The Love/Lust Issue

Articles published in the print Bitch magazine issue, Love/Lust. Check out the complete table of contents for the issue here.

About the Cover: The Love/Lust Issue

The Love/Lust issue of Bitch debuts in early September. The cover is a direct play on the 1969 book cover for Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), by David Reubens.

It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Absent Dialogue around Fat Women’s Sexuality

It’s simply assumed that fat women are not worthy of having anybody “woo” us or walk down the street holding our hands. Read more »

The Questioning Continuum: Seeking Sexuality as a Lifelong Process

The Q of “questioning” doesn’t get a lot of love in a culture that demands definition. Read more »

Let's Get Digital: The prejudices—and the potential—of gaming and erotic roleplaying

Illustrations by Amy Martin Ask any World of Warcraft player about “Goldshire” and you’ll likely hear more than a little embarrassed giggling. The small town just outside the human capital of Stormwind is a known hotbed of ERP—shorthand for erotic roleplaying—derided... Read more »

The Madame Butterfly Effect: Tracing the History of a Fetish

The perception of sexualized Asian women was informed by a long tradition of Western male writing. Read more »