Under the mass surveillance of erotic intimacy, sexual freedom is retreating even as it appears to be advancing.
NEWLY PUBLISHED: Sexual Fascism: Essays
The state of rage: The American sexual dystopia
How the state exploits public rage to discipline the population.
Transgressions: From porn to polyamory
The walls of sexual repression within.
Sexual surveillance in the Covid-19 era
Sex in the time of coronavirus in China and the U.S.
The breasts of Bali: An update
Things are grim on the ground but the tradition lives on in pictures.
American massage
After long experience in East and Southeast Asia, the author turns his attention to the massage scene in his home country.
Massage diary: Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
Wending my way through Mekong River territory to sample some of the world’s most varied massage offerings.
Facebook, rococo vulvas, and the pornographic imagination
What happens when wayward algorithms are allowed to censor content on social media.
An American talisman
Only a perverted and schizophrenic society dangles sexual temptations to ever-younger people and punishes them brutally.
The breast etiquette project
A civilized approach to men’s obsession with the breasts.
Massage and the Writer: Essays on Asian Massage
What if the antagonistic aspects of the massage practice—the therapeutic and the erotic—were seen as inseparable?
A massage school
There is no such thing as strictly nonsexual massage: massage is always already erotic.
The curious benefits of neurosis
Crucially, she has the “touch.” Love in her hands.
Coffee and massage in Burma
Burma’s burgeoning massage and café industries considered in tandem.
When poets speak of death: 100 aphorisms and epigrams on massage
“When poets speak of death, they call it the place without breasts.”
ISHAM COOK 