Perks Magazine

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

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

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.

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

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!

‘What if a girl says yes, then changes her mind?’ Rhonda provides some clarity on why the only yes is a sober and enthusiastic one.

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?

A response to Jim Dowd’s ‘The Shootings Are Not Senseless’.

Lady Chatterley shares her non-monogamous memoir.

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

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

Does sex necessarily involve power? Not just Domination and submission, but non-BDSM sex? Rhonda Perky explores questions of power and privilege inherent in sex.

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

Rhonda Perky reflects on living with endometriosis for the past 20 years.

Rhonda Perky examines how everyday paternalism shifts accountability, and asks: ‘What makes us uncomfortable? Whose behaviour is really the problem? Where does the accountability lie?’

Rhonda faces some of the pitfalls of making friends as an adult and what can happen when one friend needs the company of the other more.

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

Negotiating safe sex should be straightforward. But when those involved fear rejection and judgement, when we associate asking for a condom with calling someone ‘dirty’, when we are socialised to defer to others, it gets complicated.

If I had three wishes…