Tummy Ache is a new magazine that explores the dangers of building up a ‘perfect’ version of the self to present to the world, and hiding from the imperfection and uncertainties of life. This, the magazine says, is in turn dissolving our capacity to feel gratitude, creativity and empathy.
About the third issue of Tummy Ache ('The Horny Issue') from the publisher:
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.
