The Roman emperor Caligula is best known for making his horse a senator, but the figure portrayed in Albert Camus’s early play ‘Caligula’ had an over-arching and terrible significance.

Greece's once-thriving sex industry has become the latest victim of the country's debt crisis as Greeks spend less on erotic toys, pornography and titillating underwear.

Porn that’s good to us, enhancing rather than degrading, by definition ceases to be porn

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Alain de Botton has addressed love, happiness and religion. Now he wants to investigate pornography in the belief it can be turned into a moral and noble industry.

Yesterday David Cameron called for renewed consultation on default blocking of internet porn.

A lap dancer has won the right to be considered an employee in a decision that could affect thousands of performers in the industry.

No ambition, lots of parties and a much photographed bottom. That's Pippa Middleton

As vacancies dry up, 20 apply for each job

The Scottish author – and the young writers he influenced – assess the legacy of his debut

A landowner has offended villagers by launching a clean-up campaign with posters reading "Don't be a tosser! Take your litter home".

You can tell a lot about a culture from the way that it treats sex. The orgy-tastic ancients, for example; the uptight Victorians; all the jolly bra-less bouncing of the Seventies in those bleak suburban front rooms; the hedonistic, self-obsessed drugs and mirrors of the Eighties.

Personal details of hundreds of thousands of internet porn users have been compromised in a hacking attack organised by a Moroccan teenager.