RAQQA, Syria – When reading or thinking about ISIS –- what motivates its foot soldiers, the extremity of its ideology and all the varied ugliness and violence of its methods –- one of the last things on anybody’s mind is in what ways ISIS members may be like the rest of us. It’s...

LOS ANGELES – As I’m sure you’ve read, over the weekend Hustler founder Larry Flynt published an ad in the Washington Post offering up to $10 million for “information leading to the impeachment and removal from office of Donald J. Trump.” Naturally, the first thing that came to...

LONDON – The “Internet Safety Strategy green paper” published this week by the U.K. government is unsurprisingly sprawling and ambitious. By their nature, green papers essentially are an invitation to consult, a statement of intent calling upon a wide variety of stakeholders to...

SCHENECTADY, New York – I suppose the real question is whether taking a person’s job counts as “injuring” a human. If so, so long as sex robots are designed in accordance with the Three Laws of Robotics, Ela Darling and her peers needn’t worry about being replaced by them. “Sex...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – In a couple of her recent columns for Forbes, psychologist and sex-myth-debunker Dr. Zhana Vrangalova has zeroed in on the results of a study with the catchy title “Sexual diversity in the United States: Results from a nationally representative probability...

LONDON – While reading the story of erotic photographer Annabel Findlay’s dispute with a neighbor and a builder working on her neighbor’s house, it occurred to me what may stand out most to some people is the nature of Findlay’s work, rather than the nature of the offense with...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Some folks will tell you pornography has never been as socially acceptable as it is right now, but I say those folks have never heard of ancient Rome. Back then, long before famous men began sending dick pics to women with the patently insane notion women would...

WASHINGTON – When the news broke of Hugh Hefner’s death, expressions of condolence and affection poured in from all corners of pop culture, from John Lurie to Kim Kardashian, Gene Simmons to Paula Abdul. Unsurprisingly, the perspective of anti-porn crusaders was not as positive...

NEW YORK – In a recent column for Glamour, sex therapist Emily Morse responded to a letter from a reader who said she’d like to talk dirty in bed but doesn’t want to “sound like a porn star” when doing so. “I have no idea how to talk dirty,” wrote “Marci,” a...

LAS VEGAS – It’s been a rough week for Kevin Hart, whose most famous movie may now be a too-dark, shaky short film shot in not-so-glamorous Las Vegas locations. I thought about sitting down to write a sober, sympathetic post about how extortion is always wrong, two wrongs don’t...