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TEXTING
“I know how men are afraid of women who OBSESS.” Ann Pedone’s poems tackle men, sex, longing, love, and everything in between. Continue Reading TEXTING
Read GOSSIP COLUMN CONFIDENTIAL by Henna Persimmon
Immerse yourself in a scandalous world much like Bridgerton as a society columnist navigates love, split personalities, and tabloid-worthy drama. Continue Reading Read GOSSIP COLUMN CONFIDENTIAL by Henna ...
FACTOIDS
A young woman feels the impact of contrasting sociocultural contexts Continue Reading FACTOIDS
The Statement
The girl I went to see lives in room number 96. Her name is Nana and that has been the only thing I know about her name. Continue ...
I Am He
Do you want me anymore Do you want her more Is my tummy too big are my tits too small Freaks Are Good as are we all I don’t care ...
Are We Writing Pornography?
From Wetlands to The Time Traveler’s Wife, sex is a big part of many of our lives and it is, indeed, all around us, whether in a pornographic or erotic ...
Lost Things and Missing Persons
She kissed him and said, “I want you to be the first.” He never asked her why. Of all the men she must have known, he couldn’t believe he ...
Boys Don’t
He had never done it before. The only time he had ever hit a girl’s face, by accident, was when he was five. He had merely meant to push his ...
Robert Lloyd Parry brings M. R. James’ ghost stories to the stage
This week on Litro Lab, actor Greg Page reads a story that appeared in our Sex-themed issue in February. “The Recovery Position” by Stuart Snelson is a painfully funny tale ...
Tracey Cox’s Literary Problem Page
Authors may expect us to buy the happy-ever-after ending, but seriously? Wives in the attic, cross-species love and a 2,000 year age gap? How long is it really going to ...
Denial: A Former Call Girl Shares Her Story
When I worked as a call girl, I relied on, and needed, denial to function in life. That denial was essential in order to work. To have sex with men ...
Lily
We walked across the street to the park. Some of our number dropped back, heading to the pub. They claimed they were too manly to go any longer without beer, ...
A Healthy Respect for Sex: What Lady Chatterley’s Lover Can Still Teach Us
“I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything ...
The Top 10 Weirdest Relationships in Literature
Cross-dressing, sodomy, blood-sucking and a touch of necrophilia. In this feature, novelist Rosie Garland picks her top ten weirdest relationships in literature. “The edge of things has always interested me ...
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Litro #122: Sex
Featuring stories from John Biggs, Simon Kearns, Stuart Snelson, Eli Goldstone, Simon Tonkin and Lauren Seidman.
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The Magnet and the Needle
She resented his apology for the display of power it was. The silence had been building for some miles, compressed by the confined space of the car, and it was ...
Digital Subscriptions, Litro #122: Sex, Travel&Lifestyle
Purple Bra
I am not interested in art but I am interested in sex, so after I first learned of Currin in a New Yorker profile in January, 2008, his name and ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #122: Sex
OK Cupid
“Do you like to listen to music during sex?” The website is asking me. I tick ‘no’. I think, who is listening to music during sex? I feel sorry for ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #122: Sex
Excerpt from The Writing Shed
Katja’s room was right at the top of the house; in fact it was set into the roof. The ceiling in the small room was comfortably low and the single, ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #122: Sex
Werewolf Night
Sleep always takes Jack by surprise now that he’s turned fifty. His legs can’t find a comfortable spot, his mind won’t turn off, he doesn’t feel as tired as he ...