About
Neon Pulse
A sex-positive magazine of literary fiction, photography, and culture. For adults who take desire seriously — as subject matter, as art, as lived experience. No hedging. No apology. No guilty secrets.
Why this
Magazine
Exists
There is no shortage of publications that touch on sexuality. There is a shortage of publications that treat it with the same seriousness they bring to any other subject worth writing about.
Neon Pulse was built to occupy that space — between literary magazine and art publication, between erotic and artistic, between the culture we live in and the desires we mostly don’t discuss in print.
We publish fiction that earns its explicitness. Photography that creates beauty and desire simultaneously. Essays from people whose lived experience in sex work, kink, and alternative life is worth reading — not as confession or curiosity, but as literature.
The magazine is sex-work positive, kink-friendly, desire-forward, and inclusive without centring any single identity or community. Its primary reader is a woman. Its door is open to everyone.
Sex-Work Positive
Sex workers are contributors, subjects, and readers — not a niche or a footnote. Their voices appear throughout the magazine, not only in one dedicated corner.
Kink & Fetish Friendly
Alternative sexualities and lifestyles are woven through the editorial range. Kink and fetish content is not siloed — it is part of the magazine’s normal vocabulary.
Desire-Forward
The pictorials are intentional and unapologetic. The goal is beauty and desire simultaneously — not titillation, and not the hedged aesthetics of mainstream lifestyle publishing.
Inclusive Without a Lane
All genders, all orientations, all relationship structures are valid subject matter. No single community is assumed as the default audience. The magazine speaks to people, not demographics.
Female-Focused, Not Exclusionary
The primary reader is a woman. The magazine speaks to her directly and without condescension — without shutting anyone else out.
Craft Above All
Literary quality is the primary criterion for everything we publish. Explicitness does not lower the bar — it raises it. We hold desire to the same standard as any other subject in serious publishing.
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"Neon Pulse is a sex-positive magazine of fiction, photography, and culture for adults who want more than they're usually given."
— Our Mission
Who Reads Neon Pulse
The magazine was built for a specific reader. The door is open to everyone — but we know who we are talking to.
Our Core Reader
Women 30-45
(Broadly 18-55)
- Sex-positive and unapologetic about it
- Reads erotic fiction, follows boudoir or fine art photography, engages actively with sexual culture as part of her identity
- May be a sex worker, adult content creator, escort, or adult entertainer — or adjacent to and supportive of that world
- Interested in sexual health, free sexual expression, self-empowerment, and bodily autonomy
- Lives an alternative lifestyle, or is kink- or polyamory-curious or active
- Wants a publication that doesn't talk down to her, doesn't hedge, and doesn't treat her desires as a guilty secret
Inclusive Audiences
The Wider
community
- Partners of sex workers and adult creators
- Kink educators and practitioners
- Erotic fiction readers and writers
- Photographers working in boudoir and fine art nude
- Men and non-binary readers who share the above values
- Cultural critics and readers interested in desire as a literary subject
The MAgazine
56 pages. Eight sections. Digital PDF and Print-on-Demand. Published quarterly from British Columbia, Canada.
56
pp
Per Issue
4
x
Per Year
$
5.99
Digital Edition
8
+
Sections
01
Pulse
Flash fiction, prose poems, micro-essays
02
Exposure
First pictorial
03
Skin & Ink
Anchor literary fiction — the centrepiece
04
The Conversation
Interview or profile with portrait series
05
Second Exposure
Second pictorial — conceptual, genre-inflected
06
Dark Matter
Reviews, criticism, cultural commentary
07
Frequencies
Kink, fetish, and sex work voices
08
Margins
Reader letters and community voices
Issue Themes
Each issue is anchored by a single theme word — an editorial lens, not a mandate. It shapes the selection and framing of work without dictating it.
Issue 02
TBD
October 2026
Issue 03
TBD
January 2027
Issue 04
TBD
April 2027
Published By
RavensTale Creative
Neon Pulse is a publication of RavensTale Creative, a creative business based in British Columbia, Canada.
The two brands are complementary but distinct. RavensTale Creative is the parent brand and publisher. Neon Pulse is a separate publication with its own visual identity, editorial voice, and audience. A reader of Neon Pulse need not know RavensTale Creative to engage with the magazine.
The RavensTale Creative raven seal — a raven in flight, silhouette, dark and powerful — appears in the Neon Pulse masthead as the publisher mark. It is the only point of visual overlap between the two brands.
Neon Pulse benefits from RavensTale Creative’s existing photography network, model release infrastructure, and editorial relationships. These are the foundations the magazine was built on.
