The writer, actor and artist talks to PRUDE about their debut novel and the importance of going against the grain in the publishing industry.
“When did you know you were dead?” is the harrowing line with which Lauren John Joseph begins their debut novel, immediately flipping the trope of the queer character that dies at…
It was a normal Friday night in Oxford in March 2019. As usual, my flatmates and I decided to go out clubbing. This involved getting way too drunk in an attempt to forget life's troubles.
I had just lost my virginity earlier that year and, for some reason, I thought that gave me some sort…
Ah, the ick. A now-infamous term that embodies the one thing about a person you can’t see past, leading you to almost instant and irreversible repulsion. Maybe your worst ick is your date running onto the tube and the doors staying open for minutes afterwards, or someone who chews loudly. Perhaps you think more outside…
It was late afternoon on a bright summer’s day and punters were out in their droves, seeking beer gardens in which to soak up the sun. I slouched against the wall of the pub we’d agreed to meet at, as the minutes stretched into a just-about-forgivable eight-minute tardiness.
The longer I awaited my Tinder date’s…
The PRUDE team go head-to-head in the first of many quickfire competitions with a sexy twist. Up first: was this line said on daytime TV or in a porn film?
Enjoyed this game? Take a quiz here: Quiz – Which sex toy are you?
In my first year of university, I was (like most people) a bit of a poser. Still am.
One evening in Spring, I’d just bought a super-fake Chanel short suit from Zara - and I was so proud I went to sit in the British Film Institute Southbank lobby to get noticed. And noticed I…
Mystified by monogamy? Lost in the lingerie aisle? Confused by kinks or struggling with sex in general? Our resident agony aunt Prudence offers answers to PRUDE readers’ problems, to help direct and soothe, or at least make you laugh…
Q. Help! This girl I met on Hinge has a rule of ‘nothing til the…
Looking back, perhaps I shouldn’t have met the parents of my (now ex-) boyfriend of a month-and-a-half that early into ‘officialdom’. We had met through a pretentious university society, and I didn’t actually have anything in common with him. But he was supposed to be my first ‘proper relationship’, and I thought being introduced to…
“Sexuality is so fluid. I don’t think you can fit into one box.” Sharon Gaffka on navigating identity, being fetishised and dating after Love Island.
“Sorry, I’m just sitting in bed. I feel like I’m never in it anymore so I’m taking any opportunity I can.”
Sharon Gaffka lounges in front of a black velvet…
When it comes to legislation and education surrounding sex and gender, the Scottish government is no stranger to backlash from angry conservative outlets. Whether it's towards last week’s proposed amendments to the Gender Recognition Act or an educational resource involving a “stomach-churningly horrible connection” made between anal sex and banana dipped in a tub of…