November 3, 2020

Betty Dodson, Women’s Guru of Self-Pleasure, Dies at 91

Betty Dodson, a feminist sexologist and evangelist of self-pleasure who taught generations of women how to masturbate in workshops, books and videos, seeing the do-it-yourself climax […]
September 26, 2020

Strangers' Things

Pornography is the most common form of sexual experience available online — so common, perhaps, that a market for rarer intimacies has emerged. Bottles of influencer […]
September 26, 2020

The New Unsexy Sexy Marketplace

Pornography is the most common form of sexual experience available online — so common, perhaps, that a market for rarer intimacies has emerged. Bottles of influencer […]
September 1, 2020

How to Submit a Modern Love Essay

ImageCredit…Brian Rea Although Modern Love has evolved into a podcast, a book, a TV show and Tiny Love Stories in its 16 years, the column’s central […]
August 18, 2020

The Glory (and the Taboo) of ‘WAP’

I was thrilled to listen to and watch “WAP,” Cardi B. and Megan Thee Stallion’s recently released homage to female sexuality and vaginal, shall we say, […]
August 8, 2020

Katie Hill, Who Stepped Down From Congress After Nude Photos, Publishes Book

If Katie Hill were a different person, she might have gone away and found religion. Perhaps she would have tearfully apologized, a dutiful husband by her […]
June 4, 2020

‘His Body Doesn’t Belong to Me’

When my boyfriend walks through the door of our apartment every night, he strips. While I’m still on a Google Hangout with my colleagues, there he […]
April 10, 2020

Sex and the Coronavirus: Reader Questions, Answered

Last week, we asked for your questions about sex and the coronavirus. You had many. Common queries involved the levels of precautions that one could theoretically […]
March 26, 2020

You Are Your Safest Sex Partner. Betty Dodson Wants to Help.

What does it take to make Gwyneth Paltrow blush? Not much more, it turns out, than some explicit coaching on how to tone her pelvic floor. […]
March 26, 2020

You Are Your Safest Sex Partner. Betty Dodson Wants to Help.

What does it take to make Gwyneth Paltrow blush? Not much more, it turns out, than some explicit coaching on how to tone her pelvic floor. […]