The best smut engages the body and the mind. Nerve.com co-founder Rufus Griscom talks about controversy, confession and, of course, arousal.
By Tracy Clark-Flory Dec 16, 2008
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A wrenching, sexy marriage drama from the new Ireland. Plus: Potter fans go berserk, and a dose of arty, self-indulgent Euro-erotica.
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 15, 2008
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Did "Sex and the City" change the erotic landscape or turn the female libido into a marketing ploy? Sex writers discuss the iconic show's impact.
By Susannah Breslin
May 30, 2008
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It looks like an ordinary orthopedic back pillow -- but can a mail-order sex prop really set my fantasies free?
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
July 5, 2006
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Two bold collections of essays about the most intimate of acts prove that good sex makes a great memory, but bad sex makes a great story.
By David Amsden
January 1, 2006
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Terry Southern's son tells the wacky tale of his dad's '60s pornographic masterpiece "Candy," whose heroine is both dirtier and more innocent than today's dead-eyed Britney nymphets.
By Charles Taylor
June 10, 2004
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Helmut Newton's "Autobiography" offers a surprisingly touching reminiscence of a childhood in pre-Nazi Germany -- and the life of erotic pleasure that followed.
By Charles Taylor
October 2, 2003
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Most everything, according to a new study that shows women are more aroused by more forms of erotica than men.
By Jason Feifer
August 12, 2003
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Photographer Ellen von Unwerth talks about her new S/M fantasy book, "Revenge," in which the wicked baroness finally gets what's coming to her.
By David Bowman
July 18, 2003
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Pictures of women, taken by women, are different from those taken by men -- or are they?
By Charles Taylor
June 13, 2003
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Erotica writer Zane delivers the damnedest mix of explicit, raucous, profane sexual descriptions alongside bromides on infidelity and homosexuality.
By Charles Taylor
September 4, 2002
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Steve Almond's daring collection of short stories about sex, "My Life in Heavy Metal," brings a fresh and vivid eye to a cliché-ridden subject.
By Michael Alvear
July 24, 2002
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I have gone to bed with men, in part, for the beauty or agility or originality of their hands.
By Michelle Richmond
June 26, 2002
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In the Hindu world the pursuit of sexual pleasure was revered as a sort of religious quest. Imagine a world where getting laid was just as important as going to church on Easter.
By Michael Castleman
May 29, 2002
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Photographer Paul Jasmin captures the stylized, constructed allure of long-ago Hollywood, with an overlay of lush eroticism.
By Glen Helfand
May 24, 2002
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Erotic photographer Tony Ward talks about psychodramas, Clinton's horniness and why he has sex with his models.
By David Bowman
May 17, 2002
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A correspondence concerning erotic 19th century lithographs with Hans-Jürgen Döpp
By David Bowman
April 26, 2002
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Production director Richard Sylbert created the erotic spaces in "Chinatown," "The Graduate" and "Carnal Knowledge."
By David Thomson
April 4, 2002
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The old movie stills were often sexier than the movies they were meant to publicize.
By David Thomson
January 17, 2002
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L.A. photographer Carlos Batts doesn't want to be known for taking dirty pictures, but he's so damn good at it.
By Stephen Lemons
August 30, 2001
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As an unsuspecting adolescent searching my local library, I was lured into the smoky den of literature by Anaïs Nin's erotica.
By Kathy Wilson
August 29, 2001
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Jeff Burton's erotic photos, shot in Los Angeles, are a lush, colorful balance of physical fantasy and mundane reality.
By Glen Helfand
August 9, 2001
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"I was a thirty-something dyke watching this sweet ass slide its way down the hall." An excerpt from a collection of short stories.
By Dawn Dougherty
June 18, 2001
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Young and old, fat and thin -- Jan Saudek's camera makes love to them all.
By Stephen Lemons
June 7, 2001
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A collection of nudes by a photographer interested in "letting the gods in" emphasizes sensuality without being graphic.
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 31, 2001
Sex and the single cerebrum
Teen tarts, sleeping nubiles -- and Harry
Those dirty girls
Vive la Liberator!
The joy of sex writing
"The Candy Men" by Nile Southern
Remembrance of naked chicks past
What do women want?
Black garters and riding crops
Female erotica
Libertine or prude?
Speaking of tongues (and other body parts)
I wanna hold your hand
"Kamasutra" redux
Sensual dreams
Sexual visionary
Fornicating in the rowboat
Inner life
Be still my heart
The accidental pornographer
Sex and the open stacks
"Dreamland"
Zaftig erotica
So many women, so little time
Body Schatz
Glenn Greenwald
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