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October 10, 2016
Ted Gup
On the Subject of Lust, Donald Trump Is No Jimmy Carter
"I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust," Carter humbly admitted in 1976. Trump's recent remarks show no such humanity.
October 4, 2016
MagazineTony Tulathimutte
Utopian Kink
Reports from the frontiers of sexual experimentation.
July 11, 2016
James Romm
The Erotic Bard of Ancient Rome
The life of Roman poet Catullus was stranger than fiction, but a new biography speculates far more than any history should.
April 19, 2016
Chelsea G. Summers
Fifty Shades of Shakespeare
In a new memoir, an obsession with the Bard and spanking transforms what it means to live a sensual life.
March 3, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Mitt Romney and Donald Trump both need to lay off the sexual innuendo.
February 1, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Let’s dissect what Match says it knows about the sexual habits of Donald Trump’s voters.
January 20, 2016
Noah Berlatsky
Child Sex Workers’ Biggest Threat: The Police
November 13, 2015
MagazineRafia Zakaria
Sex and the Muslim Feminist
On refusing to equate sexual pleasure with freedom.
October 21, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Is Sex Serious? College Women Won’t Be Satisfied Until They Decide.
September 8, 2015
Laura Miller
Lust for Learning
Is erotic longing between professors and students unavoidable?
August 13, 2015
Moira Weigel
Dating Will Never Die
If the Industrial Revolution didn’t kill it, how could Tinder?
July 16, 2015
Esther Breger
Amy Schumer's Old-Fashioned Family Values
'Trainwreck' is a classic rom-com, not a subversive statement
June 23, 2015
Jordan Michael Smith
Does Hillary Really Believe in the Hillary Doctrine?
June 8, 2015
Molly Smith
The Problem With the "Swedish Model" for Sex Work Laws
May 21, 2015
Rebecca Traister
Marriage Is Evolving. The 'Primates of Park Avenue’ Aren’t.
May 15, 2015
Jeet Heer
Jonathan Franzen's “Bad” Sex Writing Isn't His Fault
April 6, 2015
Sarah Ditum
I Used to Think Being Anti-Porn Meant Being Pro-Censorship. I Was Wrong.
April 2, 2015
Alana Massey
A&E Completely Misunderstands the Reality of Sex Workers
March 31, 2015
Sarah Kollmorgen
Millennials Are Having Less Sex, But Don't Blame It on Twitter or Tinder
March 27, 2015
Sam Eifling
Sex Before the Internet Was Scary Enough to Be a Horror Film

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