Tag: sexuality

• Michael – Data Workers’ Inquiry

  December 21, 2025

  A rare glimpse into the labor behind “AI” sex companions, where human emotion becomes data. https://data-workers.org/michael/ more ›

• ‘We’re sick of the OnlyFans model’: Stella Barey’s porn site lets gen Z sex workers have a life

  November 7, 2025

  The 28-year-old’s platform, Hidden, offers a Tumblr-like sensibility in an industry roiled by slop and lets adult content creators earn without burning out. When Barey decided in 2020 to pursue… more ›

• The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz

  October 23, 2025

  Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ more ›

• Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere

  September 4, 2025

  The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/emily-witt/do-you-feel-like-a-failure?utm_campaign=3750239_20250903NewIssue&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,28DPB,3GWB87,46O6R,1 more ›

• What’s a smut peddler to do these days?

  August 10, 2025

  In the aftermath of Steam and itch pulling thousands of pages of adult content, their creators are speaking about their experiences making a living selling smut. more ›

• Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex

  June 6, 2025

  Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study Berlin’s Third Sex depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway introduces… more ›

• The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic

  June 6, 2025

  The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology. These heartbreaking stories, Hirschfeld wrote in The Sexual History of… more ›

• 1984 Today!: Episode 130: Philipp Fussenegger on Creating The World’s First AI Brothel

  January 19, 2025

  https://ift.tt/BY45QqC AI has come for the world’s oldest profession! Cybrothel in Berlin offers customers a range of human-free sexual experiences involving sex dolls, AI, and virtual reality. “The world’s first… more ›

• Inside the Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

  December 31, 2023

  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. https://www.propublica.org/article/penis-enlargement-enhancement-procedures-implants more ›

• For ages, solo sex was hardly taboo. What led to its centuries-long dry spell?

  December 16, 2023

  For the vast majority of humans throughout history, masturbation has been a natural norm rather than a taboo. https://aeon.co/videos/for-ages-solo-sex-was-hardly-taboo-what-led-to-its-centuries-long-dry-spell more ›