Life inside Long Island’s largest cluster of sex offenders.

On Queens’ stubbornly unchanging Roosevelt Avenue, where immigrants pay $2 a song to grind against hired dancers and shuttered houses of prostitution have given way to rolling brothel-vans.

How Tony Galeota went from mobbed-up teen on Long Island to legendary strip club manager in Miami to distraught prisoner in a Panamanian jail.

A torrid phone sex affair begins with a random call in a motel and ends a year later with a face-to-face meeting.

The rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea.

“If you think cam girls—those flirty naked characters that plague porn site pop-up ads—are raking in easy money, you’re right. If you think cam girls are bleakly stripping online out of desperation, you’re also right.”

On the 1,600-year-old text that suggests that Jesus, long believed to be celibate, was a married man.

Memories of a college courtship.

Sex and status disclosure in the age of Grindr and undetectable HIV-levels.

How Cosmo, with 64 international editions and a readership that would make it the world’s 16th largest country, conquered the globe.

A survey of sex on a Saturday night in New York City.

The author interviews her mother about life as a secretary at Playboy in 1960s New York City.

A profile of Doc Johnson, “the Procter & Gamble of sex toys.”

On the Boston mobster’s exes.

I am gay. I am Mormon. I am married to a woman. I am happy every single day. My life is filled with joy. I have a wonderful sex life. And I’ve been married for ten years, and plan to be married for decades more to come to the woman of my dreams.

A former sex worker interviews a longtime John on how it feels to pay for it.

A profile of Fleshlight inventor Steve Shubin.

The anatomy of a sex abuse scandal at a Christian school in Oklahoma.

Ostensibly straight black men who have sex with other men.

A summer as a whorehouse Madame.

How one company is rethinking the business of sex toys.

On having sex with your high school girlfriend – and paying the price for years to come.

Iran’s sex-obsessed old guard reacts to a state where “the majority of the population is young.… Young people by nature are horny. Because they are horny, they like to watch satellite channels where there are films or programs they can jerk off to.… We have to do something about satellite television to keep society free from this horny jerk-off situation.”

How a scandal involving sex, money and a Wiccan coven brought down yogi John Friend.

A profile Hunter Moore,  the founder of the controversial revenge-porn site Is Anyone Up.