Ideas worth reading.

My Instagram account — 1.25 million views, 80 posts, hundreds of hours of work — was permanently disabled overnight. This is what happened, and what I decided.

A short story about modern love, erotic possibility, and the cultural forces that make intimacy both more imaginable and more fragile than ever before.

A critical analysis of how neoliberal language of empowerment and choice is used to justify pornography production — and what feminist theory reveals about those justifications.

Pornography reduces sexuality to a product. Drawing on Audre Lorde and Plato, a reflection on eroticism as a way of inhabiting ourselves fully — and why the alternative to pornography is not repression.

Research consistently documents high rates of prior trauma among women in pornography production — and the psychological consequences that follow. A review of the evidence.

Self-objectification is not simply about caring about appearance — it is a shift in consciousness. A personal and theoretical essay on dissociation, the internalized gaze, and what recovery looks like.

Eros is not limited to sexuality. Drawing on Plato, Audre Lorde, and feminist body theory, a reflection on how physical training, sobriety, gospel music, and intellectual inquiry are all expressions of the erotic impulse toward life.

The most misunderstood critique of pornography is that it is opposed to sexuality. A clear-eyed account of Andrea Dworkin's actual argument — that pornography institutionalizes male dominance, not that it opposes sexual expression.

Objectification occurs when a person is reduced to a category. Drawing on Crenshaw, Collins, Dworkin, and Fredrickson, an essay on how identity culture can replicate the same mechanisms of reduction that feminist theory set out to critique.

Sexual objectification reduces a person from subject to object. A personal and theoretical essay on neoliberalism, self-surveillance, and what it means to lose — and reclaim — embodied subjectivity.

At 41, newly sober and mid-doctoral program, I realized I had lived an objectified life. This is the origin of my feminist work — a project of un-objectifying my mind and reclaiming inner authority.

I argue that men don't love pornography as much as the industry might advertise. On evolutionary psychology, compulsive use, emotional regulation, and what men may be missing out on.

Applying Chomsky's concept of manufacturing consent to the public debate on pornography — and asking why the term "sex worker" narrows the framework of debate rather than expanding it.

A reader challenged my post on manufactured consent. His argument is economic and libertarian. Mine is psychological and relational. I argue that sexuality has an existential and spiritual component that makes it fundamentally different from other forms of labor.

Psychologist James Hillman asked not whether pornography is moral or immoral, but what kind of culture creates this hunger for these kinds of images. A reflection on the crisis of imagination, displaced longing, and what eroticism is really about.

A response to a commenter who argued I was dismissing trans-identifying people — on why generalizing from observed patterns is acceptable in all other sociological discourse but treated as off-limits when applied to trans-identifying populations.

If sexual freedom is widely promoted as an antidote to shame, why do some women emerge carrying more of it rather than less? A co-authored psychological examination of the gap between the promise of liberation and the reality of lived experience.