The K sounds are hard, they rattle front to back, the I and N bump uglies, but its true audaciousness stems from its dishonesty. Kink is a bold title, one that, like an essay prompt, establishes simple parameters. In their introduction, the editors promise to reject ideas of “normalcy” while using kinks and kinky sex-what here amounts to mostly BDSM-to process “trauma” and “joy.” Kink, we are assured, can be “one of the tools we use to make sense of our lives.” Kwon, it features fifteen stories, some previously published and others new, about the range of sexual expression by a “roster of all-star contributors”: Roxane Gay, Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, and Brandon Taylor, among others. I have my own suspicions about why, despite the ubiquity of sex-on-demand dating apps and the rise of do-it-yourself porn, people are getting it on less than ever-but those lie in the Immortal Science, not in measuring T-levels.
Some researchers suggests it’s simply “ dropping testosterone levels” caused by a variety of health issues and the general aging of our population. Some studies blame our on-the-go lifestyle, while others finger the financial precarity and student loan debt forcing more millennials to move back in with their parents. Simon and Schuster, 288 pages.Īmericans just don’t fuck like they used to. Kink: Stories edited by Garth Greenwell and R.O.
