"Fifty Shades" may have popularized the sexier variant on traditional romance, but now it's here to stay

Abstinence programs and ominous TV commercials are turning American children into nut cases.

Online pornography is now a multibillion-dollar industry, and a handful of amateur sites are cashing in

Years of Internet smut screwed with my mind. With my girlfriend's help, I tried to reprogram how I get turned on

Everyone loves smut, says Patty Marks of Ellora's Cave, who turned kinky fiction into millions before E.L. James

9. Lenny Kravitz has long been Top 40's perennial peacock. But a humble film role made him seem like a real man

Were the Vargas girls about erotic subtlety or female oppression? Salon readers discuss David Amsden's essay.

Clive Barker talks about the connection between pleasure and pain, and why everyone is a "book of blood."

The decriminalization of consensual sex work as an inroad to worker's safety

Talk-show producers love to chat me up, but they always leave me high and dry.

Author Susie Bright takes a look at the daring, revolutionary days of pre-Internet smut

Even conservatives who fancy themselves intellectuals make insulting and unreasoned arguments against gay marriage

I love writing about sex, but don't believe in telling kids things they aren't ready to handle.

Fleshbot premieres its erotic e-book imprint, hoping that good writing matters more than particular kinks

Gwyneth Paltrow's "Sex, Love & goop" and Saweetie's "Sex: Unzipped" disrupt our discomfort talking about sex