31 Dec 2014

• Play-Doh's latest toy looks like a penis?
  No one, not one single person at Hasbro, stopped for one minute to really take a look at this Play-Doh toy and realized that it looks exactly like a penis?

• Celebrity sex tape wish list
  Vivid Entertainment, distributors of the Kim Kardashian sex tape and countless other classics, has released its annual "Ten Hottest Couples Wish List."

• How this college student became a successful porn star overnight
  Last year she was taking college courses and partying with her sorority sisters. This year she's been nominated for nine AVN awards

• What it means to identify as genderqueer
  As the transgender community continues to fight its way into mainstream conversations, we recognize others who also fit outside the male-female binary, including those that identify as genderqueer.

  30 Dec 2014

• Our top six weirdest sex stories of the year are...
  From the woman who ended up with two broken legs after a threesome, to, the man who inserted a lungfish into his rectum

• Can a penis really get stuck inside a vagina during sex?
  In medieval times, people believed that a man's penis could literally get "sucked into a woman's vagina" during sex in the missionary position.

• The complications of having sex when you've got crap eyesight
  For one thing, you're having sex with a skin-coloured blob. They could be anyone.

• 15 sex resolutions you should keep in 2015
  From stopping faking your orgasms, to, not giving a shit whether you shaved or not

  29 Dec 2014

• Profit and loss in the Wall Street sex trade
  They rest, and then they call me," said Zoe, a $600-an-hour independent escort in her mid 30s who's been in and out of the business since her late teens

• Menstruation. Does it weird you out?
  I've had this picture idea for a while but hadn't found the courage to do it, and although I think it turned out to be one of my best pictures I also think it may well be one of my most controversial.

• Naked free runner captured in breathtaking photographs
  World champion free runner Tim Shieff was captured in the buff in a number of London locations

• 7 unusual tips for mind-blowing sex
  Mind-blowing sex is 10% technical skill, and 90% connection, presence, and emotionality. It's more about reading your partner, moment to moment, than it is about perfecting a specific hand technique

  28 Dec 2014

• When an orgasm is just not worth it
  If you're having sex with someone and you don't get off, how often after the sex does the person immediately attempt to remedy that? Usually? Sometimes? Never?

• Porn stars on the year in porn
  This year was less about wild orgies and piles of cocaine, and more about the hard-working, business-minded adult star.

• How sex scientists define asexuality
  Asexuality exists on a spectrum that ranges from asexual to sexual, including people who are graysexual (only rarely experiencing sexual attraction) or demisexual (only experiencing sexual attraction after an emotional connection).

• Japan's "Emperor of Porn" subject of new documentary
  66-year-old actor and director, Toru Muranishi, has been arrested multiple times, run up massive debts and made roughly 3,000 AV films. Oh, and he's had sex with about 7,000 actresse

  27 Dec 2014

• Japan cool with penis-shaped things but not a vagina kayak
  Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, who makes stuff shaped like vaginas, was officially charged on Wednesday with distributing "obscene" data.

• How to overcome sexual hang-ups
  By talking to clients over the years, I've realised just how common it is that so many people have sexual hang-ups. Often they are insecurities, inhibitions, shame or situations that prevent them from having sex.

• What your grandma can teach you about sex
  Turns out, some of the best role models for sex are your grandparents

• The relationship between sex and pizza
  If you want to turn on a man, you may want to put your face in a pumpkin pie or rub some pizza grease behind your ears

  26 Dec 2014

• 10 weirdest, most fascinating sex stories of 2014
  Sex tips from a man with no penis? Open relationships reduce jealousy? Here are some of AlterNet's most interesting sex stories of 2014.

• XXX-mas 'tis the season for couples to have more sex
  Many parents want their children to be born in September, so they will be their oldest in their school year, which supposedly gives them an advantage

• 10 animals that trade sex for favors
  Humans didn't invent the idea of combining sex and commerce. Plenty of animals are willing to mate, but only if the price is right.

• How I became a swinger
  My spouse and I are in a committed relationship. We also enjoy sex with other people. And no, there's no drama.

  25 Dec 2014

• Councilmen deemed nude pregnant portrait 'Pornography'
  Last week, the president of Jacksonville's city council, dubbed a picture of a pregnant woman, "pornography," requesting the mayor, defund a $230,000 grant given to the museum.

• How I became a swinger
  The only balls most of us come across in the gym are of the Swiss exercise variety - unless your trainer is Colin Dobson.

• A beginner's guide to rimming
  The ability to lick your boyfriend's bumhole with skill can be an amazing tool in your sexual arse-nal. Sorry.

• The rowers who are going full frontal
  The AF rowers who make a nude valendar rvery year, have made a 66-minute, full-frontal-featuring documentary about the making of the annual calendar

  24 Dec 2014

• 8 times friends with benefits actually works
  Friends with benefits almost always ends up with someone getting feelings, which results in ruining the friendship all together.

• Progressive sexuality: not about having sex at parties
  Polly Superstar runs high-end sex parties across the globe and recently wrote a book about her life story and her adventures.

• A short history of female ejaculation
  Squirting may seem like nothing more than a muscularly impressive porn trope, but it is, in fact, at the apex of a centuries-old shit storm around female sexuality.

• What do bonobo apes know about sex, that you don't?
  Sex educator Dr. Susan Block offers an alternative view of human sexuality, inspired by a role model who isn't even human: our closest genetic cousin, the bonobo.

• Why I cheated on my husband
  A study by the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, attempted to answer that question and found that the reasons behind infidelity differ greatly between the sexes

  23 Dec 2014

• Sex marks the spot
  Previously unseen images have laid bare the lives of sex workers in the city in a University of Birmingham research project.

• Watch Porn at work, without getting fired
  How to circumvent all those pesty web-surfing restrictions on your office computer

• Statue has a massive penis bulge
  A statue honouring the soccer playing, Cristiano Ronaldo, has either a really weird oversight or a great joke: the statue has a massive penis bulge. [photo]

• Variety is the spice of humble moth's sex life
  A small brown moth, the gold swift moth (Phymatopus hecta), has one of the most complex sex lives in the insect world: its mating patterns and sexual positions are worthy of an insect Karma Sutra.

• Representation in porn, or a lack thereof
  I want to see porn with women, but who aren't skinny, young, white, conventional-looking, or going "ooohnnnn ooohhhhhnnn ohhhhhnnn" like seals throughout the movie

  22 Dec 2014

• Is porn contributing to the decline in marriages
  Research published in the Institute for the Study of Labor in Germany states that the rise of free porn on the internet is correlated with the decline in the amount of young adult men who are married [more]

• I've found my wife's secret sex toy
  Advice is given to man who thinks his wife has replaced him with a vibrator

• I'm a science nerd who gamed dating
  When I met the love of my life, I didn't choose him for romantic reasons at first. I chose him because the science said to

• Why is rape a crime?
  "Rape by deception" prompts us to consider: Why is rape a crime? Or, to put it another way, what exactly are we criminalizing when we criminalize rape?

• I'm Christian and chaste but masturbate in my dreams
  I'm finding weird objects around my house that are straight and long, such as perfume bottles, bathroom items, and anything that resembles that part.

  21 Dec 2014

• Is your favourite porn wow illegal?
  New regulations mean female ejaculation, caning, and being weed on are now all illegal in online porn in the UK. So what does that mean for your favourite porn films?

• America likes butts more than breasts
  The vast majority of states are full of ass men and women, while the Northwest and the tip of Northeast are more into breasts.

• Sex education in the afternoon delights
  Prophylactics set the scene for the holiday-themed Sex at Lunch session, which a trio mounts approximately every two weeks for students in Grades 11 and 12 and sometimes Grade 10

• The joy of sex
  A survey of Americans has found that most have sex just a few times each year

  20 Dec 2014

• The hottest sex scenes of 2014
  It's been a great year for super-hot weirdo sex in TV and movies, from threesomes to clones, and everything in-between

• Why do men become gynaecologists?
  As the 20th annual conference on Challenges in Gynaecology begins, what's the appeal for male doctors?

• Will regulated legal prostitution be safer prostitution?
  Sex work, namely prostitution, is an active field in every country. Legal brothels can help make prostitution safer for everyone. Government licensure of sex work is a step in the right direction.

• Inside nudist culture in Washington
  Staff photographer Jordan Stead spent 2014's summer and fall months documenting the often-misunderstood culture behind nudism at Issaquah's Fraternity Snoqualmie family nudist park

• Sleeping naked slashes risk of diabetes
  A new study suggests that if you sleep in the nude could help slash your risk of diabetes, ward off infections, trim your waistline and make you feel more refreshed in the morning

  19 Dec 2014

• Scissr dating app: the new Tinder for lesbians?
  It's the latest dating app for women seeking women, but what's the app, named after a lesbian sex position, all about?

• Is sexology just too human to study?
  Can we hope to study something as human as sex in any scientific way? A new exhibition and two books leave plenty of room for doubt

• Why female ejaculation is one of the last porn taboos
  A UK ban on female ejaculation in porn is no surprise. Attempts to censor women's pleasure spring eternal

• Pre Christmas porn
  Bright Desire whacks up a free porn fiesta post, replete with season's greetings and cheery, feminist porny goodness

• 6 steps to choosing sex furniture
  Sex furniture makes all kinds of kinky comfortable. What more do you need to know? Get some!

  18 Dec 2014

• The feminist pole dancer
  I am a feminist (a feisty one) and a pole dancer (a sassy one). I don't consider these aspects of self to be in conflict.

• A portrait of an intersex prostitute
  I volunteered for an organization called Aspa?sie, which campaigns for the rights of prostitutes. That's how I met Claudette, who was both a member, and a prostitute herself.

• How to have your kink and keep him too!
  There's a perception that women are the ones who react with horror if their partner confesses a desire to do dark, dirty deeds. In reality, it's often men who are most threatened.

• Porn ban goes too far
  Britain's Deputy Prime Minister says politicians should have no role in deciding how people 'get their kicks' and should not 'stick their nose' into the bedroom

• 12 things we learned about sex this year
  Over the year, we have gasped, squeaked and thumped our palm on our foreheads at some of the methods people have used, various sexual preferences and the sticky situations they have found themselves in

  17 Dec 2014

• Sex secrets of the past
  I once had a girlfriend tell me she enjoyed oral sex, but wouldn't do it for me because she thought of me as a potential husband

• Inside the face-sitting fetish
  U.K. activists are fighting a ban on face-sitting porn, which is all the excuse I need to write a primer on the act

• Why sex before marriage is the moral thing to do
  Having sex before marriage is the best choice for nearly everyone. Nearly everyone has sex before marriage; 95% of Americans don't wait until their wedding night.

• Real couples play "Sexy Charades"
  Sexy Charades is a game in which real couples are asked to act out a sex position based on its name, and its name only [video]

• Comfyballs denied trademark
  A Norwegian underwear manufacturer was denied a US trademark for their line of men's underwear under the brand "Comfyballs", being deemed vulgar

  16 Dec 2014

• 8 steps to picking a dildo
  We've made shopping for your first dildo easier, with these 8 steps

• The social psychology of the naked selfie
  We've had scandals about hacked photos going back every year for almost 10 years, and people keep writing these same reactions after each one.

• The Japanese love industry
  The Japanese are putting marriage and families on the back burner and seeking recreational love and affection as a form of cheap escape with no strings attached. [Video]

• A sex blogger asks her exes to review her performance in bed?
  You haven't truly lived until you've contacted a bunch of your ex-partners and asked them if you're really any good at sex.

• What I wish I knew about boners when I was younger
  They will betray you. Getting one will never not feel awesome. And you need to know the waistband trick.

  15 Dec 2014

• Can science or art tell you more about your sex life?
  A exhibition looks at how scientists are artists investigate sex differently, raising the question: which of the two has more to say?

• Why you may be having more orgasms soon
  New studies have shed interesting light on how often individuals experience an orgasm in different relationship situations

• Everyone I've had sex with
  A 22 year old woman details here list of lovers

• The new 'About Fcking Time' magazine
  About Fcking Time, is an online magazine for women about sex and sexuality

• Kendra Lust: the MILF next door
  Getting in bed with the porn star on the set of "Lesbian Family Affairs 2"

  13 Dec 2014

• Porn protest outside UK parliament
  Sex workers and campaigners gather to demonstrate opposition to changes to UK pornography regulations

• Sex romp in Moscow metro prompts security checks
  Moscow's aging Soviet metro system became the unlikely scene for sexual antics as a thrill-seeking young couple crept into a tunnel and made love on the tracks last week.

• Jim Carrey and Tamsin Greig have a fake orgasm face-off
  If you've ever wanted to give a convincing fake orgasm, pretend you're getting into a hot bath.

• Report calls on Canadian government to regulate sex industry
  Selling sex for money is not a crime in Canada, but the current framework is failing to keep sex workers safe.

  13 Dec 2014

• The problem with how we think about breasts
  The new movie, Free the Nipple, isn't simply about nipples, but about equality and feminism

• This Christmas, give your a mate a gilded penis
  If you're running out of gift options and have a handy £500 to spare, why not splurge on a gold brass plated penis courtesy of Tom Ford's jewellery store?

• The new magazine on sex and gender in Australia
  Archer bills itself as "Australia's first journal of sexual diversity", including sex addiction, polyamory, aboriginal and gay, gender and sex-drive. [Website]

• France's military brothels
  Prostitution and war often go hand-in-hand, where during the First World War, even the French government played a part in the sex industry, a legacy that continued almost to up to today

• London's face-sitting protest: a porno pantomime
  Hundreds of people have protested against new porn laws with a 'mass face-sitting' outside Westminster.

  12 Dec 2014

• Filth and porcupines
  Wellcome opens Institute of Sexology with expressions of outrage, Freud's desk companion and issues surrounding sexuality which resonate through the centuries

• Which countries have the best solo sexual stamina
  Pornhub has released a handy infographic ranking sexual stamina by country. The UK, Australia, New Zealand, and North America, lasted around 10 minutes, Iraq under six.

• Salesmen's sex orgies find home in museum
  They were treated to an open-air orgy in Budapest's Gellert Thermal Baths, where four-poster beds were set up and prostitutes identified with coloured armbands

• 5 better (Swedish) terms for female masturbation
  The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education asked people to come up with a better term for female masturbation. The five finalists, to be announced in June 2015, are: Klittra, Pulla, Runka, Scrolla, and, Selfa.

• Boob twerking girl gets into holiday spirit
  A delightful take on an old holiday chestnut that could only be improved with one thing. Boob twerking. Lots and lots of boob twerking. [video]

  11 Dec 2014

• Why is India so reluctant to talk about sex?
  Teaching sex in school is mandatory under Indian law but it is rarely followed. Conservative groups have long pushed for an outright ban on sex education in schools

• Men watching birth ruins their sex lives?
  If your husband can't watch you give birth, you have a problem. But my birth philosophy was: If I have to be there, you have to be there too.

• Can you decipher sexting codes teenagers use?
  CNN claims to have a list of 28 codes that teenagers text to each other to talk about sex, drugs and parties without their parents knowing.

• 5 lessons learned from a sex class
  Sex toy shops are selling more than just vibrators: some offer sex tips, tricks, and orgasm techniques too. Our writer shares what she learned from a sex class

• Real Sex is easier to film than fake sex
  Just in time for Christmas, here's an in-depth look at Hollywood's glitziest film about porn, Boogie Nights, wehre we learn that most of the non-porn actors avoided the porn stars like the plague

  10 Dec 2014

• Fake sex face sitters protest porn
  Around 500 people will descend on Westminster, London, and pretend to have sex on Friday in a shocking protest against censorship.

• UK Gogglebox turned into porn parody
  Adult network Television X has capitalised on the success of the Channel 4 hit, and adapted it into a much racier version

• Is the clothed female naked male fetish feminist?
  Ever visited PornHub and spotted an incongruous image of a naked man surrounded by clothed women? Then you've stumbled upon the fetish of CFNM: Clothed Female, Naked Male.

• 16 butts that defined 2014
  Butts were big, literally and figuratively, this year, and everyone is talking about them. People sang about butts. People ranted about butts. People had huge butts.

• 12 reasons sex is better after 50
  One of the best things about middle-age sex is the freedom and confidence to have it the way you want it.

  9 Dec 2014

• How to flirt with success this Christmas
  Helen Coffey is a self-confessed flirt. And she thought she knew it all...until she took a flirting masterclass ahead of the festive party season

• More intercourse does not equal better
  A study finds women with guy friends have more sex and the media again mysteriously decides this means "better"

• Is pubic hair making a comeback?
  I asked my 3,000 friends to weigh in; 90% of the straight men polled were vehemently against the all-bald look on their women.

• Sex work
  An extremely insightful collaboration between Robot Hugs and Vex [Cartoon]

• The demise of Japan's used underwear trade
  The once-thriving trade in used underwear, socks and uniforms from joshi kosei, or high-school girls, is also nearing extinction.

  8 Dec 2014

• Before you persuade her to watch porn
  The vast majority of porn is made by men, for men, so don't try and persuade her with spurious arguments about women 'choosing' to work in the industry

• Women who want to make sure we can all orgasm
  A new sex toy company founded by two Brooklyn-based twenty-somethings, say "We are trying to make the world a happier place, one vagina at a time."

• My first time: It's not working
  My first time came a few weeks after my first kiss. The first semester of college found me more open and friendly than I'd ever been, and probably friendlier than I've been since

• Why do people use butt plugs?
  The 'how' is self explanatory: it goes up your bottom, if you were still unsure. But lots of people are left wondering 'why'?!

• Men freaked out trying sex toys
  There's a whole range of sex toys for guys out there and generally, they look absolutely terrifying.

  7 Dec 2014

• Famous steaker goes nude again
  Thirty-three years after she ran topless across Twickenham stadium, becoming the most famous streaker ever, 56-year-old Erika Roe has agreed to reveal all, for charity. [more]

• The Sex Summary of 2014
  It's been one sexy year, from new revolutionary sex toys, to the return of Masters of Sex and a rather liberated Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, we won't forget 2014

• The women urging a repeal of the porn laws
  Online regulators can accept untold degradations as long as they happen to women

• We must teach young girls about porn
  The leader of the Girl Guides has urged parents and teachers to start informing young girls about pornography.

  6 Dec 2014

• UK pornography law: a scientific perspective
  This week Britain introduced a controversial law restricting types of online pornography. So do these new laws and their supposed rationale stand up to scientific scrutiny?

• In pictures: The Institute of Sexology exhibition
  The Institute Of Sexology features more than 200 objects and is being billed as the first UK exhibition to bring together the pioneers of the study of sex [Photos]

• See homophobia: In a Restaurant.
  On a fairly regular basis, gay couples are asked to either tone down their gayness or leave.

• Why schools can't teach sex ed in the Internet age
  Not only does sex education still virtually not exist in some areas of the USA, but school programs that do teach kids about what used to be called the facts of life start too late.

• 5 bad bedroom behaviors
  As sex educators, we believe that anyone can have an amazing sex life. So, of course, we believe in negotiation, communication and compromise, in and out of the bedroom!

  5 Dec 2014

• Yes, I'm disabled. Yes, I have sex
  Lizzie Emeh is the only British learning disabled solo artist to have released an album. She's also determined to speak out around disability and sex

• 3 ways to guarantee all-night sex
  If you're having problems with longevity in the sack, forget pills or "natural" remedies, as they'll never help

• The best nude movie scenes From 2014
  MTV has compiled a supercut of the 11 best nude scenes from the 2014's films, not all of them are sexual.

• We are all subs and bottoms
  The contrast between our making love after doing it so far 6-7000 times over 15 years and a new boyfriend's making love with us the first, second or even third times, is utterly startling.

• People who get turned on by bicycles
  The genre of bike porn can be taken as literally or as figuratively as you like. Sex with bikes, sex on bikes, sex utilizing bike-related paraphernalia... With "pedalphelia

  4 Dec 2014

• Is sex with a circumcised man different?
  Circumcision is a hotly debated sexual health issue, and now the Centers for Disease Control says benefits outweigh risks. But does the procedure impact your sex life?

• Japanese vagina kayak artist arrested again for obscenity
  A Japanese artist who made a kayak modelled on her own vagina has been arrested again in a case that has sparked accusations of censorship

• New UK porn rules are unworkable
  Restrictions on what can be depicted in UK-made online pornography are bizarre, random and won't protect our kids [more][more]

• Ben Okri wins 2014 Bad Sex in Fiction Award
  "She became aware of places in her that could only have been concealed there by a god with a sense of humour"

• The 6 most overrated sex acts and positions
  Being one of the only girls that had the password, I had an insight into my guy pal's intimate, strange desires. It was shocking yet intriguing

  3 Dec 2014

• New UK porn laws are arbitrary and sexist
  The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 impose restrictions on the content of pornography made and sold within the UK with a perplexing ignorance. [more][Bill][BBFC Guideliness(PDF)]

• New study examines casual sex lingo
  Women who've had sex are better than men at deciphering the lingo for casual sexual relationships because of the greater risk uncommitted coitus poses to them, a new study says [more]

• Isabella Rossellini on modeling, acting, 'Green Porno'
  After 14 years as the face of Lancome, model and actress Isabella Rossellini, has crawled into her snail shell, mouse suit and various other costumes to perform in "Green Porno," her solo show about the sex lives of animals.

• How President Obama backed gay marriage
  The behind-the-scenes story of how same-sex couples took on the politicians and pundits -- and won

• The first gender-neutral sex toy
  We're not so sure the world was asking for it, but the first gender-neutral sex toy has arrived, named the Transformer

  2 Dec 2014

• 5 weird sexual fetishes
  Sex is sometimes a very strange thing. There's different strokes for different folks, and then there's the weird fetishes that we've spent our afternoon reading about

• Pakistan sex taboos challenged
  Sex is a taboo word in Pakistan. It is readily associated with sin, guilt and shame. But a television channel is breaking new ground by airing a weekly call-in show discussing sexual health.

• Our Top 10 sex blogging superheroes
  Narrowing down the Top 100 Sex Blogging Superheroes is no easy task, so we made it easy by sharing one of their most recent blog posts,

• What it's really like to be a sex worker
  Cosmopolitan.com spoke to three anonymous women, all current or former sex workers, about their very different experiences.

  1 Dec 2014

• Naked and marooned for 60 days
  Ed Stafford's challenge: to survive for sixty days equipped with nothing -- no food, water, or even clothing -- except the video cameras he would use to document his time

• Pornography, kids and sex education
  More kids at ever younger ages are accessing pornography online, according to a range of international studies, but there's not much consensus about what, if anything, should be done by parents or teachers to address the issue

• The limits of GGG
  More kids at ever younger ages are accessing pornography online, according to a range GGG stands for "good, giving, and game", good in bed, giving equal time and equal pleasure, and game for anything. However, there are limits

• Failsafe porn to watch with a new boyfriend
  It's rarely acknowledged that loads of women watch porn, too, and often suffer the same nerves about sharing it as guys do.