Charmaine Borg focuses on tensions between sexual arousal and disgust, bringing a glowing clarity to the curious realm of desire. Charmaine doesn’t just study sexuality, she dives into the places where it tangles with aspects of life we’re told to fear: disgust, pain and shame. As an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, her gaze is focussed and unflinching, exploring what happens when arousal rises in the unlikeliest of moments: when it soothes pain, softens disgust, or slips between the sheets of sleep. Her work lights up the darkest corners of human longing, revealing just how messy and magnificent the erotic truly is.