Articles by Chloe Cross
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This Guy Makes Life-Size Child Dolls Wearing Lingerie
Before you berate me for immediately assuming these dolls are for pedophiles, consider that there is no male counterpart, they wear lingerie, and just look at the pictures. Also, most of the customers are adult men. Weird, huh? Full story
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I Make Jewellery Out of My Cat's Fur Balls
You know what's at the absolute top of my birthday list this year? A necklace made out of greasy cat fur balls, rolled up into pretty little orbs and encased in wire. Thank Christ I live in 2013, the exact time in history that San Francisco artist, jeweller, and cat poet Flora Da… Full story
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Some People Made a Breastfeeding Baby Toy
To discover why anyone would make a toy that allows children to mock-lactate, I called up Berjuan Toys, the makers of the Breastmilk Baby, and talked to an anonymous spokesman. Turns out they think we're the creepy ones. Full story
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Can Any of These DIY Sex Toys Make Me Orgasm?
A book I stole from a hospital waiting room the other day called 'Make Your Own Sex Toys: A Practical Guide to a Better Love Life' instructs you on how to make the moist out of average household items like cucumbers, elastic, and curtain rings. I decided to try out a few of my fa… Full story
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What's So Scary About Sluts?
Halloween is the only holiday I’m aware of that is essentially just an excuse for even the most shy and boring girls to walk around self-identifying as prostitutes without getting bitched-slapped by other girls or followed home by skanky men. In an effort to find out why women fe… Full story
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Hey Internet, Do These Boys Want Me or Not?
Lots of girls (not all of them, just the ones like me, the ones with hair and tits and smartphones) are really fucking weird. We spend a scary amount of time deciphering texts from losers with potentially cute dicks, and often we can't make heads or tails of what they're saying. Full story
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I Took Female Viagra for a Week
I was so over fucking my last boyfriend. We were together for four years, and by the third of those my libido was as MIA as he seemed to think my clitoris was. You know what would have made my life a bit easier during that dark time? A big, fat dose of Viagra. If it works for old… Full story
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Question of the Day
Would You Rather Finger Your Mom and Nobody Knows, Or Not Finger Her but Everyone Thinks You Did?
We came up with a question that may well have no concrete answer, but one that academics and learned thinkers still devote seminars, lectures, and private thought-sessions to. Would you rather finger your mom and nobody knows, or not finger her but everyone thinks you did? Full story
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