Sluts, Freaks, and Sinners: An Interview With Writers R.O. Kwon and Amanda Montell

Amanda Montell
11 min readJul 6, 2021

The co-editor of Kink and the author of Cultish discuss what “cults” and kink have in common (and more).

As someone who exclusively writes books on topics that tend to make people squirm — sex, feminism, religion, and cults — sometimes I wonder why I can’t be one of those nice wholesome authors who write nice wholesome…

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Amanda Montell

Los Angeles writer / Author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism & Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language https://tinyurl.com/34886sec