50 Great Articles & Essays about Sex
The best writing about sex, porn, prostitution and more, all free to read onlineSex, Love and Relationships
Want to Have Better Sex? Here’s How by Nicole McNichols and Anna Martin
After 15 years teaching a class about sex, the most popular course at the University of Washington, this professor shares her most important takeaways12 Revelations About Sex by Alain de Botton
In order to transcend the discomfort that sex typically stirs, you may need to radically rethink desire, marriage, fidelity, and much more.Afterglow by Tove K Danovich
The intensity of orgasm is sublime, but the gentle love cocktail that follows is what helps relationships to endureThe Limits of Sex Positivity by Angela Chen
American culture still treats disinterest in sex as something that needs to be fixed. What if any amount of desire—including none—was okay?Why We Cheat by Lisa Taddeo
That's what I want to know. If you're going to wreck some other person's world, what's the good thing you're going to get?Boys on the Side by Hanna Rosin
Is the hookup culture an engine of female progress?Safe-Sex Lies by Meghan Daum
I've gone into more than a few relationships with the safest of intentions and discarded them soon after, and my hunch is that I'm not the only one...Memoir
My Life as a Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
Should you laugh off a lifetime of objectification – or get angry?Frigid by Jess E. Jelsma
On the internet, I read that vaginas can stretch to accommodate almost any reasonable Thing...Damage by Mariya Karimjee
When I was younger, someone took a knife to my clitoris and cut out a small but significant part of me. I blamed my mother. I despised her. I loved her.Speaking in Tongues by Sarah Prickett
The numbers in my phone don't belong to the men who were best at fucking me, but the ones who were, and are, best at telling me how they would fuck me...Tragedy Averted. Minimal Gagging. by Lidia Yuknavitch
When I first met Hannah in graduate school I was a woman gone numb. I would do anything. Anytime. Anywhere...The Year I Grew Wildly, While Men Looked On by Ashley C. Ford
At 13, who I was inside, who I wanted to be, didn't match the intentions of my body. Outside, there was no little girl to be loved innocentlyMy First Time, Twice by Ariel Levy
Nobody would gasp if they heard a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old had lost her virginity. The clock was tickingHideous Men by E. Jean Carroll
As it turns out, a Hideous Man marks practically every stage of my life...A Girl's Guide to Sexual Purity by Carmen Maria Machado
I was saved around a bonfire the summer I turned 13...The Billionaire by Carolita Johnson
If I were in Paris, what would I do? Of course. Silly me. I'd take a loverKids These Days
Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? by Kate Julian
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recessionFriends Without Benefits by Nancy Jo Sales
How dating apps, social media and porn are reshaping tennager's livesWhy Kids Sext by Hanna Rosin
A recent scandal reveals how kids think about sexting--and what parents and police should do about itSexting, Shame and Suicide by Nina Burleigh
A shocking tale of sexual assault in the digital agePorn
The Goon Squad by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless MasturbationSex Without Women by Caitlin Flanagan
What happens when men prefer porn?Pornucopia by Maria Konnikova
Critics say that porn degrades women, dulls sexual pleasure, and ruins authentic relationships -- are they right?Datagasm by Mark Hay
Ever-faster feedback loops and micro-targeted digital porn are pushing human sexuality into some seriously weird placesWhat Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn by Maggie Jones
American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time by Maureen O’Connor
The streaming sex empire may have done more to expand the sexual dreamscape than Helen Gurley Brown, Masters and Johnson, or Sigmund Freud.Hard Core by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
As recently as 15 years ago, if somebody wanted vivid depictions of, say, two men simultaneously performing anal penetration on the same woman, securing such a delicacy would require substantial effort...Secret Museums by B. Pietras
Struggling with the world’s, and his own, homophobia, one queer young man searches for intimacy in the world of internet porn.Maxed out by Evan Wright
Max Hardcore and other XXX pornographers awakened something dark in me. Or perhaps it was already there.Scenes from My Life in Porn by Evan Wright
Porn is a crude business. Even the fantasies it sells have the feel of cheap disillusionment. What seduced me was the reality.Sex Work
The Sex Trade by Sean Flynn
A three-part series on the global sex trade (part 2, part 3)Cash/Consent by Lorelei Lee
The war on sex workPaying to Play by Antonia Crane
A prostitute interviews a clientPrada Prostitutes by Howard Jacobson
Two conflicting but equally sentimental narratives of the lives of prostitutes -- and by implication the men who pay for their services -- confront each other at the moment...Daddies, "Dates," and the Girlfriend Experience by Nancy Jo Sales
The new prostitution economyMale Escorts by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
Is the growing market for male escorts a sign of female sexual liberation or just a re-run of the same old stereotypes?Or Are You Just Pleased to See Me? by Evan Hughes
Her first move, it must be said, was devastating. Straddling my legs with her knees on my chair, she flicked her long blonde hair over the top of my head so that the two of us were now in a sort of dark, warm tent, eye to eyeThe Hustlers at Scores by Jessica Pressler
A modern Robin Hood story: the strippers who stole from (mostly) rich, (usually) disgusting men and gave to, well, themselves.On Seeing A Sex Surrogate by Mark O’Brien
As I learned more about surrogates, I began to think that perhaps a surrogate could help someone even as screwed-up and disabled as meSee also...
50 Great Articles and Essays about Love and Relationships
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The Science of Sex
The Biology of Attraction by Helen E. Fisher
A comprehensive review of the biological underpinnings of sexual behaviour, from flirting and courtship to infidelity and break-ups.What Do Women Want? by Daniel Bergner
How cutting-edge research is helping to unravel the many complexities of female desire.Men, Women, Sex And Darwin by Natalie Angier
A critical look at the widely held belief that all men want to play the field, while women are programmed for monogamy.Sex Is a Coping Mechanism by Jill Neimark
Did sexual reproduction evolve to keep up with mitochondrial mutation?The Macho Sperm Myth by Robert D Martin
The idea that millions of sperm are on an Olympian race to reach the egg is yet another male fantasy of human reproductionWhy Women Stray by David Buss
Evolutionary theory says men stray to increase offspring, but what motivates women? Enter the mate-switching hypothesisSex Crime
After Two Decades Undercover, She’s Ready to Tell the Real Story of Human Trafficking by Alex Morris
For years, former FBI Special Agent Nikki Badolato led the FBI's Child Exploitation Task Force targeting some of the most heinous criminals. Now she wants Americans to know the truth about underage sex crimesAn Unbelievable Story of Rape by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.When a Son Harms a Daughter by Elizabeth Weil
Sibling sexual abuse forces parents to make an impossible choice: Do they forsake one child to protect the other?In Plain View by Malcolm Gladwell
How child molesters get away with itThe List by Sarah Stillman
When juveniles are found guilty of sexual misconduct, the sex-offender registry can be a life sentenceThe Making of a Molester by Daniel Bergner
"No one," a probation officer said, "likes to think about what's back there."Misc.
Anti-climax by Peter von Ziegesar
Coitus reservatus is an ancient technique promising bliss and longevity. Does orgasm data back up these tantric ideas?Hands Off by Emily Witt
Why men are quitting masturbationThe Nonstop Gay Sex Party on the Mexico City Subway by A.W. Strouse
The city’s metro hosts—and authorities unofficially sanction—a queer institution unlike any other.This Man Does Not Make Poppers by David Mack
For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from?How Viagra Went from a Medical Mistake to a $3-Billion-Dollar-a-Year Industry by David Kushner
Two unlikely dudes took on Wall Street, pharma nerds, and God—and got America hooked on a little blue pill.Spermpocalypse by Rosecrans Baldwin
One man journeys through the many movements—sci-fi startups, DIY donor clubs, group masturbation retreats—urgently attempting to address the impending spermpocalypse.Someone Else Was At the Wheel by Anonymous
What it's like to have sexsomniaA Gentleman's Guide To Sex In Prison by Daniel Genis
When I tell people that I recently finished serving a 10-year prison sentence for armed robbery, I often feel a question lingering in the air...As American as Apple Pie by Christopher Hitchens
From the Wild West to the Wild White House, the author explores the blowjob’s emergence as the nation’s signature sex act...The Day My Therapist Dared Me to Have Sex With Her by Michael Stahl
My analyst and I grew more intimately connected each week of treatment...The Teen Pedophile by Luke Malone
Meet the founder of a support group for non-offending teen pedophiles who are struggling to find help and control their dark secretPrecocious Puberty by Patrick Burleigh
I went through puberty at age 2Books
Bonk by Mary Roach
"The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex"What Do Women Want? by Daniel Bergner
The science of female desireThe Other Side of Desire by Daniel Bergner
Four journeys in the world alternate sexualityThe Guide to Getting It On! by Paul Joannides
The ultimate sex manualMy Secret Garden by Nancy Friday
An annotated anthology of sexual fantasies written by normal womenThe Surrender by Toni Bentley
A memoir of submission and taboo
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