Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, two writers in search of sexual and literary inspiration, modeled their most seductive characters on June Mansfield Miller.

Were shopgirls selling more than scents at the perfume counter? Three investigators were determined to find out.

At the start of World War I, young working-class women swooned for men in uniform, leading middle-class women to form patrols to police public morals.

The author of the preamble to the Constitution spent years in Europe as a businessman, diplomat, and connoisseur of the pleasures of the flesh.

In the U.S. and Europe, there's still discomfort around the topic of masturbation. But we’ve come a long way from tying it to mortal sin and insanity.

How the once sex-averse Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Seventh Day Adventism embraced (married, monogamous) sex as a positive ideal.

We shouldn't see changes in Americans’ sex lives as a single phenomenon with an overarching cause.

Anthropologist Jennifer Musto looked at how the rise in concern about sex trafficking, particularly in regard to the domestic trafficking of underage girls, actually plays out in policing.

Frederick Hollick's case involved not only his controversial sex-positive arguments, but also the question of who should be privy to medical knowledge about sex.

As more people begin to identify themselves as asexual, their presence is revealing the limits to certain kinds of feminist politics.