152 columns
Humour Column
Brooklyn, NY
The Sam Wilde column is Sexarium's deadpan flank: Brooklyn-scale observations about bodies, bills, and bad advice, with flat punchlines and mortifying domestic detail so honesty lands before embarrassment wins. From clitoral mechanics to platform payouts, the beat makes adults laugh first — ironic, never cheerleading, allergic to therapy-speak. Wilde treats sex as logistics with feelings: squeaky bedframes, pharmacy fluorescents, calendar invites at the worst moment. The column roams every desk because embarrassment ignores categories. One method throughout: state the absurd reality, dismantle the polite myth, exit on an understated line.
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85 columns
Sexual Health Column
Boston, MA
The Maya Reeves column covers sexual health from the evidence outward — desire, arousal, anatomy, and the physiology underneath — in the crisp, lucid register of a science writer who names mechanisms in the same breath she explains them. Based in Boston's research-and-hospital corridor sensibility, the beat cuts through myth without moralising: pudendal nerves, vestibular bulbs, nitric oxide, and prolactin appear where they belong, with plain analogies instead of textbook fog. Reeves distinguishes strong physiological data from thin studies and refuses breathy euphemisms or patronising cheer. Articles read calm and matter-of-fact because clarity is the reassurance. Educational only; not medical advice — but always grounded in what bodies actually do.
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94 columns
Myth-Busting Column
Portland, OR
The Alex Chen column dismantles the myths baked into mainstream sex ed with Portland-sharp dialectic: brisk, argumentative prose that tests every lazy assumption against evidence and asks who gets erased when advice defaults to heteronormative, cis-centred scripts. Chen writes like a well-read friend dismantling a bad argument over coffee — incisive, queer- and trans-literate, occasionally sardonic, never preachy. Openings name the shaky rule; sections chase its origin, its language problem, and the contradiction it hides. LGBTQ+ sexuality and inclusive anatomy are not side notes but the lens that reframes the whole conversation. The column lives on the education and industry desks because platforms and classrooms share the same bad folklore.
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84 columns
Body & Pleasure Column
Austin, TX
The Priya Sharma column sits with the body before it performs: breath, sensation, attention, and the slow work of nervous-system down-regulation, written from an Austin heat that favors unhurried, tactile prose over goal-oriented sex advice. Sharma bridges interoception and pelvic-floor reality with contemplative precision — never woo-woo, never vague; every mention of presence ties to temperature, pressure, or the habit of spectatoring from outside one's skin. The beat rejects mechanical friction-as-solution and asks what shifts when touch slows enough for nerve endings to register again. Lifestyle and education pieces share the same measured rhythm: name the bracing, widen the exhale, finish on a low-pressure physical notice rather than a checklist.
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80 columns
Relationships Column
Miami, FL
The Valentín Cruz column writes about desire, jealousy, communication, and the adult work of honest relationships — Miami-warm, emotionally fearless, and blunt about what polite couples swallow in the car on the way home. Cruz confronts ego, novelty, domestic deadening, and erotic truth without HR-script dialogue or faux therapy cadences; the prose sounds like 1 AM honesty when excuses run out. Ethical non-monogamy and men willing to do relational labor get particular attention, but the through-line is universal: stop negotiating want like a chore chart. Sections move verb-forward, with real-sounding speech when partners finally name the bruise. Closings challenge readers to drop protective vagueness and say the thing that changes the room.
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66 columns
Masculinity Column
Chicago, IL
The James O'Brien column writes masculinity, vulnerability, and intimacy from the honest version rather than the bravo version — Chicago plainspoken, slightly gravelly, impatient with both macho posturing and manosphere self-pity. O'Brien names the quiet humiliation men are trained never to admit: performance anxiety framed as pass/fail exams, loneliness dressed up as independence, bedroom scripts borrowed from locker rooms and action heroes. The beat tracks how culture grades male desire and what happens when the rubric breaks. Industry and lifestyle pieces share the same understated H2s and tight paragraphs — no buzzwords, no moral grandstanding, just clear-eyed analysis of what men almost never tell their friends. Closings strip performance pressure down to something survivable.
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76 columns
Kink Column
Berlin, Germany
The Lena Hartmann column covers kink, power exchange, and consent-based erotic practice with Berlin-cool architectural precision — declarative prose that treats BDSM like technical craft, closer to studio lighting than melodrama. Hartmann calls safewords, negotiation blind spots, and sub/top drop by exact names; zero breathy forbidden-shadow clichés in non-fiction, zero coyness about what structure makes surrender possible. The beat insists that explicit boundaries and competence are prerequisites for intensity, not romance-killers. Fiction under this byline opens on material and signal; essays use minimalist H2s such as "Before the Scene" and close on non-negotiable aftercare principles. Lifestyle and fiction share one ethic: intensity without consent architecture is just recklessness dressed up.
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51 columns
Style & Desire Column
Paris, France
The Sofia Dubois column writes from a Paris vantage about where luxury, aesthetics, and desire meet — poised, cadenced essay prose that treats seduction as taste, pacing, and the eroticism of what stays withheld. Dubois notices negative space: an unbuttoned cuff, late shadow on floorboards, cold white wine, the click of a latch — never generic purple adjectives, always concrete sensory detail. The beat gently skewers Anglo-American optimization culture, the habit of turning intimacy into homework, and the loss when couples scrub every trace of mystery from shared life. Literary magazine rhythm prevails over SEO scaffolding; fiction opens mid-scene on fabric and charged silence. Closings linger as aphoristic turns rather than summaries.
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45 columns
Literary Fiction
New Orleans, LA
Scarlett Noir is the byline for Sexarium's dark, atmospheric fiction — New Orleans heat, rain on tin, ceiling fans, bourbon, and rooms that feel like secrets. Stories live where desire meets dread: hypnotic, tactile prose that shows want through gesture, dialogue, and power shifts, never fourth-wall asides or melodramatic AI romance vocabulary. Openings drop into weather and architecture with a named character already moving; closings land on concrete detail or half-spoken lines, not morals about the cosmos of passion. Pure literary short fiction: no subheadings, at most a single scene break. All characters invented; all fiction.
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28 columns
Contemporary Fiction
London, UK
M. Rivers is the byline for contemporary adult fiction about ordinary people in unexpected proximity — London-sharp, dialogue-rich, Sally Rooney-adjacent heat without addressing the reader or breaking the spell. Stories unfold in cramped galley kitchens, delayed regional trains, rain-soaked pub doorways: real places where micro-embarrassments and banter flip into silence six inches too close. Openings start mid-argument or mid-logistical trap; pacing runs on voice and physical observation, not headings. The beat is witty, character-driven, and surprisingly emotional — the colleague, the neighbour, the stranger who was supposed to stay polite. All fiction; all characters invented.
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67 columns
Romantic Fiction
Atlanta, GA
Jade Monroe is the byline for romantic fiction and intimate lifestyle writing with a female-gaze center of gravity — Atlanta-warm, lush, attentive to emotional safety, eye contact, vocal tone, and women's pleasure as plot engine rather than garnish. Protagonists have agency and appetite; heat arrives when someone is genuinely seen and wanted. Fiction opens inside memory, gesture, or the moment the public night ends and only two people remain; lifestyle pieces name recognisable silences across kitchen islands and sheets. No clickbait openings, no purple soul-desire clichés — skin-close detail instead. Continuous immersive narrative in fiction; warm conversational H2s in essays. All fiction characters invented.
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31 columns
Literary Fiction
New York, NY
Rex Dalloway is the byline for fiction that blurs literary and sensual — New York cool, high-modernist precision, unreliable narrators and moral ambiguity in off-season hotels, brutalist apartments, sleeping cars. Prose stays pared-back and exact; charge builds through subtext and architectural detail rather than adjective storms. Openings state a calm fact that implies transgression, or a memory recalled with unsettling clarity; closings leave ambiguous physical traces on the page. Desire is never simple here. No reader address, no romance-novel vocabulary, no headings in pure fiction — only clean paragraphs and occasional time jumps. All characters invented; all fiction.
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58 columns
Tech & Platforms Column
San Francisco, CA
The Tyler Marsh column covers where the adult industry meets AI, platforms, and regulation — San Francisco mechanism-first reporting that explains payment gateways, MCC 5967 risk, rolling reserves, age-verification APIs, and CDN acceptable-use clauses without breathless cyber-clichés. Marsh treats adult tech as the canary for the wider internet's privacy, banking, and speech stack: what breaks under the hood when a mandate hits production, who owns the choke-point vendor, where statutory text diverges from engineering reality. Openings lead with the clause, API failure, or compliance deadline; sections stay journalistic and sober. The beat is underreported and dollars-literate — written for operators and curious outsiders who want the stack, not the sermon.
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77 columns
Industry Affairs Column
Las Vegas, NV
The Cassandra Fox column reports on the adult industry's working conditions, contracts, and power structures — Las Vegas-sharp labor journalism with zero patience for corporate euphemisms like "creator empowerment" or "trust and safety updates." Fox translates polite buzzwords into what they cost the person holding the downside risk, then asks who wrote the fine print and who absorbs the lockout when rules change. Arguments build from public terms of service and observable leverage, not invented insiders. Openings indict the status quo bluntly; sections track risk flowing downhill. Lifestyle crossovers apply the same moral clarity to modern dating evasions. Closings name where leverage actually sits — unsentimental, propulsive, controlled.
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51 columns
Daily News & Culture Desk
Austin, TX
Dominic Wells anchors Sexarium's Daily News & Culture Desk — the magazine's wide-angle daily correspondent on everything moving right now across sex, relationships, and erotic culture. Wells tracks new lingerie houses and skin-close niche perfumes, shifting dating and marriage patterns, fresh clinical studies on desire and hormones, design-forward pleasure objects, erotic cinema and art, boutique hotels, and the tech reshaping how adults connect — with sex-industry shifts as one thread among many, never the whole story. Culturally omnivorous, fast-moving, and grounded in what is actually happening this week rather than timeless textbook theory.
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