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Sexuality

Media

Monica Lewinsky discusses ‘power imbalances’… on Call Her Daddy

‘We now have language, we now have nomenclature for these kinds of things that allow for more nuanced conversations’

Cockburn

My evening pretending to be a woman

I decided to give autogynephilia a try

Cosmo Landesman

Why women should stop taking the pill

We must heal our polluted erotic ecologies by rewilding sex

Mary Harrington

The words actually worth banning

The strangely babyish and hyperbolic usage of ‘hate’ has disassociated the word from a real but rare emotion

Lionel Shriver

Health

Kinks are no fun without the shame

When did sex become so boring?

Julie Burchill

Science & Tech
February 13, 2023
The New York Times would like you to have more sex, please
Follow the science, prudes
Cockburn
Music
January 30, 2023
Sam Smith is pointlessly provocative
The singer embodies the embarrassing terribleness of LGBTQIA+ culture
Gareth Roberts
Home
September 22, 2022
Why are so many young women buying into polyamory?
Stability is the one thing that throuples and polycules can never provide
Mary Wakefield
Culture
August 24, 2022
Is Harry Styles ashamed of being straight?
Queer, genderqueer, genderfluid, pansexual, demisexual — these are the preferred identities of the new generation
Brendan O’Neill
Culture
August 18, 2022
I regret my promiscuity
Casual sex is fraught with insecurity and miscommunication
Bridget Phetasy
Books
August 1, 2022
Mary Gaitskill and the body electric
Why do we find the dark side of sexuality so terrifying?
Francesca Peacock
Television
July 14, 2022
How Love Island killed sex
The two former functions of sex have essentially evaporated
Zoe Strimpel
Science & Tech
May 26, 2022
Who needs therapy?
Not everyone appreciates being told to look inward
Jesse Singal
Internet
March 31, 2022
The men who want to be castrated
Where does identity end and illness begin?
Ben Sixsmith
Internet
August 26, 2021
Why are young women writing homosexual erotica about men?
Slash is any fanfiction that’s anchored in a homosexual relationship
Katherine Dee

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