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Pornography
Who Actually Lost the Sex Wars? And were there any winners? A conversation with Christine Emba, Nona Willis-Aronowitz, and Lorna Bracewell.
By Irin Carmon
Imagine Suing Your Parents Over Porn A 43-year-old man who sued his parents after they threw away his extensive porn collection will receive over $30k for his losses.
By Mia Mercado
Sex Was the Best Part About Tumblr Why softcore porn was the best part of the platform.
By Amanda Arnold
the chain gang
Nov. 29, 2018
By Nikita Richardson
Man Who Posed As Porn Scout to Trick Women Into Sex Faces No Major Consequences The fraud even admitted what he did on tape, but police argue the sex was technically consensual.
By Amanda Arnold
Anthony Weiner Could Reportedly Face Child-Pornography Charges Federal prosecutors are still discussing the charges with Weiner’s attorneys.
By Claire Landsbaum
pornography
Aug. 23, 2016
By Jesse Singal
moral panics
May 24, 2016
What Is Utah’s Anti-Porn Craze Really About? One scholar doesn’t think it has much to do with actual public-health concerns.
By Jesse Singal
beta male
May 24, 2016
My Life As a ‘Sploshing’ Fetish Star Men everywhere are paying to see me get pied in the face.
By Corey Levitan
Is VR Porn Sexy? Inside the brave new frontier of America’s adult industry: virtual reality.
By Brian Moylan
The Origins of Utah’s Fake ‘Public-Health Crisis’ Over Porn A textbook example of what happens when science gets politicized.
By Jesse Singal
last night on late night
Nov. 13, 2015
By E. Alex Jung
vulture lists
July 18, 2014
How Popular Would Ross and Rachel’s Sex Tape Have Been in Real Life? A porn director assesses the viability of that and ten other fictional sex tapes.
By Lee Roy Myers
The Porn Flâneur: What Baudelaire and LubeTube Have in Common For the viewer, the internet is a garden of carnal delight—and carnal anthropology.
By Maureen O'Connor
Narcissists Watch More Internet Porn And the more XXX-rated content people watched, the more narcissistic they tended to be.
By Melissa Dahl
Q&A: The Man Making Gay Porn for Charity Mike Kulich is America’s first nonprofit pornographer.
By Maureen O'Connor
true stories
Aug. 29, 2013
The Crusading Sisterhood of Revenge-Porn Victims Revenge porn is illegal in one state. Why not the other 49?
By Maureen O'Connor
Celebrity Amazon Wish Lists: Inevitable? Farrah Abraham seeks sexy maid costume, baby toys.
By Maureen O'Connor
weinergate forever
July 25, 2013
By Maureen O'Connor
smut studies
Apr. 9, 2013
The Death of the Celebrity Sex Tape How Kim Kardashian’s co-star became a relic.
By Maureen O'Connor
huge mistakes
Mar. 5, 2013
By Maureen O'Connor
here she comes
Feb. 26, 2013
The Teen Beauty Queen and the Barely Legal Porno Why Miss Delaware Teen USA shouldn’t surprise us.
By Maureen O'Connor
let’s talk about…
Oct. 1, 2012
What Porn Means to Us: 20 Couples Open Up From tentacles to Baywatch : How we fear, love, share, hide, and imitate porn.
By Meaghan Winter
osama bin killed
May 13, 2011
By Nitasha Tiku
the porn identity
Jan. 31, 2011
By Chris Rovzar
so you think you can porn?
July 14, 2010
Apparently, Playboy ’s Still Got It But as far as punny headlines go, the media’s been putting in a poor showing.
By Chris Rovzar
when porn pops up
July 14, 2009
A Grandma Accidentally Borrowed a Porno From the Library Her copy of ‘Austin Powers’ really does make you horny, baby.
By Jessica Pressler
aspirations
Apr. 29, 2009
Sasha Grey and the Top Ten Adult Stars Gone Legit It’s become almost obligatory for any self-respecting adult performer (and some not-so-self-respecting ones) to appear in non-porn media.
By Bilge Ebiri
Vermont Upset About Burton’s Porn Boards Naked women show up on snowboards. Offensive or not?
By Sharon Clott
campaign trail
Nov. 12, 2008
By Sharon Clott
rebels with a cause
Oct. 22, 2008
Ben Westwood Stages Protest With Fetish Models Vivienne Westwood’s son was protesting a bill that will outlaw extreme pornography on January 1.
By Lauren Murrow
Ron Jeremy vs. His Ghostwriter In a battle of words between a porn star and an actual writer, round one goes to the writer.
Dispatch From BEA: Ron Jeremy, Best-selling Author “‘He was this, this, this, this, a lot of dick jokes, now he’s really stiff, and best-selling author.’”
cover story
Apr. 29, 2008
Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape Has Best-Looking Sex-Tape Cover Ever The cover looks so legit that we wonder why today’s hot twentysomething stars don’t record sex tapes as a kind of retirement plan.
tube junkie
Sept. 11, 2007
World’s First Porno for Plants Not Nearly As Hot As It Could Have Been Artist Jonathan Keats’s Cinema Botanica is, he claims, the world’s first porno film for plants and features “explicit acts of cross pollination.”
