Category Archives: Feature

These are feature-length stories.

Dressing Femme: Gender is Sexual

17th
Sep. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

This is inspired by a  guest post of mine that appeared on the fab fashion blog,  Already Pretty. The post on Already Pretty was about  dressing slutty. I don’t have any memories before age three. But around then, I remember talking with pre-teen babysitters. I crossed my legs. I sighed. “Oh such silky-smooth legs” I [...]

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Highschool Bullying

27th
Aug. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

I am 15 and in music class. The  teacher is deaf.  His eyes are lidded with sleep, enlarged in owly-y glasses, ears grown over with cotton-fuzz. Crystal is assigned to sit beside me. “Eat it” she said, pushing a spitball toward my face. “No” I breathed, a thing flying in my chest. The class rippled.  [...]

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Senior Citizens and BDSM

25th
Aug. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

This piece was originally written for and published in Gapers Block Errol and I are in the car. He’s been to The Sins Center before and I, well, I have never been to a BDSM club. “So tell me again about the last time you were there,” I ask. He shakes his head. “So I [...]

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That Time I Worked at an Egg Donation Agency

13th
Aug. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

I’d get in at 8:50 and carefully hang my coat while the phone rang. My voicemail would be full of messages, left in that window of infomercials and irrational thought patterns. “ Yeah, uhm. I was wonderin’ about this egg donation that I read in the paper. It says I can make $7,000.” The overwhelming [...]

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Where is Our Porn?

4th
Aug. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

On my laptop there is an ever-increasing  folder of images.  Some of them, like this one (found here) end up as photos on Rabbit Write. But many, you’ll probably never see. They are, plainly, porn. I have this worry-fantasy, where a friend or someone will pull up my laptop to find these naked bodies projected [...]

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What I’ve learned about Sex from Asexuality

30th
Jul. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

Yesterday I was in the shower, the warm-cool space where I do my best thinking, and I realized that so much of what I’ve learned about my sexuality has been through asexuality–from somewhere invisible in sex-positivity, in feminism, from somewhere that isn’t sexual at all. Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction. It’s not like [...]

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Getting a Sex Education: Behind the Scenes of the Man Project

24th
Jul. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

Grant Stoddard is the much loved underdog of the sex-writing world. His “I Did it For Science” column at Nerve gave us a hands-on account of his personal exploits, which saw him tackle everything from dressing up like a baby to doing a sample Real Doll at the factory. A few must reads: Experiment: To [...]

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The Divorce Pill: Birth Control Effects Your Doctor Doesn’t Know

14th
Jul. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

When Karen decided to go off the pill, her relationship wasn’t going well. She had a husband whose depression hung heavy. Karen began noticing a putrid smell, emanating from him. “I couldn’t stand to be close to him because he smelled so bad, it wasn’t what we call body odor, it smelled like a soured [...]

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Boys on the Side: The Ones I Have Led on

9th
Jul. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

There’s got to be a moment when it switches on. But in that moment, I assume it’s great conversation, or I don’t assume anything, basking in the electricity of my own voice, the mirrored image of my lashes batting. On this night, I felt it, a current prickled beneath my skin. It was after dinner [...]

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When Sex-Blogging gets you Fired

8th
Jul. × ’10
By Rachel R. White

The night before it happened there was a storm. The St. Louis sky bruised dark, knocking out trees and windows. A sex blogger,  known online as The Beautiful Kind was caught in the web of it, debris cracking her windshield. The following Monday, she would go back to work and smile, trying to shake it [...]

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