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By Magenta Kaos (they/he) Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whare, Tūhoe “Sex Is Only Sex If There's Penetration” Sex education has long been lacking,...

By Georgia Wearing How did you get into hosting sex parties? I’ve always identified as kinky, as a teenager I scoured every corner of the...

By PHOEBE ROBERTSON Deepfake pornography has been called the future of revenge porn, but that term doesn’t quite capture it. Unlike...

By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) Trigger Warning: Discusses drug use. Testing of New Zealand’s wastewater over the last year has revealed an...

words by Will Irvine I never had the makings of a traditional doorman. I’m 5’11, 88kgs, and nowhere near close to intimidating. In high...

Words by Dorian (he/him) I’ve been to a few life drawing classes in my time as someone who sketches, though I had never thoroughly...

By Walter Hamer Zamalis The 2023 New Zealand general election was one in which Aotearoa saw nothing in its future, and so voted according...

By Shaw McEwan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Porou) and Taipari Taua (Muriwhenua, Ngāpuhi) Sex and love have always been...

Stories from a life spent behind the bar By Courtney Plaize (she/her) Being a female bartender is hard. Now add management and Courtenay...

By Diamond (she/her) Popular media has been paying special attention to sex work lately. Stripping has become Hollywood's new ‘darling’...

By Georgia Wearing We may have missed the prime years of clubbing when the 2000’s music wasn’t overdone, beers were $1, and the recession...

By Faun Watson A number of years ago, I started attending Wellington kink events with my then-partner. We had the same goals as many...

A Manifesto for the Troublesome Women of Courtenay Place Riona Chen (she/her) I go to the club to make genuine emotional connections and...

By Kaleb AI has its pervasive finger up everybody's prostate. You hear all through the halls of people making faustian bargains for a...

By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) If you’re a Computer Science major, you can stop wasting your money on tuition fees – vibe coding will take it...

Written by Ethan Rogacion (He/Him) | VUWSA Academic VP When Dan - of Salient News Editor fame - interviewed me a few weeks ago about...

By Te Urukeiha Tuhua AI is a new technology that we don’t fully understand yet, and it has the capacity to be used for good. But we...

By Noam Mānuka Lazarus It is no doubt that technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing are developing faster than...

By Jesse Richardson It’s surprising how quickly you can get used to the idea of the world ending. Four years ago, I barely knew anything...

Jackson McCarthy (with advice from the elusive Caliso Slonclover) My friends will find it deeply hilarious that I’m writing this piece,...