The paradox of the sexes

Frank Fisher: Debate around the idea of a 'male pill' shows you can't easily allocate responsibility for contraception along gender lines

Sex and taxes

Melissa Ditmore: Nevada's innovative $5-a-time sex tax would have given something back to the state's prostitutes

Porn: the new sex education

A Channel 4 programme reveals that teenagers feel pressure and suffer sexual hang-ups due to the pervasive influence of pornography

Sexual healing

'Just before I reached 55 I had a sudden decrease in libido, and another ten years later. Physically I don't need sex, but mentally I do.'

Sexual healing

Pamela Stephenson Connolly on the phenomenon of female ejaculation