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Love: The old, old story
It's the fact of life they rarely teach you when you're growing up: the slow, inevitable cooling of desire that creeps up on us with age. Should we welcome it – or rage against the dying of sexual intoxication? Thomas Sutcliffe reflects on love and time
China takes wrecking ball to erotic theme park
This investment turned out to be as risky as it was risque.
Queen of broken hearts
How many ways are there to deal with a painful break-up? There's bagging up or burning an errant partner's belongings. Perhaps a few evenings of weepy movies and a bottle or three of Pinot Noir. You can cry it out, exercise it out, diet it out. Or just go-out-it out, hurling yourself around the nightclubs in search of deliciously meaningless rebound sex.
A brief guide to erotic fiction
From the tender to the grotesque, throughout history, erotic literature has offered us a private space in which to celebrate and contemplate the intricate workings of human sexuality. Here, we explore some of the key works of this genre. Click the image on the right to launch.
Is this a new age of female sexual assertiveness?
Paloma lives in the basement of a tall, regal-looking building on a smart street in west London. Hers is a spacious studio flat with a neat patio area, just big enough for a potted herb garden and wrought-iron table with matching chairs.
Naughty but ever so nice
The rest of the economy may be struggling, but the erotica industry is booming – especially among the respectable middle classes. John Walsh considers our national obsession with spicing up our sex lives
Love, honour – and annoy
For Slavica Ecclestone it was his long hours; for Jennifer Aniston, his constant Twittering. Hannah Betts winkles out the ugly truth behind 'unreasonable behaviour'
Desire: What ignites our lust?
A new generation of sexologists is trying to discover what really ignites our lust. On the most passionate date in the calendar, John Walsh and Catherine Townsend uncover the truth about what turns us on
Polish priest pens ‘Catholic Kama Sutra’
A Polish priest has raised eyebrows with the publication of a sex manual advising couples to enjoy a "saucy and fantasy-packed" love life.
Should women trade in their surname when they get married?
As the newly married Rebekah Wade becomes Mrs Charlie Brooks, Clare Dwyer Hogg examines the politics of trading in a surname
'Daily sex for week boosts conception chance'
Daily sex keeps a man's sperm spry and is recommended for couples wanting a baby, research has shown.
Why was the Swiss gigolo so successful?
How did this man pull some of Europe's smartest women with the world's cheesiest pick-up lines? Sophie Morris explains what the case really reveals
The rules of attraction
Are lovers drawn together by the magical meeting of minds – or by hormones, body shape and evolutionary instincts? Rob Sharp explains the unromantic truth behind what makes us hot (or not)
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