''Adult'' is a magazine of "new erotics" launched in November 2013 by

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Sarah Nicole Prickett Sarah Nicole Prickett is a writer, art critic and editor. She was the founder and editor of ''Adult'', an arts and criticism magazine that launched in 2013. Early life Prickett was born in London, Ontario. She lived in Toronto and moved to N ...

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Berkeley Poole,

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Noah Wunsch, and photo editor Jai Lennard. Lauren Festa later joined as assistant editor, as well as Cheyenne Skeete as editorial intern. Writing in ''

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'', Molly Fischer described the first issue as having a "spirit of exuberant debauchery." In ''

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'', Erin Cunningham said the magazine's "strong literary presence, combined with artistic photography, allows Adult to be so much more than the conventional idea of erotica." Other critics questioned whether the magazine really represented a departure from prior forms; at ''

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'', Diane Mehta wrote of ''Adults first issue that "the most surprising thing about it is just how traditionally masculine its view of female sexuality is." Prickett acknowledged this, telling ''

'', "I'm just going to be really honest with you — if you look at the photos in the first magazine, there's nothing shocking. There's nothing really that you haven't seen before...What's actually in this magazine — the photos that I would call more conservative — are the photos that the guys liked"; going forward, however, Prickett said she and Poole would have more visual creative control, with plans to include more photographs of men as well as greater size diversity among models depicted. Poole and Prickett have subsequently run the magazine. Originally only available in print, ''Adult'' debuted a website in April 2014. Writing for ''

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'', Elisabeth Donnelly said the site's "sensual, intellectual take on sexuality fills a gap in the erotic life online...It feels — forgive me —

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, with a joyful, everybody-in-the-pool take on sexuality.

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