Perks Magazine

Want to explore the pleasures of playing with rope? Rope Sensei has got your back.

Or, why you shouldn’t try to save the people you want to f*ck

Through Bunnies Unbound, Kat Johnston hopes to break through some of the preconceptions people have about rope-based bondage, the people who practice it, and kink more broadly.

Rhonda explores her toxic relationship with body image, attachment to self-criticism, and aversion to self-acceptance.

What monogamy really asks of our long-term partners and ourselves.

Essena O’Neill may be weeping her carefully crafted ‘this is REAL’ and ‘I’m doing it for my 12-year-old-self’ story all over her website, but she is also asking you and me to send her money now that she has to make a living like the rest of us.

Rhonda Perky examines how everyday paternalism shifts accountability, and asks: ‘What makes us uncomfortable? Whose behaviour is really the problem? Where does the accountability lie?’

Melbourne-based artist and designer Baby Voodoo shares her love of all things naughty and nice with Perks Magazine.

Clarissa-Jan Lim shares the story of a self-proclaimed feminist BDSM couple Ian Locklear and Nicole Lavoie and the ways they reconcile their feminist views with their D/s lifestyle…

Mistress Heather shares her heartbreak over having to leave her hometown.

In the heat of the moment, whose threesome is it, anyway? Rhonda explores the gap between fantasy and reality.

Rhonda reflects on surviving as a unicorn in the Swinger’s Scene.

Objectifying images may be less comfortable and more confronting to watch, but they can evoke a more direct physical response. But what if there is an emotional cost of continually engaging in this kind of ‘disturbing arousal’?

The first in a series of posts where Rhonda explores self-image, projection, and the ego-defences we use to preserve our sense of self.

Is there such a thing as the ‘right’ number of partners?

Rhonda explores the grief around her choice not to have children, from societal pressures, childhood trauma, and the state of the world today.

Rhonda Perky goes under the covers to discover what it means to be a Modern Slut.

Negotiating safe sex should be straightforward. But when those involved fear rejection and judgement, when we associate asking for a condom with calling someone ‘dirty’, when we are socialised to defer to others, it gets complicated.

In Part Two of this exploration of self-image, projection, and the ego-defences, Rhonda explores the unreliability of memory.

Rhonda reflects on her struggles to follow her dreams, trapped by the safety and security of inertia.