An article conflating the two genres inspires backlash -- but the truth is, both deserve defending

Hey, guys: Are adult films making you bad at sex?

Interest in non-fiction podcasts took a dip at the start of quarantine, but downloads of fiction podcasts went up

A long list of sex acts often associated with female pleasure can no longer be featured in porn shot in the UK

Straight men look at penises? Fat women are preferable to scrawny ones? Researchers explain their amazing finds

At a sex and technology conference, a doll to test -- and improve? -- your skills at helping a lady ... well, you know.

A bit like "reading Playboy for the articles," women protest too much over their love of this gleeful stripper tale

Selena Kitt's "Babysitting the Baumgartners" rethinks romance in a very kinky way

It's not just about showing more sex from a woman's perspective. It's about who has the right to be turned on

God and the King meet again. The result: Bloodless background music.

A "Harley Quinn" scene in which Batman goes down on Catwoman has been cut. Why? "Heroes don't do that"

Everyone loves smut, says Patty Marks of Ellora's Cave, who turned kinky fiction into millions before E.L. James

Getting Close

"Mommy porn" brings romance-novel fantasies to mass culture for the first time, and everyone is freaking out

Critics sneer at XXX films. But careers like Juliet Anderson's offer as much to admire as those of John Wayne or Audrey Hepburn.