Perks Magazine

Carl Skase offers you the listicle to end all listicles: 69 ways to balance cats on your breasts. Or, a tribute to what the internet does best!

We review Jillian Keenan’s memoir on Shakespeare, love, and spanking: a story not just for kinksters and fetishists, but for everyone.

Sex ‘addiction’ has become a label we slap on anyone we perceive as having a higher than ‘normal’ sex drive (whatever that is) or whose behaviour sits outside social norms (whatever those are). Is this just another form of slut-shaming?

Rhonda explores her toxic relationship with body image, attachment to self-criticism, and aversion to self-acceptance.

Thinking of buying a sex toy? Victoria from Passionfruit The Sensuality Shop talks sex toys, the sex toy industry, and how to find the right fit for you.

Think if you’ve seen one sex shop you’ve seen them all? Look again. Michelle Temminghoff talks about what makes Passionfruit The Sensuality Shop in Melbourne, Australia, more than just an adult store.

Sexual violence and acts of sexual coercion are commonplace, yet many of these crimes go unreported, never make it to court, or get thrown out once they do. We take a closer look at why.

Rhonda chats to Natalie Swedosh about her Strike Up A Chat social interaction initiative that helps women and men reconnect in person.

Carl Skase contemplates some of the worst places you can have sex.

Unless we make room for open and honest communication early on, we can only end up with a host of dissatisfied people, constantly seeking one thing, but finding another.

Rhonda reflects on her struggles to follow her dreams, trapped by the safety and security of inertia.

Rhonda reflects on what makes the ‘perfect’ relationship.

Rhonda struggles to define what ‘relationship’ might mean while still exploring her sexuality.

If I had three wishes…

Objectifying images may be less comfortable and more confronting to watch, but they can evoke a more direct physical response. But what if there is an emotional cost of continually engaging in this kind of ‘disturbing arousal’?

A letter to you, Dad. Because it’s complicated.

Rhonda explores the grief around her choice not to have children, from societal pressures, childhood trauma, and the state of the world today.

Rhonda reflects on surviving as a unicorn in the Swinger’s Scene.

Rhonda reveals her struggle with jealousy and what it means to hold on by letting go.

I can’t change the way we objectify and value physical appearance; I can only change the way I see myself. I am more than my appearance, more than my achievements, and I don’t have to be seen to have value.