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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How the Daily Mail blames women for the downfall of Tupperware – and everything else
The newspaper’s latest headline isn’t the first to hold female empowerment responsible for all the wrongs in the world.
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Who might I be now if, during my religious upbringing, I had never heard the word “sin”?
We were encouraged to have “accountability partners” to whom we would confess our “darkest” acts and desires.
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The feminist case against progress
From sex-positivity to abortion, liberal advances have dehumanised women, argues Mary Harrington – but “nature” is not always as kind as…
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Don’t make sex education a culture war
In a world of Pornhub, sexting and abuse, kids need proper teaching not baseless scaremongering.
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Mary Harrington: “Make sex consequential again”
The journalist and author on what liberal feminism gets wrong.
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The exploitative history of Hollywood sex scenes
A new documentary explores the making of intimate nude scenes of the past – and future.
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AI porn will never be sexy
Machine-generated erotica lacks a human touch.
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