FEATURE | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Froth (any/all) | Contributing Writer Illustrated by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor-in-Chief Kink. There are many different perceptions of that word. Some see it as a BookTok staple: muscular men in scream masks pinning you down. Maybe it’s something to try out on an adventurous weekend. Others see it as taboo, “weird sex shit.” Personally, kink is a staple part of my life and of my identity. It isn’t a hat I p

FEATURE | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Mathilde Redamare (they/them) | @MathildeRedamare on YouTube | Contributing Writer The Secret of the Night 1897, by Alphonse Osbert As a sucker for classic romance literature, I find the word chaser compelling. Romance stories told from a woman’s perspective are often built around the hunter-and-prey dynamic: the endorphin-producing high of pursuit, the glint of something animalistic in the pursuer’s eye, the chest heaving wi

THE HOT LESBIAN COLUMN | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Bella den Boogert (they/them) | @belladbb | Contributing Lesbian Illustrated by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor-in-Chief “Lesbian Bed Death” is a term I’ve encountered many times throughout my years dating women, mostly through online forums or the occasional inside joke with a fellow sapphic about our personal relationships. When I first encountered the term, I pictured my partner and me lying a

FEATURE | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Grace Hunter (she/her) | @gracee_hunter | Contributing Writer It’s easy to judge my participants. After all, 75% of them call themselves progressive yet still hold rigid assumptions about gender, sexuality, and consent. Perhaps they aren’t as evolved as you and I. We’re so evolved – we know not to force tea on an unconscious person. We get consent … right? Sure, we can pretend we’re immune, or we can do the hard, helpful thin

FEATURE | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Wren Probett (she/her) | @wrenneso | Contributing Writer I noticed I was being devoured, something I’d long desired above anything else. Two beautiful people were kissing along my neck and torso one Friday night, touching me, biting my ear, making me moan; I realised something. My whole life I’ve been composed of two parts, nerve and soft flesh. All action and interaction have been nothing more than a careful balancing act be

TE AO MĀORI | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Skye Lunson-Storey (they/them) | Whakatōhea, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa | @uku_rangi | Arts, Culture, and Te Ao Māori Editor Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique, 1804, Jean-Gabriel Charvet The present-day understandings of gender and sexuality of Indigenous people across te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa have been disrupted through the colonial gaze that enforced their Christian and heteropatriarchal values. Historically, such va

Help! I Can’t Find the Tea Under All of This Choking EDITORIAL | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor Kia ora e te whānau, and welcome to the dungeon. In last year’s Sex Issue editorial, I harped on about what the average everyday vanilla civilian could learn from the BDSM/kink community. How, you may reasonably ask, could activities so alarming to the respectable imagination possibly improve one’s relationship with intimacy?

COLUMN | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Luke Fisher (he/him) | @lukefish7__ | Sports Columnist Illustration by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor Meeting potential partners post-uni is hard. If you weren’t aware, I’ve transitioned to unc status, having graduated from AUT last year. Much like how America is a third-world country wearing a Gucci belt, I’m a child who can make small talk around a coffee machine and complain about the traffic. I guess I was hoping my

TE AO MĀORI | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Taigaga (Jamal) Rerecich (he/him) | @417mal | Contributing Writer I've always thought of myself as a social person. I like people, I like being around people, I like the noise and mess of whanaungatanga. So it surprised me, writing this piece, to realise that isolation is something I live inside every single day. Not the isolation of being alone, but the isolation of being somewhere nobody else I know can quite follow me into. La

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