February 4, 2020

Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History

SEDUCTION A History From the Enlightenment to the Present By Clement Knox Seduction is an especially fraught subject because we have long had trouble agreeing on […]
December 29, 2017

9 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2018

Advertisement Damien Rosa, 14 (center), and his buddies at Sneaker Con.CreditKrista Schlueter for The New York Times Sneaker Con, a gathering of shoe fanatics founded in […]
December 27, 2017

Modern Love: 10 Ways to Love Better

Remarkable images from 2017, from Donald Trump Jr. to Nicki Minaj to Idris Elba to this one chihuahua. The 62nd International Debutante Ball held at the […]
November 28, 2017

Finally Putting Some Fun in Erectile Dysfunction

Advertisement To whisper into the millennial’s heart, as the 2017 playbook says, look first to his houseplant. Millennials: They love plants! So when Hims, a new […]
November 18, 2017

For the First Family of Pleasure Products, Toys Are Us

LOS ANGELES — Back in 1976, when Chad Braverman’s father, Ron, invested a small grubstake in a manufacturing start-up, consumers bought his products at the back […]
November 7, 2017

Modern Love: Looking for the ‘Bad Mother?’ She’s Still Here

Advertisement It was 2005 when Ayelet Waldman declared in Modern Love that she was the only one in her Mommy and Me class who was still […]
October 28, 2017

Virtual Reality Gets Naughty

In early 2014 Ela Darling, 31, a pornographic actress, recorded her first virtual reality sex scene. She was in a college dorm room at the University […]
July 28, 2017

Modern Love: During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered

Modern Love By ANDREW RANNELLS I don’t remember his last name. His first name was Brad, which is the perfect name for a relatively faceless memory […]
May 19, 2017

Modern Love: Not Friends? Then No Benefits

Modern Love By EMILY DEMAIONEWTON My friend Nathan and I were walking to a picnic when we passed a woman named Xenia. I stopped to say […]
April 13, 2017

Social Q’s: Unsettled by a Sex Tape Request

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES I’ve been dating my boyfriend for six years. We are in our 40s. Early on, we made some sex videos. They […]