Sex Week
Here's How Our Readers Are Thinking About Sex And Consent
More than 30,000 people shared their thoughts.
Tomi Obaro
Men Who Date Women Reflect On Their Sex Lives
The point isn’t to defend or denounce these men, but to understand them.
Liza Veale
Why Some Guys Like Jerking Off Together
I went looking for other men who consider mutual masturbation an important sexual experience in its own right.
John Sherman
Inside The World Of Brooklyn Dominatrixes And Their Orthodox Jewish Clients
"Hasids are outsiders in New York, and so are sex workers. So, I think they maybe see us in a weird way as outlaws, like them."
Hannah Frishberg
When You’re An Asexual Assault Survivor, It’s Even Harder To Be Heard
Some asexual people say they've been pressured into sex, or assaulted or raped by people trying to "correct" their identities — and afterward, they still aren't believed.
Julie Kliegman
Realizing I’m Bisexual Helped Me Learn How To Have The Sex I Wanted
I’ve learned that the key to good sex isn’t finding The One — it’s being honest about what I want, and what I don’t.
Krutika Mallikarjuna
Sex Toys Will Never Be Able To Do The Hardest Work For You
In the years I worked at a sex shop, I saw how the pressure to have great sex — in a world that will never be a level playing field — can inflict its own kind of damage.
Fancy Feast
Having Sex When Your Partner Is The Same Gender, But A Different Size
I thought I was ashamed of my body because the straight world told me to be. But it wasn't that simple.
Lauren Strapagiel
Porn Stars Are Getting Personal To Combat Piracy
“You can’t pirate someone saying your name.”
Blake Montgomery
How I've Navigated Sex And Consent As A Hard-Of-Hearing Person
Being hard of hearing means that I miss some things in bed. But sometimes our supposed limitations can give us our most creative advantages.
Anna Pulley
I'm Obsessed With These 1970s Cosmo Covers
These magazine covers — simultaneously smart and dumb, progressive and retrograde — are a Rosetta stone for understanding sex and womanhood in the Me Decade.
Abbey Bender
When You Have 3 Boyfriends, Getting An IUD Is Complicated
Because I'm polyamorous, my decision to get on birth control had to go through an unusual chain of command.
Rachel Cromidas
