PERSONAL ESSAYS


Nerve's Ten Best Personal Essays:
From the 6th Anniversary Special Issue

We will feature one of our favorite essays each weekday from June 23-July 4.
   
As I Lay Sleeping by Amy Bloom
"'You do it,' I said. 'You go ahead without me.'"  
Black-Eyed Glee by Nancy Jo Sales
Explore your relationship with a little consensual fighting and biting.
Ass Backwards by Kevin Keck
He tried a girl's backdoor. But could he unlock his own?  
Blaspheme by Jay Kirk
The son of a preacher man falls far, far, far from grace.  
Innocence in Extremis by Debra Boxer
The author explains virginity at twenty-eight.
My New Penis by John Blum
For all his teenage years, the author was incapable of having an erection. Then he got bionic.  
Some of My Best Friends Are Sensualists by Lisa Carver
Candlelight and jazz be damned. The author has no time for foreplay.  
The Devil Inside by Lauren Slater
What is a sex addict? What does it mean when your father says he's one of them?
Trials of a Gay-Seeming Straight Male by Leif Ueland
An ambivalent heterosexual comes out in favor of sexual pluralism. 
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