Women who are concerned about threatening their male partner’s masculinity are more likely to fake orgasms and less likely to communicate honestly about their sexual needs, according to new research published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. The findings shed new light on how relationships can be impacted by precarious manhood — the belief that one’s status as a “real man” is hard to attain but easily lost.

Here’s a headline that's impossible to resist: “Huge New Survey Documents How Americans Have Sex.” Who wouldn’t read that? There’s a bit of the voyeur in all of us. We’re fascinated by everyone else’s sexuality. We want to know what’s “normal,” “average,” “typical,” and “conventional,” so we can compare ourselves to the supposed standard. Only there is no norm.

Late last year, a team of five Canadian academics published a proposal calling upon major space organizations “to embrace a new discipline” of study. This new discipline, they argued, may prove vital to the success of planned efforts to push deeper into space — and potentially build off-world human settlements. They called this supposedly game-changing new field of research “space sexology: the scientific study of extraterrestrial intimacy and sexuality.”

A team of researchers used a machine learning algorithm to examine the best predictors of sexual satisfaction across two samples. Romantic love, dyadic sexual desire, the importance of sex in a relationship, and relationship satisfaction were among the top predictors of sexual satisfaction. The findings were published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Around two in every 100 people have sex characteristics between the male-female binary definitions. Training for doctors and other health workers needs to reflect this.

An analysis of data collected across 10 world regions suggests that men’s self-esteem is more strongly tied to their sexual success than women’s.

Although we might think of ourselves as far removed from blobby green algae, we're not really that different.

Pop culture has become more and more sexualised, as sex is sold to us willy-nilly. But young people are turning away from it in droves, writes the Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

The Real Doll (@realdoll) Instagram account exposed the inner workings of a sex robot factory showing a woman surrounded by the busty unfinished dolls to their 46k followers.

The importance of getting a good night's sleep cannot be overstated. Lack of sleep can lead to a number of health problems and affect a woman's overall quality of life. A new study suggests that insufficient quality sleep also may lead to problems in the bedroom in the form of female sexual dysfunction. Study results are published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

A national survey indicates nearly half of all Year 10-12s (15-18 year-olds) have had sex, but experts say sex ed in Australia is a "mixed bag". Is our curriculum too focused on "bugs and babies and bodies"?

The last TikTok Ally Hardesty posted on her page was a video of her and her friend doing a dance to the KaMillion remix of “Twerk For Me.” Although she is a sex worker who posts NSFW content on her OnlyFans, a subscription-based platform that allows influencers to monetize personal interactions with fans, she was sure to keep the video PG, dressing in her videos only in sweats or pajamas. “I’m always really intentional about keeping lingerie or little outfits or anything I wear on OF separate from TikTok,” she tells me. “I just liked to do dances with my friends and stuff.”

Medical textbooks are full of anatomical pictures of the penis, but the clitoris barely rates a mention. Many medical professionals are uncomfortable even talking about it

Hundreds of sea turtles are gathering off the coast of Bundaberg for a frenzied annual breeding season involving hooks, multiple partners, the threat of sharks and the odd case of mistaken identity.

Have you ever been turned on by the idea of a partner talking "dirty" to you? If so, you're not alone. It turns out that dirty talk is an extraordinarily popular sexual interest. But just how many people are into it, and why? What is it that so many people find arousing about this?

Pornography use does not appear to harm couples’ satisfaction with their relationship, according to new research published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships that collected 13,134 daily surveys from 434 Canadian individuals. The new findings shed light on how the use of explicit material is related to sexual functioning and relationship dynamics.

The case against Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, and Prince Andew, has ensnared his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

Sexual feelings are not abnormal in themselves. After all, biologically and psychologically men and women are supposed to have a natural and strong attraction for each other.

Reciprocation of attraction — people’s tendency to like those who like them — may encourage the initiation of relationships with targets of interest. Immediately reciprocating another person’s expression of liking, however, may not be the most effective strategy for attracting mates. Indeed, people who are too easy to attract may be perceived as more desperate and thus as less valuable and appealing than those who do not make their romantic interest apparent right away.

Men who distrust science and hold more conservative political views are more likely to seek to abstain from masturbation, according to new exploratory ...