Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. Take a moment to imagine a go-go dancer. What comes to mind? Tall boots? Short skirts? A cage? New York? Los Angeles? Las Vegas? This week I got a chance to sit down with Alicia Lynn, a performer who’s making a living as a […]
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Have you locked down your partner this cuffing season?
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. With the season changing and the temperatures dropping, many of us find ourselves changing our habits. We pull out the warm clothes, start to eat comfort foods, and prepare for the holidays. But do our habits or attitudes around sex and dating also change? […]
The complicated questions that come with cancer don’t get any easier the second time around
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper At my husband’s appointment last week, his doctor turned to us and said, “Do you plan on having any more kids?” We both kind of stumbled. The fact of the matter is that while we haven’t planned on having more kids, we also hadn’t […]
If a tree falls on a house and no one is around to mansplain …
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. During a wild storm on the evening of Halloween, a tree snapped in half in my front yard and fell on my house, taking out my electrical meter and box, my awning, roof shingles, the gutter, and a few other things. The fact that […]
Sapiosexuality should not be viewed as a derisive term
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published in the Pittsburgh City Paper. Several years ago, I had a brief, albeit steamy, romance with a man I met on OkCupid. At the time, he was writing a dissertation on religious symbolism in medieval Europe. After several days of texts exclusively about our research interests, I invited him […]
Forget sexy-time foods, the best aphrodisiacs come from the real relationship work
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. Recently, I was asked what sort of natural aphrodisiacs, such as specific foods or scents, work to heighten sexual arousal and increase libido. I had to admit that I really don’t know because, other than passing cultural references to things like oysters and chocolate, […]
Why you should pay for the porn you watch
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published in the Pittsburgh City Paper. A few years ago, after a well-attended academic talk on the porn industry at the Adult Video Network Convention in Las Vegas, I was chit-chatting with several porn scholars. One said, with a great deal of confidence, “The phone sex industry died because of free […]
Finding the freedom to ‘fuck like an animal’
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published in the Pittsburgh City Paper. When I was first starting to have sex as a teenager in the mid-90s, Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” was like a generational anthem. I have vivid memories of having sex in a car in a park-and-ride, the bass of that song reverberating throughout the vehicle. […]
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