A few days ago, the Guardian ran a story about biographer Joanna Moorhead who’s book, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington , has recently been published. Carrington, who died in 2011, was a notable member of the Surrealist movement, admired by her… Continue Reading
“In her upcoming book, titled 23, the subjects, coated in her signature dream-like lighting, explore the spectrum of gender and sexuality. Featuring 23 photographs of nude cisgender and transgender men and women, the book also includes essays about contemporary sexuality… Continue Reading
Can sex with a virgin cure sexually transmitted infections? Are “blue balls” a real thing? Will douching prevent pregnancy? Yetundi Arebi provides answers to these questions and more. While this article could use a proofreader for spelling, it does have good… Continue Reading
“The BBC may choose to refer to Versailles as a ‘period drama,’” says Norman Wells from the Family Education Trust, “but a programme featuring such sexually explicit scenes is quite simply pornography dressed up under another name.” Chris McGovern, of… Continue Reading
“I’m Hugh Hefner. You might think you know all about me — the magazine, the mansions, the parties, the women — but you don’t know the half of it,” a narrator begins in the first trailer for Amazon’s American Playboy:… Continue Reading
In all relationships, the honeymoon ends eventually. Sex tapers off. We like to believe that older couples replace sexual intimacy with comfort and emotional intimacy, but in reality sex is a basic human need. Brian VanHooker asks: What if, while… Continue Reading
The Members and Officers of Scarlet Woman Lodge have announced the opening of registration for the the seventh annual Scarlet Symposium, to be held at SWL during the first weekend of June. The Book of the Law charges us to… Continue Reading
This January, researchers at Imperial College London announced that the hormone kisspeptin can enhance activity in brain regions associated with sexual arousal and romantic love. In placebo-controlled trials, 29 healthy young men were injected with kisspeptin and their brains scanned using… Continue Reading
Are men always risk takers, while women play it safe? Is it true that women seek long-term relationships, while men want no-strings ready sex? Do these generalizations even make sense, evolutionarily? In Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society,… Continue Reading
The Astroglide website tells us: “Few things are as shrouded in mystery as lesbian sex. In our culture, so much of the information and imagery that we encounter regarding sex is focused around male desire which can make it hard… Continue Reading