Welcome, new subscribers! We have so much for everyone to look forward to…
The mood is celebratory over here at Erotic Review. Last week, The New York Times Styles ran a feature on the magazine. Engagement and subscriptions have been through the roof. Founder Lucy Roeber and I want to take this moment to say welcome to all our new subscribers and tell you about the delights you have in store.
You’re in the right place if you’re curious about exploring desire through art and literature. We’re reframing the way sex, desire and the erotic are discussed and designed in the cultural sphere. In line with Audre Lorde, we understand the erotic as life force, and treat desire as a lens through which to explore our common humanity. Since relaunching as a biannual print magazine in March 2024, we’ve published new writers and cult theorists, Pulitzer and Booker Prize winners and pro-surfers, choreographers and environmental historians, and worked with art curators across varied cultures, practices and geographies.
The magazine’s growing international community loves to get together for in-person conversations at our sell-out live events, from the London Design Festival to the PornFilmFestival Berlin. Very soon we’ll be announcing details for a event in London with academics, sex workers and writers on 24 September.
I mentioned sales earlier, which always feels a little… on the nose, but for an indie publication like this one, it’s our life-blood. We are able to keep publishing and stay editorially independent because of the support of readers like you. If you like what we’re doing, take out a subscription, buy a copy at one of our 140+ international stockists, including Barnes & Noble in the US and tell a friend.
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Word of mouth is its own gold, not least because you might have Googled ermagazine.com and been told by the search engine that we do not exist. It’s not you, it’s the search engine deciding what’s appropriate content and what is not. This problem is not unique to this magazine. Lucy unpacks it all her essay ‘Sex Not Seggs’, which analyses the current tension between tech and anyone wanting to have an open conversation about sex and desire online. This essay is part of a theme that emerged from the spring/summer issue—Sex & Censorship — and that we’ve been deep-diving into here on Substack (across three dispatches per month). Next up are exclusive newsletter conversations with Cindy Gallop and Molly Crabapple.
The Autumn/Winter print issue comes out in mid-October. Stay tuned for the launch events in London and Berlin. And why not get involved and tell Polly Barton the one scene you would keep watching forever?
— Saskia Vogel
Polly Barton, author of Porn: An Oral History, has a question for you: “You are only permitted to watch one erotic scene for the rest of your life. Which will you choose?” This is a scene you return to and cherish. It could be an excerpt from a feature film, a porn clip, a TV series, something animated: anything goes, so long as it’s a moving image. Tell us about it…
Share your thoughts with us at the button below (up to 200 words). A selection will be published anonymously in the spring/summer 2027 issue, with an introductory essay by Barton. Closes 30 September.
Last week, Erotic Review was featured in The New York Times Styles section in a feature by Marie Solis. Read the full article below.
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