What We Look For

Clean Sheets publishes sex-positive, upbeat, and very contemporary articles on all aspects of sexuality. Often these fall into the following categories:

1. How-tos
2. Humorous or serious personal essays
3. Focused overviews of a specific aspect, theme, or topic of sexual activity
4. Timely and newsworthy coverage of sex-oriented events
5. Revealing, in-depth, and provocative interviews with prominent individuals in the sexual community (activists, erotica authors, etc.)

What we do not want: Rambling, unfocused rants, college term papers, personal or group-based propaganda, Penthouse letters-type confessions.

Criteria

1. Length -1500-2000 words.
2. E-mail submissions only. Please include your submission in the body of the email. No attachments. We will automatically delete any email with attachments as a prevention against viruses.
3. Format and style: We strongly recommend you read the current issue of CS and look through the archive to familiarize yourself with what we have accepted before. It is also a good idea to query us with article ideas and a sample of your writing.
4. While we do sometimes use reprints, our first choice is for original works.
5. Editing -- We prefer not to have to edit heavily. Check your work for typos, grammar, and punctuation before you send it... If we have to edit for content, we will send the revised copy back to you or suggest revisions.

Payment

Clean Sheets currently does not offer payment for non-fiction. We will credit you with a byline, a copyright notice and bio. We usually will include a link to your web site where appropriate, although we reserve the right to review first for content. We will enter your published work into our archive, but all other rights remain with you.