When Mother talks, you listen. Mother, of course, is the inimitable Pat McGrath. Her eponymous cosmetics line has become an instant favorite of editors, influencers, makeup artists, and consumers since she launched her first product (Gold 001) in 2015. Now Pat McGrath Labs is valued at a billion dollars and offers a vast array of…
Kinks and fetishes are less taboo than ever—ours is a post Fifty Shades of Grey world where BDSM has become mainstream and shows like Broad City, Hot Girls Wanted, and Slutever have helped normalize everything from pegging to cannasexuality. It’s real progress, but it doesn’t erase the fact that for many of us, fetishes can…
The first time Ceara Lynch dipped a toe in the world of sex work, she was 17 and a long way from home. A high school student who had grown up in the Portland, Oregon, area, Lynch was doing a semester abroad as an exchange student in Japan. She didn’t know the language, or anyone…