It sounds like a male fantasy: Free rent, great sex and lots of drugs. But I was wracked by guilt and inadequacy

With couples getting arrested for oceanside trysts, we look at what porn has to say about this supposedly sexy act

I was his English teacher, 14 years older. But on the beach in Mazatlan, love is love.

In this first of an occasional series of dispatches by an expatriate mom, the author belly-flops into a cultural gulf at her Parisian swimming pool.

"The Swimmer" by John Cheever

The struggles and desires of this former British colony come through in novels from Doris Lessing, a Shona woman and Zimbabwe's own bad boy of letters.

Move over, Katie Couric, I want a date with the Tanned One for my birthday.

What actually keeps us going is being able to look around and think, "If someone else can do it, maybe I can too."

Two new series take famous people, and try to make them reality TV famous instead

"He'll get his facts straight" Trump declared about his latest lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani

When Dominique Aury (1907-1998) died this year, an unflinching notion of sexuality went with her. A eulogy for the mysterious woman who wrote 'The Story of O.'

A young gay man's phallic fixation has driven him to risky promiscuity -- and he wants to understand why

I inserted myself into the pink stimulation chamber and hit Play.

We all perform motherhood in front of other mothers. But in my role, I have to pass judgment on the performance