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Nicole R. Goode, M.A., ABS

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) candidate

I am a psychologist, sociologist, sexologist, and erotologist. Subscribe and join over 1,000+ newsletter readers every week!

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The April Issue Has Arrived. Taboo? Absolutely. Necessary? Even more.

The APRIL 2026 issue of Psyche, Sex, & Society has officially arrived, and this one goes straight for the places culture tells us to avoid. We are pulling apart the relationship scripts so many of us inherited without ever consenting to them. We are asking the questions that cut to the bone of relational agency. We are naming the truths that get flattened into caricature. This issue is inviting you back to the center of your own desire, your own authorship, your own relational design. Inside...

21 days ago • 1 min read

The wait is over. The March 2026 issue of Psyche, Sex, & Society dropped yesterday, and it is one of our most powerful issues yet. This month, we don’t just honor women’s history. We honor women’s power—the ancestral, embodied, world‑shaping force that predates the written record and outlives every attempt to silence it. Inside this issue, you’ll find: 🌍A return to African-centered visions of sacred womanhood 👑A grounding exploration of the Womanist stance and cultural sovereignty ⚡A sharp,...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

The February 2026 issue of Psyche, Sex, & Society has officially dropped. This month, we journey into the living body. Into rhythm. Into intimacy. Into reclamation. Inside this issue: ✨ Lunar-Erotic Mapping: Reclaiming Rhythm, Intimacy, and the Healing BodyExplore how cyclical awareness can transform the way we understand desire, connection, and embodied healing. 🌊 The Lunar Body: Women’s Erogenous Tides, Liquid Sexuality, and the Art of Mutual SeductionDiscover sexuality as fluid,...

3 months ago • 1 min read

The January 2026 issue of Psyche, Sex, & Society is here, and it goes straight to the root. This issue invites readers into bold, necessary conversations about power, identity, and human wholeness in a world shaped by Eurocentric patriarchy. Inside, we explore: 🜁 Same Monsters, Different BodiesHow Eurocentric patriarchy distorts masculinity, femininity, and our collective humanity in the United States 🜁 The Divine Feminine & Divine MasculineEnergies, consciousness, and sacred ways of being...

4 months ago • 1 min read

The December 2025 issue of Psyche, Sex, & Society is officially here. This is an invitation to return home to love in its most expansive, liberatory form. In our eleventh issue, we disrupt inherited scripts of love and desire by expanding the language of love, decolonizing sex and intimacy, and reimagining romance as an embodied, erotic way of living. Inside this issue, you’ll explore: What it truly means to romanticize life—transforming the everyday into the erotic and living love as a...

5 months ago • 1 min read

The wait is over! Our November 2025 issue of Psyche, Sex, & Society has officially arrived, and it is one of our most liberatory and soul-stirring editions yet. This month, we journey deeper into the intersections of intimacy, identity, liberation, and collective healing. Our November issue is packed with culturally grounded conversations, embodied scholarship, and transformative narratives designed to shift how we think about desire, power, and pleasure in our everyday lives. From ancestral...

6 months ago • 1 min read

There are moments when art, spirit, and sensuality converge—when the cosmos seems to whisper back our own longings, encoded in the language of stars. The October 2025 issue of Psyche, Sex, & Society rises from that liminal veil—a space where the erotic is not merely physical but cosmic; where intimacy becomes initiation; and where self-knowledge unfolds through constellations of desire. Inside this issue: 💫 Astrological Lovers & Sex Signs — Discover how your zodiac shapes your erotic...

7 months ago • 1 min read

The eighth edition of Psyche, Sex, & Society has arrived, and this month we invite you to step into the world of dance not as a spectator but as an initiate. This issue dares us to explore erotic and sensual movement as ritual, intimacy, and liberation—where eros, spirit, and body move as one. Inside, you’ll find: Beyond Entertainment: The Sacred Feminine Origins of Erotic Dance—a journey into movement’s earliest expressions as prayer, invocation, and ceremony, where eroticism connected us to...

8 months ago • 1 min read

The August 2025 issue of Psyche, Sex, & Society just dropped—and it’s a doozy. If you must clutch your pearls, hold them tight, because we are diving into an unflinching conversation. This month, we explore: Sex work, industry, and economy—how markets shape desire and survival. The legacies of madams who built sophisticated sex work agencies and redefined business leadership. The contested terrain of sex work regulation, revealing how policies mirror society’s deepest anxieties about women’s...

9 months ago • 1 min read

The latest issue of Psyche, Sex, & Society Magazine is live—and it’s one of our boldest yet. This month, we explore the transformative power of Being Domme, the layered realities of BDSM, and the liberatory possibilities of Kink. Far beyond stereotypes, we unpack how power, when rooted in consent, becomes a tool for healing, agency, and radical self-authorship. Inside this issue: The erotic as a site of reclamation Domme as a pathway to power and pleasure Breaking generational shame around...

10 months ago • 1 min read