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A companion piece to my memoir Unshaming, here I talk about shame one post at a time. I cover addiction, relationships, sex, recovery, arts and culture. Sometimes when I feel particularly weak, I post work-in-progress.

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What Do Women Want and how to get to the softness of WAP?

Having been in some interesting debates lately about size and female pleasure here on Substack, I’ve been thinking about the thus far largely unanswered question of all humanity: “What do Women Want?” Okay, sure, people have been trying to...

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Men Can't Write Women Having Sex

Why confidence is the enemy of good sex writing

The essay was about shared orgasm. A man and a woman in some sort of mirrored room, presumably, the man describing the sex while confidently imagining what his partner was feeling as they sup...

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The Last Time We F*cked

But I keep writing them. And I keep dreaming of having a short-story collection one day. But I am told “short stories don’t sell,” and the filthy, eager animal inside me dies again. This is the animal that writes the story, a cross between...

21 days ago
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Is this really about dick size?

The other night, late at night, I was browsing through Substack and a new essay popped up written by a guy about how women want big dicks and how life isn’t fair. Because I have troll tendencies, I occasionally leave unsolicited comments on...

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Today I hate men

“Can I pet your dog?” the man on the streetcar says, then proceeds to try to pet my chihuahua who, as usual, is freaked out by being on public transit and is trembling like a leaf. I grabbed the streetcar to get home quickly because I worri...

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    Author of five books including Unshaming (Mar 2026), a book about shame, recovery, relapse, failure and hope.

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