The French Chateau of Endless Pleasure
An account of a weekend at Hedoné, a European experiment in organised pleasure, and what it suggests about intimacy, ritual and consent when they are deliberately designed.
Essay and Articles
Sex, Love & Relationships
Subject grouping in the Essays & Articles archive.
Essay and Articles
Eros Unredeemed, Reality Sandwich, May 2012
Appearing on Reality Sandwich in May 2012, this rereading of Dieter Duhm’s Eros Unredeemed argues that no political revolution will succeed without a prior revolution in love and sexuality. Pinchbeck connects Duhm’s case against exclusive fidelity to Gerald Heard’s Pain, Sex, and Time, and notes his visit to Tamera, the community Duhm founded in Portugal.
Essay and Articles
The Sexual Revolution, Take Two, Conscious Choice, August 2007
A Conscious Choice column from August 2007. After a separation in which monogamy stopped working for him, Pinchbeck asks whether other models of relationship are possible or desirable, and frames the present as a second and more conscious phase of the sexual revolution that crested thirty-five years earlier.