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Sexuality

June 2026

  • Four African women by a billboard advertising the 4th African inter-parliamentary conference on family values and sovereignty

    ‘Family values’ African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerous

    Draft treaty claims sexual and reproductive health and rights are an existential threat to the African family

May 2026

  • A person kneels on the floor embracing another person at floor level, with seated figures visible above

    Stripteases, ecstatic embraces and a dog in a dress: the full-on photos celebrating queer dancefloors worldwide

    A thrillingly unsanitised new photo book captures the liberating power of queer clubs in all their sexy, messy, kinky, cacophonous glory. ‘I wanted it to feel like a night out,’ says the woman behind it
  • A detailed classical painting of the god Mars looking at a sleeping Venus, painted in the 18th century.

    Nymphomaniacs and sex droughts: what I learned while studying women’s pleasure

    In antiquity, women were considered the more sexual sex – hornier, more libidinous and lust-fuelled than men. Why did that perception change?
  • A transgender woman in a bright red and green sari dances among drummers and onlookers outdoors.

    ‘It’s like a trans-Barbie world!’: the Indian festival where transgender women can celebrate without fear

    The annual gathering at Koovagam is rooted in an ancient poem. Five trans attendees talk about what the event means to them in light of a controversial change to the country’s gender recognition law

March 2026

  • A composite image of three different people

    Building power
    Say gay: feminist magazine reclaims Charlie Kirk-style campus tours after Florida DEI cuts

  • An art collage of photographs of students in a classroom and the logo of Florida State university

    Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’

  • Bouchra.

    Bouchra review – Prada-wearing coyote is anti-identitarian alter ego in film that maps queer experience

  • Phillippa Wilson in Shuggy Boats at Live theatre, Newcastle.

    Shuggy Boats review – 60th birthday party brings a sexual revelation

  • Building power
    A Mississippi mother couldn’t find accurate sex ed for her kids. So she started a class at church

  • ‘The smell wasn’t healthy’: the artist who wore 24 nappies to highlight sewage pollution – and fell ill

  • My cultural awakening
    My cultural awakening: a Rihanna song showed me how to live as a gay man in Iran

  • My sexual freedom odyssey: what ancient African wisdom can teach us about pleasure today

  • The modern mind
    double quotation markAs a psychologist, I’ve seen that polyamory doesn’t fix relationships – it reveals them

    Carly Dober

February 2026

  • ‘She would pop up in my sexual fantasies’: what happens when you fancy your therapist?

    They’re often compassionate good listeners who focus on their clients’ needs – so is it any wonder many patients find themselves with a crush? A writer, who is in exactly this position, talks to people on both sides of the couch
  • illustration of three cherries, two of which appear to be blowing kisses at each other while the other sheds a tear.

    The big idea
    Are we hard-wired for infidelity?

    Monogamy may be held up as an ideal, but evolution has other ideas
  • A woman with cropped, dark-red hair, wearing a pink, fluffy jumper and black trousers and large leaf-shaped earrings and red nail polish, stands with her hands in her pockets, in her living room next to a blue corduroy sofa with matching cushions with a brown dachshund sitting on it. Both she and the dog are looking at the camera

    I spent years meeting strangers for masochistic hook-ups. Was I a sex addict?

    After a sexually frustrating marriage led to divorce, I chased increasingly extreme BDSM encounters. But I never felt truly satisfied. Had I been looking for the wrong thing all along?

January 2026

  • Heklina sitting at a black table wearing a black, white, red and yellow patterned outfit, bangles on both wrists, a large ring on either hand and a wide, bronze beehive wig

    ‘She was a bitch in the best possible way’: the life and mysterious death of drag queen Heklina

  • Two men gaze at each other romantically in the shower

    Women are feral for Heated Rivalry. What does that say about men?

December 2025

  • Illustration of a woman turning away from a man in bed

    Sexual healing
    Threesomes, rough towels and ‘lesbian bed death’: 23 of the best Sexual Healing columns

  • F&M: the struggles of gay male pop stars

    ‘Men explicitly loving men is so threatening to the status quo’: why are gay male pop stars being shut out of the music industry?

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