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Sexuality, gender and the body

Dispatches from the seam between the city’s wellness culture and its oldest trade: sex workers, kinksters, pornographers and the people trying to regulate them.

SMATTER Magazine • 23rd September 2026

Sacred Whores

Between the wellness market and the sex trade, a new class of priestess is selling the sacred by the hour.
carnal-culture.shorthandstories.com • 22nd March 2025

A New Stage For Erotic Theatre

An evolving class of cross-genre events blends art with subversive encounters.
carnal-culture.shorthandstories.com • 30th June 2024

Meet The Kinksters

A dispatch from Folsom Street East, the Northeast’s largest BDSM and Leather street fair.
VICE • 14th April 2016

The Young Arab Sex Workers Making a Living in Israel

Testimonies from the intersection of sex, race, money and war.
The Times of Israel • 25th September 2013

Transgender? Judaism’s got a blessing for you

Two Israeli men who are officially a child’s biological fathers, a male rabbi born a woman, and a genderqueer rocker talk about life as they know it
The Times of Israel • 22nd July 2013

It’s ‘Jewentine’s Day,’ break out the handcuffs and whips

In New York, some Modern Orthodox kinksters are marking Tu B’Av with love slaves and genital clamps
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