Dear Thad: Let me begin by explaining that I don’t get off on pornography. Watching other people have sex doesn't make me horny; at most it makes me curious. Rather, I am writing you concerning the very vexing question of why I get off watching a representation of me getting off. My partner was ...

A new study by the National Sleep Foundation suggests that twenty five percent of married or cohabitating Americans are too sleep-deprived to have sex. Now, this truly sucks, for reasons I'll get to below--but what's nearly as awful is the spin put on this and similar data by mainstream bourgeois news ...

Perhaps we should be happy that twenty million readers worldwide have embraced their inner spanker and/or spankee. Perhaps we should accept that the vessel of truth is, in this case, highly imperfect. Written as a spin-off of Twilight fan fiction, entirely in present tense, with awkward inner monologues and lacking ...

Here's what I want: A radical new notion of love, and an accompanying radical new notion of loss. Of loss, healing, redemption, and forgiveness. Radical forgiveness is asymmetrical, not reciprocal. Radical forgiveness transcends the question of whether you have been adequately forgiven by the other person. Love is patient, love is ...

There will be some nomenclature, some rhetorical subdivision, some dreaded categorization and definition in what follows. Unless you've never had good sex, you’ll agree that sometimes, drawing lines is good. Lines like "good sex" and "bad sex." I had just finished giving the Duchess of Hardcore Activists the drilling she’d asked ...

Tucked between the New Hampshire primary and Ground Hog Day, and directly competing against an NFL playoff game, is Saturday's annual Miss America pageant. Although the headquarters is still near Atlantic City, where it originated in 1921, the pageant—don’t call it a beauty contest—has been a part of the Las Vegas ...

“O.K., class, we have a few minutes at the end of today’s lecture about how the godless Communists created evolution to try to destroy the decent loyal patriotic capitalist society of America. Any questions? Yes, Billy Bob.” “Mr. Jim Bob, I heard about this thing called a person. What is that?” “Good ...

by Walter M. Brasch Parents demanded it be banned. School superintendents placed it in restricted sections of their libraries. It is the most challenged book four of the past five years, according to the American Library Association (ALA). “It” is a 32-page illustrated children’s book, And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin ...

I'm declaring a pox on porn for the good of sex. Sound oxymoronic? Hear me out. I'm not anti-porn in the general sense. I mean, who doesn't like to watch fucking? We're all voyeurs. But porn in its current incarnation is ruining sex. Ruining. Sex. Did you know there is an actual ...

It was nice running across these three erotic poems from ancient Egypt. Some of them are even a little kinky. It goes without saying that people have always longed for voluptuous, fertile beauty, celebrated the joys of intimacy, and enjoyed a little (or a lot) of the joyously weird. From a 3,000 year-old papyrus: She is ...