Tag Archives: History

Artists have been communicating ideas around sex and love for centuries—we’re looking at you, you saucy ancient Greeks, randy Romans and erotic Egyptians!—but for significant chunks of history, ...

As the taboo of talking about sex diminishes year by year, sex literacy grow and grows. However, for every term like safe word, prostate massage or polyamory that ...

Throughout history, nearly every sexual act you can think of has moved from one side of the moral scale of acceptability to the other; at times there was ...

Masturbation Month is upon us once again,while acceptance and public discussion of the act continues to grow, there are still discovered many people are insecure about their techniques ...

The condom as we know it today, strictly regulated and uniformly packed in neat foil squares, may seem like a thoroughly modern invention, yet barrier methods have been ...

What a way to usher in Pride Month! In the same week, Greenland’s parliament passed marriage equality unopposed, and in a historic vote, Ireland (yes, very Catholic Ireland) ...

In The Divine Female: Part 1, we examined the archaeological evidence suggesting a wider-spread worship of a female-mother god dating back some 25,000 years. How then, in the ...

This is a Man’s World belted out James Brown in 1966. And maybe it was. But today, for all of our inconsistencies and discrepancies, increasingly, mutual respect, equal ...

Believe it or not, sex toys are as old as the Stone Age – literally. In fact, archaeologists recently uncovered an 8-inch siltstone phallus tucked away in an ...