Tummy Ache, Issue 5 – The Horny Issue

‘Dedicated to emotional exploration’

Combining slow fashion, art and conversations on mental health, each issue of the small-format and introspective Tummy Ache is dedicated to exploring a single emotion through essays, interviews, poetry and more, with the aim of challenging ‘a culture of emotional stagnation.’

In this issue:

In this disembodied world, to be horny, is to be subversive.

Exploring the intricacies of sexuality, desire, the body as sex object, site of objection and abjection.

Pleasurable and political, intimate and public; horniness is increasingly difficult to locate. Within a culture that manufactures desire, monetises attention and sells sex back to us, we are often left with little room to engage curiously and openly with our own wants.

Vol.5 is dripping in abjection; sweat, piss, cum and spit. Our writers and interviewees reach into the cavities of horniness. In a moment of increased disconnection, digital mediation and consumerism, to desire from one’s body – not for the sake of reproduction or social uplift but purely driven by horniness – could be seen as radically unproductive.