Sex Gallery

  • Corsets, threesomes and fleshy French thighs

    A Kinsey Institute exhibition shows that female desires burn just as brightly as men's.
    By David Bowman January 23, 2004

  • The man who loved women

    Photography collector and editor Peter Fetterman talks about the naked woman as landscape -- and why women look hotter reading Proust.
    By David Bowman December 24, 2003

  • Soft shoulder

    "Curve" offers a curiously ambivalent look at female nudes -- from cheesecake feminist critique to women-as-sushi.
    By Glen Helfand December 5, 2003

  • The seductress

    The author of a new book says if women want to seduce powerful men, their best weapon is brains, not boobs.
    By David Bowman October 31, 2003

  • Erotic by nature

    David Steinberg talks about the sexually frank photographs he's collected and how he thinks they can change the culture.
    By Michael Castleman October 3, 2003

  • A naked woman is never ironic

    Historian Jessica Glasscock chats about the first striptease, pasties, pubic landing strips, and the nude-friendly hippies who raised her.
    By David Bowman September 26, 2003

  • A girl in every port

    A search for cultural roots takes photographer Reagan Louie into Asia's sex industry.
    By Glen Helfand September 12, 2003

  • Vamps and villains

    Pulp art does not reach the "nice" areas of our brain. It is spicy and violent and aims for the gut, the groin and our deepest fantasies.
    By Charles Taylor August 15, 2003

  • Black garters and riding crops

    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

  • Female erotica

    Pictures of women, taken by women, are different from those taken by men -- or are they?
    By Charles Taylor June 13, 2003

  • When nudists swung

    Reliving the glory days of Jaybird, the mid-'60s magazine for randy nature lovers.
    By David Bowman April 11, 2003

  • Natural girls

    For his latest book project, photographer Dave Naz went to Ross and bought lots of women's cotton underpants.
    By Karen Croft March 28, 2003

  • Classic couples

    Did Liz and Dick love each other more photogenically than Ben and J.Lo? A new book makes it seem so.
    By Karen Croft February 21, 2003

  • Three days in the Valley

    Photographer Larry Sultan finds poignancy before and after the action on porn sets.
    By Glen Helfand February 7, 2003

  • Funny flesh

    A conversation with legendary pop artist Mel Ramos, who never saw a big-breasted woman he didn't want to paint sitting on a howling hippo.
    By Karen Croft December 6, 2002

  • Passionate pairs

    Stefan May takes black-and-white photographs of couples in the throes of passion -- or at least pretending to be.
    By Karen Croft November 1, 2002

  • Randy iconoclast

    Bruce LaBruce hops between photographing his swarthy Muslim lover and sultry Asia Argento -- and they both love him.
    By Glen Helfand October 18, 2002

  • Pomegranate porn

    Photographer Flor Garduño's work is a fecund mix of eroticism, magical realism -- and sexy fruit.
    By Douglas Cruickshank October 4, 2002

  • Smile, you're on carnal camera

    After Italian architect Carlo Mollino died, his executors found more than 2,000 Polaroid photographs of women in his villa -- most of them nude.
    By Charles Taylor September 27, 2002

  • Before women had pubic hair

    Scholar Peter Gay talks about "Exposed: The Victorian Nude" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
    By David Bowman September 13, 2002

  • Mr. Spock's nudes

    Leonard Nimoy talks about religion, Vulcans, sexuality, getting up at 5 a.m. and his love of photographing naked women.
    By David Bowman September 6, 2002

  • The invention of the nude in America

    Thomas Eakins caused quite a stir by encouraging his male and female painting students to get naked for each other.
    By David Bowman August 30, 2002

  • Searching for Marcello

    Photographer Daniela Federici talks about what is sexy (food, pregnancy and Marcello Mastroianni).
    By David Bowman August 23, 2002

  • Paul Gauguin's erotic life

    He was cruel to his wife, drove van Gogh mad and delighted in impregnating women. The author of a Gauguin biography talks about why she loves his art anyway.
    By David Bowman August 2, 2002

  • A fine fetish

    Steve Diet Goedde's photographs are what Ansel Adams might have made if he were into S&M.
    By Charles Taylor July 26, 2002
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