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The penis: a life
Boned, spined, spiked, corkscrewed or double-headed: why did so much variety arise when a simple tube...
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Female husbands
Far from being a recent or 21st-century phenomenon, people have chosen, courageously, to trans gender throughout...
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Testosterone is widely, and sometimes wildly, misunderstood
We place unreasonable trust in biological explanations of male behaviour. Nowhere is this truer than with...
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Islam has a long tradition of explicit sexual discussion – Mark Hay | Aeon Essays
Popular stereotypes of Islam as a prudish religion ignore rich traditions of freewheeling, explicit erotica and...
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What my father’s infidelities taught me about intimacy – Lily Dunn | Aeon Essays
A polyamorous friend challenges me: are you really happily monogamous or are you just hung up...
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Tantric sex promises healthy bliss; what does the science say? – Peter von Ziegesar | Aeon Essays
Coitus reservatus is an ancient technique promising bliss and longevity. Does orgasm data back up these...
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How Margaret Mead became a hate figure for conservatives – Sam Dresser | Aeon Essays
Mead argued that non-Western cultures offered alternative (often better) ways to be human. Why was she...
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What being asexual or aromantic tells us about sex and romance – Natasha McKeever & Luke Brunning | Aeon Essays
What is it like to feel love and share physical intimacy yet feel no sexual attraction...
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What is to be done about the problem of creepy men? – Heidi Matthews | Aeon Ideas
These days, ‘creepy’ is a popular pejorative. From ‘Creepy Uncle Joe’ Biden’s hair-smelling antics to Justin...
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Lolita understood that some sex is transactional. So did I – Tamara MacLeod | Aeon Ideas
There is a moment in Adrian Lyne’s film Lolita (1997) that is burned onto my memory....
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How ancient poetry can revitalise our erotic imaginations – Jamie Mackay | Aeon Essays
Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi are far more stimulating than...
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Italy’s erotic revolution in art joined the lusty to the divine – James Grantham Turner | Aeon Ideas
In the Sistine Chapel, you look up at Michelangelo's Last Judgment and see muscular angels hurtling...
