Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.

The immersive mise en scène of a 2010 Hollister flagship store, redolent of California beach towns that don’t exist, “lazy, hygienic sexuality,” and weed.

Strangers want their past relationships witnessed, and other strangers come to Zagreb to witness them.

Two strangers travel toward various destinations.

Men have become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation they may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.

Family dynamics both real and imagined.

Gang-bang buffet tables, deeply earnest 'Letters to the Editor,' ghost-writing Kierkegaard references into model bios in Barely Legal, and how a half-decade of reviewing porn eroded the thin line between the author's alter egos and self.

A profile of Candy Barr—porn star pioneer, burlesque legend, Texas folk hero.

A search for meaning through academics, cultural studies, and terrorism.

Inside the thriving subculture of Japanese men who eschew sex and romance with real live people in favor of real relationships with 2-D characters printed on body pillows.

Lessons for dating and dying.

The rise of the king of American swingers.

A band's tour problems range from bedbugs to internal strife.

On the adultery website AshleyMadison.com.

A convergence of sex, fears, and family drama.

The pecking order of All-Star Weekend sex-with-basketball-player-or-rapper hopefuls.

Sex, potential violence, and human awkardness convene on an isolated shore.

"A slight breeze brings slight relief from the heat and a taste of the saltwater lapping against the hard sand. He’s been here many times. Though he has no desire to kill a bird, he loves this place, this lonely beach at the edge of this lonely lake too shallow for boats and too lifeless to attract fishermen. He loves the sand bugs and the sharp edges of the sand grass. Especially he loves the deep shade beneath the willow trees, and the sound of the cicadas’ music in the sun."

Sex and communication in experimental fragments.

"We are in your white bed full of light drinking white wine and it is dark. I balance the base of the glass on the side of my naked hip and look at the marble spa tub in the bathroom. There is a flushed gleam bouncing off the mirror, fainting exhaling ebbing back into the room and I ghost the smoke a reprise a remorse of sighing and feeling nothing but beam."

An adventure on the Beringia, a dog sled race stretching 685 miles over Russia’s frozen tundra.

On Silvio Berlusconi’s hedonism.

Berlusconi is Italy’s waning Hugh Hefner, alternately reviled and admired for his loyalty to his own appetites—except that he’s supposed to be running the country.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

Gretchen Molannen was perpetually aroused. She couldn’t work or sleep.

On December 1, the day after this story was published, she killed herself.

A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?

The rise of One Direction fanfiction that imagines the band members in relationships – with each other.

An essay on Jimmy Savile, British television and child sexual abuse.