Not long after the 2016 Republican National Convention, I got a tip from a friend of mine. An old acquaintance of his in California was close to a woman in the adult-film industry who claimed to have had an affair with Donald Trump. I reached my friend’s friend, who put me in touch with the actress, who is known as Stormy Daniels.

A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

Everyone's talking about them, but what, exactly, is the message?

Clare Pettitt on Charles Darwin’s method and approach to his scientific discoveries and the influence of ideology in shaping his theory of sexual selection.

At the start of this year, the world was left baffled when evidence emerged of a male snow monkey unsuccessfully getting it on with a female Sika deer on Japan's Yakushima Island.

What Lorin Stein’s resignation from The Paris Review over sexual misconduct reveals about the true index of male power. By Wesley Yang.

The #MeToo moment has now morphed into a moral panic that poses as much danger to women as it does to men. By Claire Berlinksi.

Many people find Moore’s alleged sexual assaults disturbing, but the romantic pursuit of teens appears to be an accepted practice in some parts of the fundamentalist Christian community. By Matt Kwong.

“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now. By Laurie Penny.

Scroll through the In Real Life (IRL) section of streaming site Twitch and you could be forgiven for thinking, now and then, that you have landed on a camgirl site. Scattered among the artists, cooks and professional eaters are a growing band of young women wearing revealing clothing while they game. Some go further and entertain fans by dancing or by doing a series of suggestive exercises, like squats, to tempt people to subscribe to their channel or to hand over Twitch's micro-currency - bits.

Literary theory, avalanches and a frosty encounter on a beach – it’s time to get up close and personal with the challengers for the Literary Review’s 2017 Bad sex in fiction prize.

Laura Kipnis reviews “Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back” by Gretchen Carlson.

In the current moment, we risk reverting to a more sexually restrictive era—one that denied agency to women. By Masha Gessen.

In 2013, Hunger Games actor Josh Hutcherson told an interviewer for Out magazine that he was, in his own words, “mostly straight.” “Maybe I could say right now I’m 100 percent straight. But who knows? In a fucking year, I could meet a guy and be like, ‘Whoa, I’m attracted to this person’ … I’ve met guys all the time that I’m like, ‘Damn, that’s a good-looking guy,’ you know? I’ve never been, like, ‘Oh, I want to kiss that guy.’ I really love women. But I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close-minded.”

The sex doll industry is on the verge of greatness, in its own special way. Soon the Stepford Wives of science fiction will become real, thanks to the magic of AI. Men will be able to create their perfect, subservient silicon partner that knows their hopes, dreams, fears, and fantasies.

They did or said something awful, and made something great. They are monster geniuses, and I don’t know what to do about them. By Claire Dederer.

Tracing the evolution of hidden sexual preferences. By Michael J. Ryan.

Thanks to a progressive attitude (and strong scientific funding), this country is on the leading edge of knowledge about sexuality. By Zosia Bielski.

I confess to being troubled rather than elated by the daily rumble of idols falling to accusations of “sexual misconduct,” the morbid masscult fixation that conceals private titillation, knowing smirks, and sadistic lip-smacking behind a public mask of solemn reproof… By William Kaufman.

O sisters, gather round! The Peloponnesian War on Women continues, and we are fucking done with this shit.