Tracy Clark-Flory

9/15/21

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…

9/14/21

Crazy Women, 'Fiery Latinas,' and 'Masculine Sexual Essence': The Bestselling Book That Teaches Men What a Woman Wants

David Deida's 1997 book The Way of the Superior Man is still influencing a generation of writers

8/11/21

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

8/2/21

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

7/27/21

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

7/14/21

Swimming into the Unknown with Author Bonnie Tsui

Facing my fear of jellyfish, great whites, and stingrays

7/7/21

All Roads Lead to Himbo: My Wellness Journey With Chris Hemsworth

A workout, smoothie, and meditation with Australia's most famous Chris

6/24/21

Useless SESTA/FOSTA Bill Caused Exactly the Devastation Predicted By Sex Workers

"They should probably listen to impacted people who are doing this work"

6/10/21

'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…

5/24/21

Justin Baldoni's <i>Man Enough</i> Is a Shallow Study of Men's Tender Feelings

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…

5/7/21

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…

The Suburbs

<i>Fifty Shades</i>, Pole Dancing, and Secret Swingers: The Mythology of the 'Sex-Mad' Suburban Woman

The Suburbs

Fifty Shades, Pole Dancing, and Secret Swingers: The Mythology of the 'Sex-Mad' Suburban Woman

The stereotypical image of the suburban woman is one of selflessness, order, and safety: identical houses, minivans…

4/14/21

From Boy Band Thrusting to the Magic Mike 'Dolphin': A Vital, Long Overdue History of Stage Humping

A couple of years ago, I was in the second row of Magic Mike Live watching several ripped, shirtless men doing a…

3/30/21

Roses, Blindfolds, and Chopped Wood: Meet the Popular TikTokers Making Romantic Thirst Traps for Women

Thoren Bradley can be found in dozens of TikTok videos chopping wood in his backyard in rural Northern California,…

3/4/21

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…

'90s Week

Living Vicariously Through the '90s <i>Teen Beat </i>Bad Boy

'90s Week

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…

Book Excerpt

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…

Biden Administration

OK, Now I Cry

Going into today’s inauguration, I could acknowledge the significance of Americans electing our first Black, South…

Childcare

Politicians Like Andrew Yang Need to Do More Than Just Horrifiedly 'Imagine' the Childcare Crisis

The New York Times asks today whether Andrew Yang is New York enough to run for mayor of New York City, the city…

1/7/21

'Brotherhood Is Healing': When Men's Self-Help Groups Collide With Covid Restrictions

Late last month, the self-help coach Jordan Maurice Bowditch posted a comedically wide-eyed photo of himself on…

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