Love & Sex 2022

You hold in your hands (or on your screen) the product of about a million emails. When we set out to compile our annual Love & Sex issue, we start there, accepting pitches from around the Love & Sex-o-sphere with an emphasis on finding stories that matter. We get many a good idea from many a good writer, but we ultimately hope to provide pieces of substance; things that might help or alter your perspective or even just realize that sex workers are people providing an essential service. This year’s pieces skew a little darker, too. We’re fighting a pandemic, after all, and love, sex and all the little bête noire in between aren’t always pretty. You’ll learn why it’s always important to get back on that horse (page 18) and why it’s not always so easy to walk away from that volatile relationship (page 15). But you’ll also meet folks expressing their sexuality well into life (opposite page), hear about plans to love more fully after this COVID-19 business finally stops (page 14) and how a new generation of content creators are celebrating body positivity while taking hold of their own financial futures. We know it’s not easy to love well in this era of lockdowns and distancing, we know sex maybe doesn’t quite feel like it used to feel. But we also know you’re likely not alone, either, when it comes to how you love and fuck and feel.