Letter from the Editors
Our world is filled with erotic energy.
The word erotic is loaded and, at best, ambiguous; yet, for most of us, it’s also excitatory. It elicits
sensations, memories, fantasies, an entire world that is most often submerged below the surface of our
everyday selves. But what, exactly, is erotic and what does it mean to publish a magazine dedicated to
the erotic in arts and literature?
Perhaps in contemplating the erotic, we should gaze backwards toward ancient Greece where the
concept was borne from the flutter of Eros’s wings. The word erotic comes from the Greek myth of Eros.
Eros, once a primordial force within the universe and then, in later myths, the offspring of Aphrodite and
Ares, Eros came to represent those forces of love and fertility. In part, the early myths have endured and
even transmutated from culture to culture because they capture the complexity of the human experience and distill it into simple archetypes and stories. Eros is no different. Though Eros’s origins evolved over time, he has remained a force active in the lives of all of us, igniting within us our own carnality and desire.
With this in mind, I like to think of Eros as the seat of our soul from which the most primal and sexual
parts of our natures emerge. The erotic, then, is the form in which our carnality takes shape.
When contemplating the themes of Pink Disco, I thought hard about what it means to feel that energy.
On the one hand, we could easily look at what has become commodified as sex in our society and point
to that as erotic. To some extent, this works. But I also firmly believe some of the most potent sex we
encounter is found in the sublime and secret whispers of our everyday lives.
Don’t get me wrong. Pink Disco welcomes latex, leather, nipple clamps, and feathers. We want to see your O face. But we also believe the most explicit sex is not an isolated act but the apex of the totality of our experience; it is a celebration of what it means to be human, to have a body, and to experience sensation.
Pink Disco, then, is a celebration of the erotic, our carnality, our bodies, and ultimately our humanness.
Come play with us.
Pink
ALL TIED UP
June 20, 2025
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
To be Written. My letter will be a bit shorter than usual since I am also contributing an essay and a letter introducing the prize
winners.
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This issue’s playlist can be found here.
Letter from the Art Editor
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This issue’s playlist can be found here.
Fiction Contest
Intro, TBD....
FIRST PLACE
Wild Children
SECOND PLACE
The First Meeting
THIRD PLACE
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Visual Art
The Human Domain 44
The Human Domain 45
The Human Domain 46
The Human Domain 47
The Human Domain 48
The Human Domain 49
Fatehpur454
Back
The Baker
Poetry
“Write a poem about the difference between love and erotica”
Sex Duplex
the night gardener
A Vision at the Lake
Anxious Attachment Style
I, Pagan
Nonfiction
All Tied Up: A Conversation with Lee Harrington
The Full Moon
Even the Pornstars are Clipfarming
UHS Class of ’71
Mine. Myn. Min.
Fiction
Wedding Preparations
The Cruise
Noon
Nude Tuesday
