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Male cheerleaders? Who cares

Sex

Kicking and Screaming

Male cheerleaders? Who cares

Focus on your fantasy team instead

Britt McHenry

Sabrina Carpenter mainstreams cutesy violence towards women

The singer changed her album cover that suggested ‘I like being roughed up in the bedroom’

Zoe Strimpel

The porn reckoning is here

Pornography is undergoing a serious reevaluation

Bethany Mandel

Is the ‘OneTaste’ CEO a sex cult leader – or a high priestess of female pleasure?

Followers say they were lured with promises of healing past trauma through orgasmic meditation

Emily Smith

Dating

Why men aren’t asking questions

We think we crave a man who asks the most insightful probing questions, who enjoys plumbing the depths of our psyches. But do we?

Mary Wakefield

Culture
April 2, 2025
Why is no one talking about femcels?
The womanosphere appears to turn women against men
Ella Dorn
Book Review
March 20, 2025
Gabriel Weston explores the wonder of the human body
Alive is a guide to our organs: their anatomy, and how and why they function
Leyla Sanai
Book Review
March 3, 2025
How can a Woody Allen biography be so dull?
Mia Farrow doesn’t even appear until page 313 of Patrick McGilligan’s latest film biography
Lynn Barber
Book Review
February 28, 2025
The sexual escapades of Edmund White
The octogenarian writer seems unable to resist the burlesque, describing the most lurid encounters at an apparently droll remove
James Cahill
Internet
January 19, 2025
Why Bonnie Blue and Andrew Tate horrify us
Some of us still subscribe to the old idea that men should treat women with respect
Gareth Roberts
Cockburn’s Diary
December 13, 2024
What’s preventing a repeat of the Senate twink scandal?
Plus: The twisting fates of Cox and Weiner
Cockburn
Internet
December 11, 2024
The men who exploited Lily Phillips should be ashamed
When women like Lily talk about being driven by a sexual desire, this is all part of the fantasy constructed for men
Julie Bindel
Campaign 2024
November 4, 2024
Meet the MAGA porn stars
When an adult performer looks in the mirror, they look way more like a Trump than an MSNBC wine mom
Cherie DeVille
Television
October 31, 2024
Is Rivals the most outrageous show on television?
Come for the outrageousness and scandal, stay for the surprisingly sweet heart at its center
Alexander Larman
Film
October 18, 2024
Where has the erotic film gone?
Depictions of sex in cinema have collapsed
Gareth Roberts

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