About - Many Such Cases

I’m Magdalene Joy Taylor, and I’m a writer exploring themes of sexuality and culture. More specifically, I explore how the two intersect and inform each other. As a freelancer, I’ve contributed to publications like The New York Times, New York Magazine, VICE, GQ, Bustle, Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Jezebel, Huck, UnHerd, The Face and more. I live in Brooklyn but am from God’s Country, Western Massachusetts.

About Many Such Cases

Many Such Cases is my platform to analyze our sexual culture and all of the niches, interpersonal behaviors and trends that have emerged from it through a critical, sex-informed (not necessarily sex positive!) lens. This is a Substack about sexuality, but also the loneliness epidemic. People in America are almost universally having less sex now than in previous decades — what does that mean for our culture? How does sexuality manifest in the absence of physical intimacy?

Here I’ll explore the broader strokes of how this dynamic has impacted us, as well as some of the subcultures and quirks that have emerged. The title “Many Such Cases” is tongue-in-cheek, but it reflects a broader reality: nearly any story or situation you consider to be a one-off or abnormality in fact has dozens, hundreds, thousands of cases just like it. This is, I think, more true about sexuality than anything else.

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A dissection of sexuality and culture in the absence of much of either.

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Magdalene Taylor is a writer and critic of culture and sex. She has written for the New York Times, GQ, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, i-D, VICE, Vulture and more. She publishes a Substack newsletter called Many Such Cases.