Magdalene Taylor is a writer and critic covering sex, gender and culture.

Magdalene Taylor is a writer and cultural critic whose work explores sex, gender, relationships, and the strange ways technology has transformed how men and women understand one another. The Washington Post recently referred to her as “one of the sharpest chroniclers and critics of heterofatalism.”

She is a Senior Editor at Playboy and the author of Many Such Cases, a newsletter about sex, culture, and contemporary life. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

She has appeared on NPR and other national media and has spoken at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics about the growing gender divide among young Americans.