Sexuality

Teenage girls are challenging the meaning and the traditional constraints of gender—but many boys are still trying to fit into a gender structure that has historically benefited them.

The latest academic hoax emerges from the same ideological position as the Trump administration's attack on trans rights.

There's a chance the sexual culture being cultivated by Millennials can diminish the environment of harassment and assault that's plagued so many workplaces.

If there's an upside to the government's failure to promote legitimate sex education, it's been the convergent rise of the local sex shop and the university seminar as two venues for frank and meaningful discussion.

For anyone who isn't a straight man, sexual education and the media can get sexuality wrong. Fan fiction is helping change that.

A meta-study finds "female Viagra" to have low-to-moderate benefits and side effects.

Or do scientists just not know how to measure female arousal the way they do male arousal?

Are unattractive women more likely to identify as bisexual?

Defense Secretary Ash Carter has some questions. Research can provide some answers.

Despite Blume’s best efforts, young people in the U.S. still lack adequate information about their bodies and sexuality—and they’re not alone.

A new study finds Americans’ sexual attitudes keep getting more liberal, but Millennials have pulled back a bit in terms of their number of sexual partners.

If a man donates a disproportionate amount of money to an attractive woman, other men will likely follow suit.

Maybe it's not politically feasible, but most kids will need sexual knowledge more than Shakespearean verse to be functioning adults. Here's a sample curriculum.

New research confirms that the color red sends a signal of sexual availability.

Efforts to increase transparency—and safety—at colleges and universities.

Sexuality is a fundamental component of the human experience, and it's one we need to have a better understanding of.

Of kinks, crimes, and kinds: A look behind the scenes at how the American Psychiatric Association's Paraphilias Sub-Work Group proposed revisions to the DSM for all manner of things relating to sexual arousal brought about by atypical objects, situations, or individuals.

This simple idea, encouraged by medical texts of the past that taught deviation from the norm would lead to confused sexuality and gender identity issues, has put a surprising number of babies under the knife.

Despite its prevalence—36 percent of U.S. adults have practiced it in some form—BDSM remains stigmatized in U.S. culture.

The biggest issue is not surgery, nor hormonal treatments, nor even the criminal lack of psychological support. The biggest issue is shame, and how no one deals with it in a way that lets people know there is nothing to be ashamed of.

New research suggests women aren’t automatically opposed to sexual imagery in advertisements, but they do object when it is used to sell cheap products.

Paul Hiebert talks with the Valerie Steele, co-curator of A Queer History of Fashion, about the new exhibit.

Cross-cultural research suggests that, when it comes to erotic stimulation, men and women are more alike than many realized.

He may have been the world's first out bisexual rock star—but what really matters is that everyone thought he was.