A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.

“When a man steps onto the road, his journey begins. When a woman steps onto that same road, hers ends.”

Before I learned about beauty, I delighted in my body. I sensed a deep well at my center, a kind of umbilical cord that linked me to a roiling infinity of knowledge and pathos that underlay the trivia of our daily lives.

On illness, lockdown, marriage, and intimacy.

She was once the “world’s most exclusive madam.”

In staying, I was not only denying myself the chance at true happiness, but I was keeping him from having it, too. It was that realization—that I was preventing my husband from having the life he deserved—that ultimately outweighed the fears I had about leaving.

How the the rush to direct-selling platforms like OnlyFans could change the adult industry forever.

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.

Sex in the Olympic Village.

The origins of a misplaced panic.

An insider watches Kink.com prepare to leave the hundred-year-old armory it occupies in San Francisco.

Kross cuts through the moans and shouts from off-camera: “Someone go wide!” She’s telling the cameramen to make sure they are adequately capturing the reverse gang bang of Ferrara—the love of her life.

I was asked about labor protections for adult-film performers. I said: You have to recognize how complicated this is. The things that sex workers do to stay safe are almost always the things civilians want to pass laws to stop. Everything looks different depending on the distance from which you’re looking.

They were an organized group of ex-strippers, plus a few role players recruited from Craigslist. They fished for marks in strip clubs, Wall Street cocktail bars, and even TGI Fridays, and then lured them to strip clubs. The marks woke up with little memory of the night before and their credit cards maxed out.

It was a place where you could, whatever you needed could to look like, for so many folks who’d been told they could not.

“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

On sex education and why people are still so uncomfortable talking about it.

The death of a submissive man-pup and the scrotal silicone injection that killed him.

Teo Brank found a lucrative side hustle arranging escorts for sex parties. But when his business soured, he turned to extortion.

The untold story of how Lisa Howard’s intimate diplomacy with Cuba’s revolutionary leader changed the course of the Cold War.

When Ben Roethlisberger, Charles Barkley, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and the future President of the United States crossed paths at a celebrity golf tournament.

American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know.

The not-so-secret sex parties of Silicon Valley.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.