2022.

Just about every live Madonna performance features gendered revenge themes. She overpowers men via kicking, hitting, shooting or fucking.

We are all just reacting to our bodies’ hormonal changes, but ticking boxes in the bedroom felt like more of a priority than genuine pleasure. This glorified act started to feel a little rogue – ugly, even – and I haven’t even tried it yet.

A one-size-fits-all approach to hormonal birth control is almost guaranteed to cause unintended harm, but we’re told that it’s unavoidable.

“The main focus of my work is a documentation of soft, intimate moments.” Photographer Spyros Rennt talks to Christopher Boševski.

This is what makes purity culture social media influencers so unique; their ideologies are bound in digital currencies – not physical ones.

It’s our new monthly queer film review! Strap on for fave oldies and new baby dyke films on the scene. We start with Better Than Chocolate.

The first time I discovered period sex, it was impromptu and with someone I loved. I was really aroused by the idea of it.

I always came back to porn. I started to repress any frightened part of my brain in order to keep up with Pornhub. I was completely desensitised.

It made me hate being a boy. Not because I didn’t want to be one, but because the world around me was letting me know I was doing a bad job at trying.