From "Dexter" to "Game of Thrones," incest resonates -- not because a taboo has been broken, but because it endures

Salon talks with Virginia Wade, author of highly popular sasquatch smut, about the appeal of "monster porn"

Selena Kitt's "Babysitting the Baumgartners" rethinks romance in a very kinky way

He heals his lovers by subjecting them to rituals of ancient torture, but how can sado-masochism offer a path to sexual health?

Salon's resident sexpert delves deep into the inner reaches of human sexuality -- and decides she needs a break.

Indies have produced some of the most haunting, bizarre scenes of sexual behavior in the history of cinema

Amazon bans self-published porn ebooks but lets conventional ones stay, even if their content's way more extreme

An expert talks about 19th century London's flagellation brothels, pornography and sexual revolutionaries

From "Pride and Promiscuity" to "Virtues and Vices," a look at the Regency Era's decades-long steamy reappraisal

The theory of "genetic sexual attraction" offers one explanation for lust between relatives separated at birth

Is the author's latest abused-woman fantasy -- this one set in China and France in the early decades of the 20th century -- revelatory or pornographic?

A nifty Gothic fable about an intersex teen in a desolate coastal town is among the year's most striking debuts.

For mind-control erotica fans, reading about hypnotic states is the biggest turn-on.

What a shock it was to discover I didn't have a clue how to write dirty prose.

On Marriageheat.com, a Christian erotica site, users' sexy stories share a common fetish: Married, heterosexual sex