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The public conversation about sex

From the NCSF, a report on What Psychology Professionals Should Know About Polyamory. McSweeney's takes a look at the conflicted existence of a female porn writer. How the Internet porn business works: Researchers set up adult Web sites to study how the industry makes its money and spreads malware. From Arena, Alison Caddick questions the mainstreaming of porn. Safe Words: How the prevention message disappeared from the public conversation about sex. A review of Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females. Sex Book Throwdown: A book battle between Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women and Nadine Strossen’s Defending Pornography. Why the T in GLBT? To understand the answer is to understand much of what animates the sexual Left. Remember the most convulsive, brain-ripping climax you ever had? Sexbots will electrocute our flesh with climaxes twice as gigantic because they'll be more desirable, patient, eager, and altruistic than their meat-bag competition. A look at 6 famous geniuses you didn't know were perverts. Why do women have sex? The answers are more diverse and abundant than you may think. Why it’s interesting why women have sex: A review of Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss's Why Women Have Sex: The Psychology of Sex in Women’s Own Voices. God, sex and love on American campuses: The sex is hot, but the heart is cold — undergraduate men today have more "fuck buddies" than dates. Have the Feds gone soft on porn? Activists urge members of Congress to take a stand against online smut. A review of Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships by Kathleen Bogle. Jon Sobel on the Great Masturbation Debate: Do I touch myself? Very well then I touch myself.