Gay-passing pedant: You called Chris’s biceps “glistening”?
Woman: What word would you use?
Gay-passing pedant: Bulging, gargantuan, varicose, veiny.
Overheard during morning-after debrief
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Letter from the Editors
We strive to be a democratic publication, one whose direction is shaped by our contributors more than our editorial staff. When we floated the idea for a sex issue, we received overwhelming enthusiasm from the Nass community. So we went ahead with it. Previous mastheads had done this—in 1988 and 2006. But those were…
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The Case Against Sex
“What about sex reduces the male brain to a pile of mush? Are these the leaders of the next generation? The very best of our future investment bankers and Raytheon interns? We’re doomed.”
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A Note on Dobbs v. Jackson and Brexit
What might Brexit teach us about the political ramifications of Dobbs v. Jackson?
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Sexter, Over Time
“I feel yucky, I said. I licked a fucking banana. We’ve all been there, my friend said, but I wasn’t so sure that he could relate to using a banana as a sensuous prop. I ate the banana since it was peeled already.”
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All About the Money: On Fiscal Republicans’ Anti-Choice Rhetoric
A Nass writer speculates about what the political right stands to gain from overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Kissing Covens: The Gilda Stories as a Manifesto of Radical Black Love
“The horizontal, chosen family works outside of the law — in The Gilda Stories, love is never codified by a wedding, same sex and interracial relationships play out beyond the reach of history, and one can have limitless mothers.”
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DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT: A Personal(ish) History of Fanfiction
“Now that it’s mainstream, it’s hard for me to reconcile the subcultural nature of fanfiction and fan spaces with its ever-increasing visibility. For almost a decade, I’ve been so entrenched in fan culture that it surprises me when someone doesn’t know what Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics entail.”
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You Look Healthy: The Veiled and Wounding Culture of Body Shame in Urban South Asia
How cultural ideals of thin, fair, and lovely are wounding South Asian women.
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Director’s Cut: Full Design
This week, the Nass talks about movies, bodies, and movies about dog bodies.
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When Your B1tch Becomes Human: A Review of My Dog Tulip
“If Ackerley perceives his dependent, female dog as essentially human, this is a strong statement regarding Ackerley’s beliefs about women in general. In fact, many of his statements regarding Tulip, throughout the film, feel steeped in misogyny, given that they are not statements generally associated with dogs.”