Hi! I’m Camille Sojit Pejcha, a writer, sextuple Scorpio, and, according to Rayne Fisher-Quann, “the closest thing we have to a modern-day Carrie Bradshaw.”
Pleasure-Seeking is a newsletter and podcast dedicated to exploring how desire shapes our lives. Since launching independently in October 2024, it has built a global audience of over 30,000 monthly readers and been featured in The New York Times.
What should I expect?
Fun, flirty, fearless writing—free from the tyranny of SEO and the censorship of social media. Essays, cultural criticism, reported features, scene reports, personal reflections, interviews, and sex/relationship advice. A place to interrogate what we want and why we want it, using pop culture as an entry point to bigger conversations about power, identity, and desire.
Who reads Pleasure-Seeking?
Highly sophisticated perverts. People who want something fun to talk about at dinner parties. Intellectuals who refuse to be prudes. People who aren’t afraid to let their freak flag fly—and people who are afraid, but want to live vicariously through me.
Wait, who are you again?
I’m a writer covering sex and culture for publications like The New York Times, Slate, and W Magazine. Previously, I was Features Director at Document Journal, where Pleasure-Seeking began as a column. There, I took readers along with me on my (often ill-advised) exploits, from getting tied by Shibari experts to infiltrating a $12,000 sex party, interviewing my ex-boyfriend’s ex-girlfriends, and documenting the queer nightlife scene still thriving at New York’s Chelsea Hotel.
I’ve interviewed hundreds of artists, thinkers, and makers—from the niche (feminist porn directors, erotic jewelry designers, and cyborgs) to the mainstream (your favorite novelists, musicians, and movie stars like Charli XCX, Ottessa Moshfegh and Viggo Mortensen.)
After five years on staff at Document, I relaunched Pleasure-Seeking as an independent newsletter and podcast. On Substack, it’s a direct dialogue between us—Q&A-style sex advice, subscriber chats, and the kind of writing I can’t publish anywhere else.
Why should I subscribe?
Because you like smart, unfiltered writing about sex, power, and culture—and because platforms like this don’t survive without reader support.
Paid subscribers get access to Pleasure-Seeking events, exclusive stories, and photo diaries from my wildest nights out—the stuff too juicy to share with the broader internet. If you want more of Pleasure-Seeking, subscribing for $6/month or $60/year is the single best way to support it.
The more subscribers I get here, the more time I can dedicate to exploring New York’s sexual underground—which means that by pledging $6/month, you are literally keeping the beating heart of culture alive. Consider opting for a paid or founding subscription and sharing Pleasure-Seeking with your friends, lovers, and enemies.
Come hang!
Join the Pleasure-Seeking chat, submit your sex and relationship questions for the advice column anonymously here, or email me at pleasureseeking@substack.com. You can also follow me on Instagram, Threads, or X.
I’m glad you’re here. And I hope that in untangling my desires, I’ll help you make sense of your own.
xoxo
Camille
