Sex toys and social enterprise: the perfect match?

Terry Hawkins explains how FPA is using its new social enterprise arm to help fund work promoting sexual awareness

Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf – review

Can women only be creative if they're having great sex? Rachel Cooke on a dotty theory

Thanks for Sharing – review

Catherine Shoard: Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad and Pink come together as sex addicts in this directorial debut from the author of The Kids are All Right

Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf – review

Does this book reveal an existential crisis among women or merely tell us more than we wanted to know about its author, asks Jenny Turner

The buzz: how the vibrator came to be

In 19th-century Britain, women suffering from chronic anxiety were prescribed pelvic finger massage. Doctors found this tedious and time-consuming, so they invented something to do the job for them. Decca Aitkenhead reports

Porn, syphilis and the politics of the money shot

Gail Dines: I regularly saw a mix of saliva, semen, faeces and vomit on porn sets. A call for condom use highlights the plight of performers

Male circumcision: the unkindest cut of all

Matt Williams: New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics run counter to medical consensus. No way will my son get the snip!

Fifty Shades of Grey is bad for bondage

These novels are wrong to demonise people whose erotic style embraces bondage, domination and sadomasochism, writes Pamela Stephenson Connolly

Access to online porn ‘twisting children’s view of sexual norms’

Deputy children's commissioner says social networking, mobiles and hardcore porn contributing to child sexual exploitation

Students are still taking unnecessary risks with their sexual health

A new survey suggests that fewer students are practising safe sex than at this time last year. Oliver Brann analyses the results