On the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, who “created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality.”

Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.

When Germany legalized prostitution just over a decade ago, politicians hoped that it would create better conditions and more autonomy for sex workers. It hasn’t worked out that way.

The murder of an Olympic champion and the autopsy that shook a city.

The dangerous work of harvesting your food.

A family turns to murder to save one of their own.

Most of what you know about women’s fertility rates is wrong.

On Japanese writer Gengoroh Tagame, who creates gay manga work “in the artistic tradition of Pasolini, de Sade, Yukio Mishima and Lolita.”

A crash course in Tantra and superficial spirituality.

The writer, entering her thirties single and adrift, heads to San Francisco to spend time with Kink.com’s Princess Donna Dolore and attend a gangbang “where all the men were dressed as panda bears.”

The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.

Chasing the embers of hedonism in Morocco and Tunisia, as Salafi mobs and new regimes wash over the brothels, beaches, and nightclubs of what used to be the Arab world’s most liberal cities.

Applying big data analysis to Internet Adult Film Database, the IMDB of porn.

With abortion access limited in many states, should some home abortions still be a crime?

A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?

The rise of One Direction fanfiction that imagines the band members in relationships – with each other.

An essay on Jimmy Savile, British television and child sexual abuse.

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.”

Memories of a college courtship.