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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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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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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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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What HBO’s The Idol teaches us about porn
Its transgressive sex scenes are designed to get viewers off, go viral – and would never have been created by…
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Adventures in the manosphere
Andrew Tate has turned five months of Romanian detention into a rallying cry. I went to a bootcamp for “alpha…
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret captures the book’s timeless goodness
Funny and at points very moving, this adaptation of the Judy Blume novel has a golden heart.
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The erotic thriller has lost its sex appeal
Recent attempts to revive the genre, from Netflix’s Obsession to Paramount’s Fatal Attraction, are neither erotic nor thrilling.
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How Judy Blume became a lightning rod in the culture wars
The frank explorations of puberty and sexuality that made her books radical in the 1970s are newly controversial in the…
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