Tracy Clark-Flory
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Oakland, CA, United States
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TikTok #CouplePranks and the Disappointments of Heterosexuality
Women are inciting straight men toward displays of jealousy, aggression, and the "tragedy of heterosexuality," for lols. → Read More
If You’ve Ever Had Any Questions About Monster Dicks, We’ve Got Answers
Halloween is a time for candy, costumes, and reflecting on the particulars of Frankenstein's peen → Read More
Fanfiction Considers the 'Vast Gray Area' of Consent
In Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent, writer Maria Popova argues that stories of "dubious consent" are a form of "cultural activism" → Read More
'Deepfake Porn' Is Getting Easier and Easier to Make
What does it mean for consent as deepfakes become increasingly accessible? → Read More
Lego Vows to Go Gender-Neutral, Making Parenting The Tiniest Bit Easier
Also, farewell, to all those snatch-waisted minifigs? → Read More
The Ambivalence of Desire
Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex argues for the feminist imperative to interrogate, and even change, our sexual desires → Read More
Luna Matatas Wore 'Peg The Patriarchy' Long Before Cara Delevingne
The artist, a queer woman of color, trademarked the phrase in 2015 only to see Delevingne sporting it uncredited at the Met Gala → Read More
Hollywood Sure Knows How to Pander to Masculine Panic
Chris Pratt's The Tomorrow War is the love child of the manosphere and 'woke' father-of-daughter feminism → Read More
School Supplies, a 'Roof Over Our Heads,' Escaping Violence: What the Child Tax Credit Really Means for Moms
Beyond the ecstatic, viral TikToks is the sober reality of vegetables as "luxury" items → Read More
10 Things I Know About Him: My FBI-Like Tracking of My High School Crushes
A walk down memory lane, littered with notes written in glittery gel pen → Read More
Swimming into the Unknown with Author Bonnie Tsui
Facing my fear of jellyfish, great whites, and stingrays → Read More
All Roads Lead to Himbo: My Wellness Journey With Chris Hemsworth
A workout, smoothie, and meditation with Australia's most famous Chris → Read More
Useless SESTA/FOSTA Bill Caused Exactly the Devastation Predicted By Sex Workers
"They should probably listen to impacted people who are doing this work" → Read More
'Pleasure and Tedium': What Porn Reveals About the Future of Work
Adult performers have long worked under realities now seen as reflective of a 'new' economy that brings "intimate life" to the market → Read More
Justin Baldoni's Man Enough Is a Shallow Study of Men's Tender Feelings
Actor and director Justin Baldoni’s new book, Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity, is remarkably honest about its limitations. “I’m not sure if there is anything really revolutionary in this book,” he writes in the opening line of the introduction. “Unique maybe?” he asks, even as he appears to question that. The book is, Baldoni writes, “a messy, vulnerable exploration of manhood,” in which… → Read More
The Wine Mom's Quiet, Cheerful Facade of Rebellion
In late March of last year, amid stay-at-home orders and school shutdowns, a Facebook group identifying itself as “a place for Hot Mess Mamas” posted a photo of four glasses of red wine at various levels of fullness. Slapped onto the image was bold text reading, “Today’s Homeschool Lesson ‘Fractions.’” There was a number under each glass: 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1. “Any ideas for algebra?” asked the… → Read More
The Convenient Lie of 'Sexual Empowerment'
This is an adapted excerpt from Tracy Clark-Flory’s Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire, a memoir about coming of age under the illusion of sexual freedom. → Read More
Living Vicariously Through the '90s Teen Beat Bad Boy
Recently, roughly a quarter of a century after I fell into an adolescent obsession with Leonardo DiCaprio, I re-watched Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet. What struck me—aside from the fact that I still had most of the script memorized by heart, and that I still found it near impossible to watch without reciting it—was the realization that the scenes I cherished most as an adolescent were… → Read More
Do the Patriarchy to Me
This is an adapted excerpt from Tracy Clark-Flory’s Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire, a memoir about coming of age under the illusion of sexual empowerment. It’s out today, February 16. → Read More
My porn life: what my years as a sex writer taught me about my desires
Tracy Clark-Flory spent years as a reporter embedded in the porn world. Here, she shares how it shaped her own sexuality → Read More