The column, which began in 2007, is the basis of a docuseries on hbo. The editors of this magazine asked me to read all 800 pages of the sex diaries, and, using them as a source text, develop some kind of taxonomy of contemporary sexual anxieties. In 2007, new york magazine launched its “sex diaries” column, turning readers into a mass of eager voyeurs getting their jollies by peering into random new yorkers’ bedrooms (or bathrooms, or kitchens, or public restrooms of choice) each week Over the years, the column has done more than just entertain It’s become an exhaustive, longitudinal catalogue of the ways people fuck in. Sex diaries weekly sex diaries as told to alyssa shelasky day one 10 a.m
I don’t get out of bed before 10 a.m Wake up, check my phone My boyfriend has sent me his flight schedule for the night These are the diaries that blew up our group texts, inspired an internet conspiracy or two, and still make us blush all these years later. Three acts of intercourse… the pregnant waitress two instances of flirting with boss…
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