S Nicole Lane

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Why Some Women Prefer Masturbation to Sex

56 percent of women-identifying people said that masturbation leads to a better orgasm, while 19 percent of men feel the same way.
In a SuperDrug study with 1,000 people, 88 percent of those who identified as women said that they masturbated twice a week, and 24 percent of them preferred it to intercourse. 56 percent of participants explained that for them masturbation led to a more fulfilling orgasm. The deeper the study went the more that was learned about women’s masturbating preferences —...

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Women-Run Coworking Spaces And The Future Of The Office

The new office is the coffee shop, the public space, the laptop computer — cramped and bustling with analogous professionals who work on their own time or hustle on the side.
The writer, the artist, the business owner, and the graphic designer coexist in increasingly popular public spaces.
Amongst these co-working conditions is the efferevesent presence of motivation, along with an onslaught of masculine inhabitants. True, ear plugs and laptop screens shield much social interaction, but never...

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How to Talk to Your Partner about HPV

Takeaway:
April marks the beginning of STI Awareness Month. And maybe you are aware ... but are you talking to your partners about your risk?
At one point in their lives, 75% of sexually active women will have the human papilloma virus (HPV). HPV is notorious for being confusing. It's complicated - it's linked to several cancers, it can cure itself (but sometimes it doesn't), it can involve painful procedures for some, while for others it's no big deal. Most recently, we've learned that HPV i...

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Where Is My G-Spot And What Do I Have To Do To Find it?

There it was, in all of its glory, my guessing-spot, my where-the-hell-have-you-been-all-my-life spot, my G-spot.
I’ve written about the orgasm gap for HelloFlo in the past—the numbers shocked me, and still do. Since writing that article, I haven’t faked an orgasm, not one. My pleasure counts. As do all of my pleasure zones. But before I go off on a tangent (and I swear it’s related), I want to also note another important topic that I’ve discussed in the past—the multiple erogenous zones that...

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya's Photographs Are Fragments of Homoeroticism and Representation

I first saw Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s work at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2014 during his Jackman Goldwasser Residency in my neighborhood in Chicago. I was fresh out of college with a photography degree and immediately drawn to his fragmented figures, use of self-portraiture, and narrative images. Gay culture and desire were—and still are—evident in Sepuya’s body of work. But his execution of imagery, and layering of ephemera is what activates the viewer; has them groveling on the floor.
Sepuya cur...

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The Devious and Divine: Sacred Sadism talks Eco-Fetishism and BDSM

Like many people, places, and things I find nowadays, I stumbled upon Sacred Sadism through Instagram. Scrolling through my explore page, I was confronted with an image of a couple posed with natural objects dressed in latex and leaves — I was immediately drawn to the post.

Sacred Sadism is a ecosexual line of impact play tools run by the creative couple Genevieve Belleveau and Themba Alleyne in California, which they launched in February of this year. The line is not only visually beautiful,...

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ColectivoMultipolar : Documenting Our Life

I first saw ColectivoMultipolar on the dance floor where they were photographing Rosebud, a queer party at Berlin in the Boystown neighborhood. The photographer came over to me and said, “Can I take your photo?” to which I smiled and held the hand of a close friend standing nearby. Later on, we would connect again through social media, where I started to follow their practice, follow their friendships, and admire their dedication to the Chicago queer nightlife scene.
The photographer document...

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Keto Diet and Libido: What’s the Connection?

According to the research conducted by Disruptive Enterprises, “one in four Americans don’t have enough energy to have sex.”
Ouch. I have to say that’s a bit of a bummer to type out and even more of a bummer to realize that I, too, may be a victim of a sluggish libido due to my sometimes, carb-heavy diet. Yes, carbs are a main source of energy for your body but according to the study, those carbs can also work against your energy levels if you’re consuming. Think less of, white bread, pastrie...

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Period Sex on the First Date: Do You Consider it Taboo?

“I want to hook up with him but I just started my period!” says a long-time friend of mine through a text which she’s sending me from a bathroom stall somewhere on the north side of the city in a crowded bar.
My eyes stare at the text. I try to formulate words but come up empty handed. “Do it anyways,” I respond, to which my friend shoots back an eye-roll emoji face, knowing that I always put my orgasm before anything under the sun. So I start to wonder: is period sex on the first date a good...

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How Can Acupuncture Alleviate Pelvic Pain?

I’m finally admitting to myself that I suffer from chronic pain. For some reason—whether it’s pride or denial—I refused to admit that I lived with constant aches until I was truly, utterly exhausted.
When I first looked into writing this piece, I had just undergone my LEEP—a procedure that removes cells on the cervix that a doctor finds “abnormal” and could potentially lead to cervical cancer. Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time meditating on my pain that lives in my pelvis, in my abdomen; t...

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Intimate Justice: GLAMHAG

“Intimate Justice” looks at the intersection of art and sex and how these actions intertwine to serve as a form of resistance, activism, and dialogue in the Chicago community. For this installment, we talked to GLAMHAG (née Molly Hewitt) in the Pilsen neighborhood about compulsions, empowerment through a chosen identity, and queer sexual narratives.
S. Nicole Lane: What does performance mean to you? Are you always in character? Who are you right now?
GLAMHAG: I guess I’ve always been compelle...

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raw meat collective's queer zines capture cruising culture

Any important future releases or news you want to share?
Raw Meat is headed to LA at the beginning of April for the Independent Art Book Fair presented by Ed Varie Gallery. We’ll have four new releases available then. An awesome new zine by Virgil B.G. Taylor (Fagtips) called Burn This Zine that is meant to be burned and comes with a sexy set of matches to light a fire. Vincent Tiley has been in collaboration with Bryson Rand working on a series of piss pantings and we’ve worked together on a...

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Does Sex Before Bed Lead to Better Sleep?

I’m restless, thrashing around in the sheets, waking up to re-adjust and nudging my partner in the process. It can only mean one thing—I fell into a sexless slumber.
I don’t live with my partner but we do sleep in the same bed approximately four to five days out of the week. At first, I blamed it on the stuffiness of the radiators, my queen size bed, or constant need to touch while catching our z’s. However, I started to notice a pattern. When intercourse ensued before some shut eye, we were ...

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Perserving Celluloid Film: A Look at Archiving in Chicago

In 2011, visual artist Tacita Dean opened her exhibition “FILM” at the Tate Modern where she responded to the destruction of celluloid film. She exhibited a silent, 11 minute, 35mm looped film in the London museum. The exhibition set out to provide a physical display for viewers to see the difference between digital and celluloid. The history of the moving image, important to Dean, exhibited the richness in color and the power of the projection. The New York Times writes, “Like the vinyl long...

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I’m Monogamous But I Believe The Idea Of “Forever” Is Antiquated

It’s not that I find love dull and finalizing in disaster. It’s that I find love enduring, incredibly strong, and a bit addictive.
I spent three years being polyamorous—which ended up to being a terrible fit for me personally—and have joined forces with monogamy again. As someone with intense trauma in relationships, I find my experience with monogamy to be the best arrangement for my emotional and mental state of mind. However, monogamy doesn’t have to be lumped into feelings of jealousy, po...