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We are defined by our desires
It’s little wonder we are so confused by them.
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Who’s getting lucky at parties these days?
Not me.
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Schools need more sex education, not less
Children must be prepared for the world as it is.
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How to do it like a movie star
The lessons an intimacy coordinator is teaching the film industry about real sex apply off screen and on.
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Eimear McBride’s literature of desire
The Irish author’s exhilarating fourth novel, The City Changes Its Face, proves there is nobody writing sex like her.
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The perils of polyamory
Molly Roden Winter’s riveting, explicit memoir More makes the case for open marriage as self-help – but her logic is…
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Ireland’s progressive centre cannot hold
As Leo Varadkar steps down as Taoiseach, voters are turning away from the Republic’s mainstream liberal consensus.
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Open relationships won’t save you
Polyamory is much more complicated than its cheerleaders will admit.
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Sex in the age of digital desire
The proliferation of online pornography has degraded the way we view our bodies and relationships.
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Who, in this Wild West of contraception, can you trust?
Whatever the method, reading the endless lists of side effects is a preventative in itself.
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Inside the erotic mind
Psychoanalyst Darian Leader’s study of the motivations behind sex and desire is irredeemably bonkers.
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How to Have Sex understands teen girl desire
This provocative, insightful film blows up a particular adolescent experience to better see its nuances.
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The manosphere is poisoning conservatism
Fringe ideas about sex have increasing political power on the right.
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Can Camille Paglia save porn?
The writer can help us find a new language of desire.
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Passages is Ira Sachs’s “horny film”
The director’s art-house film concerns a catastrophic ménage-a-trois.
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How Nigel Farage became the hero of sex workers
The Prime Minister himself spoke out when Farage’s Coutts bank account was closed – would he have done the same…
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Kevin Spacey’s last stand
In his films, he acted like he had a secret. But in court facing criminal charges relating to his sex…
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Why biological sex matters
Some argue that lived experience and personal choice trump biology – but they are wrong.
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The gender binary is false
We should question a mindset that viciously excludes whole groups of people.
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