Perks Magazine

Rhonda reflects on how her experiences have shaped her view of relationships.

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

Melbourne-based artist and designer Baby Voodoo shares her love of all things naughty and nice with Perks Magazine.

Essena O’Neill may be weeping her carefully crafted ‘this is REAL’ and ‘I’m doing it for my 12-year-old-self’ story all over her website, but she is also asking you and me to send her money now that she has to make a living like the rest of us.

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

Rhonda explores why it’s socially acceptable for women to flirt and compliment, but not straight men.

When I think of sacred sexuality (or Tantra), it sets off my bullshit meter. I picture caftans and communes, or people publicly displaying a kind of seventies big-bush sexuality that feels particularly unsexy to me. Is this sex-negativity in spirituality’s clothing? Or is something else going on?

Through Bunnies Unbound, Kat Johnston hopes to break through some of the preconceptions people have about rope-based bondage, the people who practice it, and kink more broadly.

You won’t believe what happens when you read this click-bait article!

Rhonda learns a lesson in why some friendships are best left behind.

Rhonda’s commandments for love, lust and life.

From the blog: Rhonda Perky learns a tough lesson in feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

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.

Rhonda reflects on what makes the ‘perfect’ relationship.

Rhonda recalls her journey out of the crab basket and beyond the mould in which she was once cast.

Rhonda explores the nuances of consent and what happens when we are socialised to defer to the needs of others or to push past no.

Rhonda reflects on the rise and fall of desire in a long term relationship.

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’?