Mr. Sinclair Sexsmith

Writer, Performer, Student and Teacher of Sex, Gender & Relationships

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On Making Sex Last: Cheerleading & Open Relationships

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My newest piece about making love and sex last in long term relationships is up over at the Good Vibrations Magazine:
I’ve asked a couple people recently what their secrets were for their successful long-term relationship, how they keep the passion alive, how they keep walking that delicate line of having [...]

Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show

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As Lynnee Breedlove accepted the Lammy award for the Trans category earlier this year, at the podium he quipped, “People ask me all the time whether I’m a boy or a girl and I say, ‘Why are you asking me? Do I look like I know?’” Delivered with perfect comic [...]

Heavenly Spire: An Interview with Shine Louise Houston

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My interview with Shine Louise Houston is up on CarnalNation!
Filmmaker Shine Louise Houston, who brought you the queer porn Crash Pad Series web episodes and the feature-length films Champion, Wild Kingdom, and Superfreak, has started a new online web project depicting masculine sexualities in a visual medium. Heavenly Spire [...]

Radical Masculinity: Masculinity & Dominance

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My latest Radical Masculinity column is up over at CarnalNation:
Masculinity is not essential to the recipe of being a dominant sexual partner. And yet, this identity alignment assumption, the assumption that masculinity and dominance go together and are always aligned, prevails in nearly all aspects of contemporary Western culture, [...]

The Ongoing Quest To Be Sexually Fulfilled

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My first piece is up over on the magazine run by Good Vibrations, and this one is about The Ongoing Quest To Be Sexually Fulfilled, about having an active sex life within a long term relationship.
That’s where that whole online writing project (aka blog) of mine started, really: in an [...]

New to You: A Review of Good Porn

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My review of the Seal Press book Good Porn is up on CarnalNation!
It’s difficult for me to critique this book: Lust consumes porn in similar ways that I do, and we have a similar history with viewing porn, so most of my responses to this consist of, “yeah, so [...]

The “Lesbian Who Sleeps With a Man” Trope in “The Kids Are All Right”

I spent almost a week on this after I saw the film. It turned out to be a bit of an opus, about six pages long, and AfterEllen.com graciously told me they would run it.

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Here’s a little teaser of my thoughts:
What if this depiction of that trope, of [...]

Grim Consequences: When Young People Get Laid

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My review of Laid: Young People’s Experiences with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture is up on CarnalNation:
Perhaps I had unrealistically high expectations for this book. “The basement smelled like sex,” the book starts. “That thick, musty scent that sits in the air and clings to everything it touches. I [...]

Five Poets Who Changed My Life on Lambda Literary Foundation

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In honor of National Poetry Month in April, Lambda Literary Foundation started running a series on Five Poets Who Changed My Life by various authors, poets, and writers. It took me a while, but I finally finished mine, and it’s up on the Lambda Literary Foundation website.

Podcast Interview: Dominance on the Masocast

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Conversation with Unspeakable Axe, Sade, Kristen, and me about dominance and submission, sexual needs within a relationship, and getting what you want in bed. Listen to the whole thing over on masocast.com.