According to a 2017 study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the average adult currently enjoys sex 54 times a year, a little over once a week. A 2015 study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science showed that couples… Continue Reading
What can we learn from the Kinsey Report 70 years later? Was sex research always political? What do researchers need to ask? In an interview with Deutsche Welle, sex researcher Jakob Pastötter answers these and other questions on the 70th… Continue Reading
Author Erik Davis has posted his essay “Babalon Rising: Jack Parsons’ Witchcraft Prophecy.” for free download. The author’s site explains: “Follow the link below to download a copy of my essay ‘Babalon Rising: Jack Parsons’ Witchcraft Prophecy.’ The essay, based on… Continue Reading
“Katharine Gates has spent decades documenting niche fetishes. She told us what fetishists can teach the #MeToo movement.” Nearly nineteen years ago, after years of study on the subject, Katherine Gates published Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex. Vice describes the first… Continue Reading
Portland Monthly reports that Unmentionable: A Lingerie Exposition will take place Wednesday, February 7 at the McMenamins Mission Theater. “Six years in, two things are certain about the annual Unmentionable lingerie fashion show: 1) We’ll see sexy local lingerie for… Continue Reading
In a 580-person study of predominantly gay men by researchers Justin J. Lehmiller, David Ley, and Dan Savage (yes, the writer of Savage Love) learned that gay men who acted on cuckolding fantasies reported mostly positive experiences. The study was… Continue Reading
Starfire Publishing is announcing the upcoming publication of a new book on Kenneth and Steffi Grant this Spring. It’s now available for pre-order. The publisher’s site says: Servants of the Star & the Snake is a collection of eighteen essays by… Continue Reading
“Where did you first learn about sex?” asks Jennifer Weiner in the New York Times. In her opinion piece, “We Need Bodice-Ripper Sex Ed,” she suggests that many of the problems being brought to light by the #MeToo movement could… Continue Reading
..or, more accurately, women’s brain activity is more pronounced than that of men during sexual arousal. A study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine by Mayte Parada, Marina Gérard, Kevin Larcher, Alain Dagher, and Yitzchak M. Binik showed that women’s… Continue Reading
“The Beast 666 ordains by His authority that every man, and every woman, and every intermediately-sexed individual, shall be absolutely free to interpret and communicate Self by means of any sexual practices soever, whether direct or indirect, rational or symbolic,… Continue Reading