A community of 3D graphics hobbyists are making and selling avatars of real people in order to fulfill their sexual fantasies, and there's little anyone can do to stop them.
What is it like to feel love and share physical intimacy yet feel no sexual attraction to the person you are with?
And a look into the algorithm that determines who actually shows up in your app.
The "Following" activity tab and likes may be gone, but the stalkers aren't.
Online dating might not help you find the one. But the data from dating apps offers some tantalizing insights.
Virginity is a social construct. Let's keep biology out of it.
There's no real evidence that abortion pill "reversal" works, but facilities around the country are offering it.
A femme fatale harbors a secret pain or experienced a traumatic childhood loss. As a result, she has garnered a reputation for danger.
Women who suffer from vulvodynia often feel isolated from their partners. But a better medical understanding is helping.
An interview with Andrea Long Chu on her new book "Females" and her core question: what if gender is not a matter of "who one is, but of what one wants?"
After Rep. Katie Hill resigned amidst a revenge porn scandal, Nancy Pelosi implied it was partially her fault.
While millions of women regularly use some form of hormonal birth control, there are staggeringly few conclusive studies on its side effects.
When something so painfully earnest arrived on the shores of a place drenched in irony, snark, and memes, the ridicule of LoveSync was inevitable.
A Q&A with a clinical psychologist who specializes in getting couples to talk about openly about sex.
Studies suggest women are using marijuana as a libido enhancer. Does it work?
What could possibly go wrong?
Getting to the bottom (and top) of cannabis in the bedroom.
The National Organization for Women opposes decriminalization of sex work. Doing so has led it to echo rhetoric from anti-choice groups and the religious right.
Mayor Femke Halsema has proposed to cover brothel windows and move sex workers out of the area. What does this mean for the city?
Reproduction used to be a formula: two parents, one egg, one sperm, one embryo, one baby. But on Friday, a study published in Cell complicated — or simplified — this equation.
Sex workers and Instagram tried to make peace over takedowns in a meeting this summer. Then porn star Jessica Jaymes' account was incorrectly removed — after she died.
Robert Eggers ("The Witch") opens up to Marlow Stern about his brilliant new film "The Lighthouse," and that batshit-insane mermaid sequence. [Warning: Spoilers]
For decades, sex products were packaged in garish colors and shapes, intimidating many shoppers from driving to a dingy storefront and purchasing them. But startups are betting that by making vibrators and lube with pared-back design and soft colors, consumers will be more likely to actually use them — and maybe even display them proudly in their bedrooms.
This is a big question, and as such it's a question that feminist, leftist and trans YouTuber Contrapoints gives a lot of room to explore in this long, thorough, thoughtful and compassionate video.
Henry the sex robot is the "mind" of a "woman" trapped in the "body" of a "man."
The laws meant to protect minors from sexual abuse are a double-edged sword.
After bonding in an extracurricular class about esoteric medical ethics, one insecure comedian tried to make moves on a fellow nerd. It sounds hilariously awkward and we pity everyone involved.
When pornography becomes a "frictionless" technology, our bodies' task is to seamlessly and endlessly circulate.
My mom handed me the book without instructions. She was a children's librarian, and was always handing me books. This one was different only in that I had seen her with it before. This book had a purple cover with a man snaking his way around a woman.
It's been "10 years away" for the past 50 years. Are we just getting conned?
This is very clearly a parody. But to be quite honest we think this is a pretty good idea for self conscious teens and tweens who need a safe space to learn to swap spit.
Whether it's a friends with benefits situation or a Tinder date gone-right, here's how to ensure everyone wakes up happy the next morning.
Like a mobile game, the dating app offers paid features that increase the odds of success. Lots of people are buying.
Every month, he's still sure to send all 535 members of Congress the latest issue of Hustler.
Reclined on my bed, I resembled, both in posture and atmosphere, the iconic life drawing scene in "Titanic."
Hollywood has grown wary of intimacy. Can HBO's Alicia Rodis save the sex scene?
There is a conundrum at the heart of understanding how judgements work in relationships. On the one hand, we need to accurately assess whether someone is right for us because it is such an important decision. On the other, evidence suggests that we're very bad at evaluating the qualities of the people closest to us.
Don't ask Sony or Nintendo because adult games are few and far between on their digital storefronts. But some of the most important moments in gaming history can be traced back to porn.
When Amy Sutton first started dating her now-boyfriend, they spent hours on end sending voice notes back and forth. Not texts, voice notes.
Designing your ideal physical mate is a dangerous and potentially mean game to play when you don't know what the other person looks. And while this is an objectively cool date regardless of who you are with, we couldn't imagine two people more different than each other.
Fun fact: The Golden Gate Bridge is the best spot in the entire world to see porpoises doing the nasty.
As a practice patient for doctor's assistants, I humiliate myself for the chance to see you again.
Pornhub is hosting videos that have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. The women in them say they thought the videos would never reach the internet, and that being doxed has ruined their lives.
