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- January 15, 2026
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Cataract Surgery for Better Sex

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A study of 66 Turkish women in their 40s and 50s published in BMC Public Health showed that cataract surgery led to a significant improvement in their sexual desire, lubrication, and self-reported satisfaction (up around 17%); arousal and ability to reach orgasm improved by about a third, and feelings of pain or discomfort during sex […]

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- January 1, 2026
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The Kink Community Responds to BDSM Depiction in Pillion

Credit: Alexandar Skarsgard and Harry Melling in Pillion (Picturehouse Entertainment)

The new film, Pillion, which Hard Copy reported on last June, is starting to receive positive reviews. The film tells the story of the relationship between Colin, a timid man, who is swept off his feet by Ray, an enigmatic and impossibly handsome biker. Ray, a dom, takes Colin on as his submissive. After opening […]

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- January 1, 2026
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2025 Year in Review and Trends for 2026

With the end of the year comes lists of trends from the past year and trends for the upcoming year. Grindr has provided an extensive overview of the trends and “best of” for 2025 in Grindr Unwrapped 2025. Favorite stats include most searched profile tag (“hung”), country sending most nudes (Finland), most proclaimed “daddies” (USA). […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Less Sex, More Divorce, and Other 2025 Intimacy Trends

Avi Wolfman-Arent and Cherri Gregg, hosts of Studio 2, a podcast on WHYY-FM out of Philadelphia, discuss sex and romance trends with guests: Debby, Lauren Harris, and Andrew Hatherley. In this episode they talk about the sex recession and why later-life divorce is trending upward. The sex recession is seeing less partnered sex and less […]

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- January 1, 2026
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AI Dating Café Opens in NYC

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EVA AI opens in New York City this month, a physical location with romantic lighting where lonely people can choose a table with an illuminated phone screen showing different AI companions with whom they can pretend to have a date. While this venue could help the socially awkward feel more comfortable being seen in a […]

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- December 15, 2025
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Highlights from Pornhub’s 2025 Report

Pornhub’s annual report yields valuable insight into evolving sexual interests of men and women (who are 38% of Pornhub’s audience), gay and straight, different generations, countries, and US states. Perhaps most remarkable is the rise in appreciation of mature women, now the third most viewed category by men; “MILF” is the second most searched term, […]

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- December 15, 2025
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Pencil Me the Fuck In!

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Is there a world in which scheduling sex is sexy? A new study by researchers from York University in Ontario, Canada has found that doing so can actually lead to more sex, as well as less obligatory sex, reducing sexual subjects’ overall relationship anxiety. The study consisted of more than 500 participants from Canada, the […]

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- December 15, 2025
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French Right Wants to Re-open Brothels

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Liberalized sex work proposals are often associated with the Left, but in France, it is the populist right-wing National Rally party that is pushing this reform, with support from former leader Marine LePen. The National Rally proposal is to make the brothels cooperatives run by the sex workers themselves: legislator Jean-Philippe Tanguy said, they “would […]

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- December 15, 2025
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Study: Women Over 60 Like Sex Toys

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Researchers affiliated with the Kinsey Institute have published a study of 3,001 women over the age of 60 in the journal Menopause, finding that a little less than half reported masturbating within the past year, and among those, 56.4% used sex toys, mostly vibrators or dildoes; 26.2% used them almost always or always. Sex toy […]

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- December 1, 2025
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Morning Sex Boosts Work Productivity

A survey of 1000 US workers showed that those who have sex before work in the morning report higher levels of productivity, task completion, focus, and motivation than those who do not. Half of them say they have received a raise in the last year, and 19% say they have received a promotion. This result […]

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