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Contemptus Mundi

She Wants to Belong in Earth

Thin Walls

Home, Sick

Between-places: On erotic asceticism

Boy Crazy

Definitionally mapless, mysterious as dark matter, nebulous as mist: women’s desire is not only categorically denied, but threatening in its potential for deception and disorder. Under these conditions, what space is there for women who love men?

Germ Theory

Think of it as the Erotic Trolley Problem. Do you like someone enough to catch their sickness?

Heartbreak Harm Reduction

You love them, they leave. How do you cope with this void? Jean Garnett has a few non-platitudinous prescriptions that act as non-invasive pain management techniques for severe heartbreak. 

Man and Woman, Intimately

179 East 71st Street, New York

Evenings with Saul Steinberg and Hedda Sterne

Graphic Content 

There’s laughing at the sex party 

In culture, kink clubs are a somber business. In practice, people trade barbs between whippings. Kawai Shen takes us beyond the BDSM aesthetics and shows us why laughter is an erotic release. 

Dick is destiny

Give them an inch and they’ll grow a mile. Paul McAdory investigates penis enlargement and  the art of jelqing. 

Ten Thousand Ways of Going Both Ways

Four men—and a chorus of masculine voices—share their histories with bisexuality and experiences as Feeld Members. 

On partners

Mal Picks: Rachel Long

Rachel Handler, Jazmine Hughes, and Marlowe Granados on their connection to a Nora Ephron classic.

Heartburn for “Heart Burn"

Desire is a place

A brief history of public sex

Perhaps you’ve felt attraction, or attracted others in return—but have you ever felt like a creep? Don’t turn away. Allow Tony Tulathimutte to lead you on a descent into the underbelly of romantic pursuit.

Creeps

Affirmations In An Emergency 

Or a holiday. As she travels across the West Coast, Jamie Hood keeps herself on track with these self-soothing mottos and mantras. Here, she offers you a selection to repeat as necessary. 

Can I pull you for a chat? 

Sophie Mackintosh and Rebecca Jennings, author of Be the Bombshell: What Love Island Teaches Us About Dating, finally answer the question: Is it or isn’t it Friendship Island? 

Conversations

My Evil Sexy Doppelganger

Aren't we all just part of a great literary, liberatory tradition? 

Who is at play? 

An image portfolio curated by Lou Stoppard

Mother, Maybe

The body slam of Venus 

At an undisclosed location in East London, a group of lesbians and bisexuals escape the straight scope and explore the inherently  kinky nature of wrestling. 

Fleshy and ripe: The erotic semiotics of fruit 

Pineapple-as-code; Persephone’s pomegranate; the peach in "Call Me By Your Name"—fruit has long signaled deeper desire. Ruby Conway examines how. 

Heavenly bodies 

Within the Catholic Church, many bodies make up the body of Christ, and those have always included a variety of gender expression. A closer look at the  lives of the saints reveal a counternarrative that substantively challenges a gender-normative narrative.

Aftersun, Aftercare

What is August? What is August not? Well, it depends on who you ask. Three photographers show what August is(n’t) to them.

Lube? Or food? 

Plangdi Neple explores the existential finances and impossible negotiations of sex amidst economic collapse in Nigeria. 

Fat4Fat: The liberatory pleasure of f*cking other fat people 

Sexual freedom comes in many forms. For Robin Zabiegalski, it arrived in the bodies of other fat people. 

Let’s Start with the Eggs

On IVF, kink, and delayed gratification.

The rise of India’s first kink fashion brand

Randhir Singh, the founder of Subculture, is channeling India’s erotic history and upending sexual norms left in the wake of colonialism. 

The Erotics of Unhappiness 

“Is there really no sexual excitement without at least a frisson, a pleasurable ache?” asks Daphne Merkin, a writer whose decades-long career may very well center on this very question. 

The endlessness of pain and pleasure

An anatomy of communal desire. 

Take off your jacket: The erotics of books 

Past the talking stage is the reading stage. Ed Luker looks between the lines to find out what makes sharing words with new and old lovers so titillating. 

Regimes of Happiness

On Stanley Cavell and Hollywood’s romantic legacy.

The acclaimed author of "Love Me Back" and a writer of "Orange is the New Black" shares her decades-long timeline of trying to make a television series about abortion.

No Abortion Show

Monogamy is everywhere. Does anyone know what it is?

All about spaces public, private, and everything in between. In this first installment, Anna Fitzpatrick writes about the spatial dimensions of loneliness.

Sex and the cities

The secular and sacred impulse to get on your knees

Knights, nuns, Fleabag—they all know one thing: to kneel in front of another is to look at pleasure with new eyes. 

Our new advice column features Mimi Zhu answering all your burning questions regarding affairs of the heart. In this first instalment, Mimi considers impact and impermanence.

Introducing: Ask Mimi Anything

There’s pleasure to be had in searching, desiring, and getting your cart filled. Lauren Festa investigates the sartorial hotness of The RealReal. 

Going rawraw on TheRealReal

Forever and ever and ever or at least until the credits roll

D’eau d’Attachment

What does your fragrance say about how you love? Where astrology and Meyers-Briggs only go so far, Maddie Phinney shows us how the sillage of your scent reveals all.

Come, let us drool together. 

That shared moment of communal lust in the group chat is a precious thing. Aaron Ewards tell us why.

Back to Palm Springs

Long before Call Me By Your Name and his prolific career as one half of Merchant Ivory, James Ivory escaped the temperamental Oregonian winters for the desert. Here, he revisits his adolescent sojourns in Palm Springs, a site of a sensual coming-of-age

Are you my daddy? 

A brief history of the literary daddy and age-gap relationships. 

The formation of masculinity helps us to understand how its influences are being both felt and opposed today. Collier Meyerson looks at a brief, complex history of masculinity. 

A State of Affairs

Karen Cheung makes playlists into a love language

 Text me when you’re done: Carissa’s Wierd

From being boys together in girlhood, to before and behind the camera.

Masc Mirror: A Short History of A Likeness

Mutant hotties, unspeakable babes: will artificial intelligence expand our sense of sexuality? 

Synthetic Horrors 

Romance: the final boss

In this world and our gamer world, we would have always broken up.

Your future is horny

Nostradamus wishes. Camille Sojit Pejcha tells us what Feeld's 2024 trends reveal about sex in 2025.

Sophie Mackintosh considers the ways we can support ourselves and each other within consensual non-monogamy.

On care

Forget chemistry. Getting things hot is all about physics

A physicist’s take on the concept of sexual tension and its equally hot opposite—sexual compression. 

How dragon smut dispelled my existential angst

When your eyes get tired of reading through the literary canon, Luna Adler suggests turning to romantasy.

Love is the ongoing practice of learning how to meet each other.

Ask Mimi Anything: on boundaries and perfection

On ghost stories

Other Archives

Otherness Archive is an open-access online library gathering moving image works by and for the transmasculine community. Here, they present a collection of film stills from their catalog, along with an essay by Ellis Kroese. 

Messy, meandering desire: How love works in the novels of Nell Zink

Puppies Puppies brings “Nothing New,” and with it, the unseen and the obvious, to the New Museum

Visibility in the gift shop

“[Dyke] means fuck you, in a really nice, inclusive way.”

The New York City Dyke March, Then and Now

Of Signs and Stars

Romance and revolution in 2025’s zodiac

ISO: the words behind the acronyms and the people behind the personals

Take Me Out 

What are your pre-date rituals? 

A potential space: Foreplay as a spiritual experience

How do you prefer to bend time? We choose foreplay, every time. 

Homesexual 

Homesexual is a column devoted to interiors and interiorities. For the first installment, Emanuele Coccia considers what homes are, and what our experience of moving says about how we love.

Homesexual by Emanuele Coccia

The first issue of A Fucking Magazine is now available for purchase online, at newsstands and bookstores, and our website. Here, the editors introduce Feeld's new editorial project.

A letter from your editors

Do you know what you like? Are you sure? Writer Joe Brace makes a case for questioning your erotic identity and remaking your world, over and over again.

You might find it hot 

It can be quite difficult to know, as we tend to only wonder once it’s turned toxic. For answers, we turned to 5 photographers, experienced in the art of expressing the masculine. 

What, exactly, is masculinity?

This week on Feeld, we’re looking at masculinity as a quality seen through expressions.

Masc Off

Thongs are meant to be seen.

A cheeky history of the whale tail

Sophie Mackintosh considers a love found in the kitchen.

On cooking as care

Adam Thirlwell's novel is a twisted epic of sex, gossip, beauty, and other erotics.

An excerpt from "The Future Future"

Zendaya as femme fatale, tennis as a crime of passion: considering  the genre of a recent film phenomenon. 

Is “Challengers” an erotic thriller? One woman's opinion.

Intimacy by way of “A Musical Comedy”

 Text me when you're done: In the company of "Company"

How best can we, as consumers and creators, love fashion? Five distinct critical voices (and self-defined fashion lovers) talk to Feeld about their complex romances, and how we might live better with this most capricious of beloveds.

Making Ourselves Up: A Fashion Roundtable	

Fan Wu on the curious asymmetry of bicuriosity.

Erogenous Zones: An inventory of aches

In an essay originally published for Mal Journal No.3, Daisy Lafarge writes about the moralized protaganists of nature.

Can you be a revolutionary & still love flowers?

Whitney Mallett on the portmanteaus that speak to a very specific kind of transformation.

What does it mean to be “dickmatized”?

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