King Edward VII employed custom-made sex furniture, but how did it work?
From Manila to Victorian England.
The social side of 18th-century masturbation.
One of these things is the ideal start to a day, the other is a nice breakfast.
From brothels to the underground dominatrix scene.
From “I love you” to “I’m sorry for your loss”.
Not your average pulmonary artery.
Was the world’s most famous courtesan a devious seductress or unwilling scapegoat?
Catherine Robbe-Grillet is in her tenth decade of life, lives in a beautiful French castle, and is fully committed to BDSM. The great science fiction author Robert Heinlein once wrote, “Every gener...
How the OG online dating platform came to be—and why it continues on.
The most famous sex researchers on merging the clinical and sensual.
How the science of sexuality got its name.
From the underground to the internet via some very dodgy backstreets.
Over 100 years of shenanigans at 35,000 feet.
Kissing with tongues didn’t originate in Paris, so why credit it to the French?
From the early depictions to the FDA.
Were they buttoned-down prudes or Bridgertonesque bed-hoppers?
From polyamory to hand-drawn porn.
From corsets to Calvin Klein.
The legacy of Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg, orgasm pioneer.
Eight inches of Stone Age smoothness.
How the birds and bees have transformed over time.
Surely your arms are exactly the right length for a reason?
Physicist, mathematician, furious dildo-hater.
How common is shacking up one-on-one?
And its corresponding slang from “rubber” to “weenie beanie”.
The ancient civilization was pretty obsessed with sex in general.
Orgy origins.
From seaweed to olive oil, all the things humans used to get it on.
The landscape before, during, and after Stonewall.
