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  • Sex-free bliss?

    Depressed people often have to choose between drug-induced happiness and sexual fulfillment.
  • Memoir of the Spanish Civil War

    A moment of passion before she left to become a soldier: An excerpt from "Erogenous Zones: An Anthology of Sex Abroad."
  • The tantric moviegoer

    New media has hurt sex on film, but there are ways to watch movies in an erotic frame of mind. Second of two parts.
  • Movies in heat

    Films used to erotically seduce us; now they tend to sedate instead. First of two parts.
  • "Digital Diaries"

    Natacha Merritt's photographs of herself giving head are a high-tech display of sexual narcissism.
  • Snacking

    If only women would trust men's genuine desire to give oral sex, instead of presuming it's all about intercourse.
  • Gorgeous masculinity

    Muscle magazines make guys, straight and gay, feel good about being men.
  • Going upstream

    It was lovemaking with the landscape.
  • Make talk, not love

    David Allyn talks about his history of the sexual revolution, in which he says talking about sex is sexier than sex.
  • America's greatest sexologist

    A new biography of Alfred C. Kinsey shows he not only studied many forms of sexual behavior but experimented with them as well.
  • Facts of life

    One wonderful, confusing, sweaty summer in Miami, I got my first lessons about sex from my pal, my dad and a Jersey girl.
  • The man who made gays macho

    A new book about Tom of Finland says the artist was the first to show homosexual masculinity.
  • The conversation

    There comes a time in every relationship when I've got to talk about my rape.
  • Stop raping my loved ones

    Dating a victim of sexual assault means learning, awfully, how rape touches everyone.
  • Sling shot

    My sexologist date put me in a leather sling, in the hopes of inducing the elusive female ejaculation.
  • The voices in my head

    They've been narrating my sexual fantasies and calling me names since I was 9, and that's ... OK.
  • The Rembrandt of pulp

    John Willie's bondage illustrations made hurting look so good.
  • Sinnin' and fornicatin'

    Sex is so much sweeter when the preacher is damning you to Hell.
  • I like 'em short

    What short men lack in height, they make up for in might.
  • Future sex

    For proud owners of a $5,000 Realdoll, she's always ready when you're ready. But it takes a special kind of man to get ready for a hunk of silicone with three holes.
  • Brit's-eye view

    The specter of American gender extremism is making ripples across the Atlantic.
  • Strangers in the night

    Europeans have such a flair for flirting that it must be transmitted via breast milk. Why don't Americans get it?
  • Placebo love

    Valentine's Day is as romantic as a trip to the pharmacy.
  • Love is just a moment

    Forget about finding Mr. Right. Finding oneself is more exciting than romance. These celebrated feminists sound more like hosts of "The View" than sisters of the struggle.
  • "Pimpin' is hard work"

    Managers of the flesh compete for pimp of the year at Chicago's annual Players Ball.
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