Jack Parsons, one of the “suicide squad” trio of young rocket-boy founders of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had an improbable extracurricular life.

Or, how a moribund act of legislation continues to shape the fight for reproductive rights in the United States.

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.