What Happened to Kate Lanphear's Maxim?

Kate Lanphear had been editor-in-chief of Maxim magazine for only a few weeks in the waning months of 2014, when the discussion finally, and inevitably, turned to sex. There had already been a long string of meetings addressing features, fashion, humor, grooming, celebrities, food, and anything else you might expect…
This Father's Day, Remind Your Partner Where the Baby Came From
It has been about three years since I stopped working in men’s lifestyle media, but during the two weeks leading up to Father’s Day, I still get a lot of emails from PR people pitching “perfect gifts” for my old employer’s Father’s Day Gift Guide. Gifts for every “type” of dad: the sports-fan dad, the grill-obsessed…
Nick Jonas Is Good at Playing the Sex Talk Game
Nick Jonas is on a press tour for his third solo album, Last Year Was Complicated, and so far he’s been talking about sex through a lot of it (gay sex, kinky sex, accidental boners), because he’s older now and no longer a third of a Jonas Brother, nor a virgin, and therefore he’s been having some sex.
What Is the Use of Addressing a Headline to Men?
For your consideration, from the last week: the Washington Post’s “A shocking number of college men surveyed admit coercing a partner into sex,” and the Wall Street Journal’s “Women are more interested in sex than you think, studies show.” Why were these headlines—and the articles that followed—addressed to men?
You Might Be Able to Contract Zika From Oral Sex
In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of French scientists described the case of a 24-year-old woman who had contracted Zika via oral sex. The scientists suggested that the case is strong evidence that Zika might be more easily transmitted through bodily fluids—including perhaps saliva from…
Safe Sex or No Sex at All For 8 Weeks After Visiting a Zika-Infected Region, Says WHO
If you plan on visiting a Zika-infected region in the near future, the World Health Organization now recommends that you follow safe sex practices or remain abstinent for at least eight weeks after you return. The organization previously recommended a four-week period, but scientists now believe the virus lasts longer…
The Goopiest Advice From Goop's First-Ever Sex Issue
Last week, I tried to imagine what sort of advice Goop, health bible for Gwyneth stans, might promote in its first-ever sex issue. It finally came out on Monday, and I think that I was impressively close.
Inside the 19th-Century Free Love Commune Powered by Electric Sex, Eugenics and Delusions of Immortality

John Humphrey Noyes so fervently believed sleeping around could lead to immortality that he convinced 300 people to join him in a utopian socialist community built on that very principle, in upstate New York. As he saw it, promiscuous “interlocked contact” between men and women—in the form of a polyamory scheme he…
Here's the Documentary About Malcolm Brenner, Man Famous for Having Sex With a Dolphin

Well, it’s April 14, and you know what that means: banks are closed and parade routes are being blocked off across America in honor of National Dolphin Day, a holiday that was of course dreamed up by Big Dolphin but a great opportunity to spend some time thinking about Malcolm Brenner nonetheless. Who’s Malcolm…
Oversharing at Work
The only things I have done tonight are masturbate and scroll through Cardi B’s Instagram until my wrist hurt. I am wearing a promotional Sopranos T-shirt that reads, “I WANNA MADE MAN” [sic], but what I really want is to have a drink.
Finally: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Gives You a Celebratory Song for Your Sex-Related UTI
For its entire first season, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has been tackling the topics near and dear to a woman’s heart (sometimes literally) through song and Monday night’s episode—with its ode to UTIs as a result of sex—was no different.
Voyeurism Is Not Research

In an extraordinary article entitled “The Voyeur’s Motel,” published in the April 11, 2016 issue of The New Yorker, Gay Talese told the story of how he became involved with a serial voyeur named Gerald Foos. Foos, in the late 1960s, had purchased the 21-room Manor House Motel in Aurora, Colorado with the express…
Jane the Virgin Will Soon Be Jane the Sex-Haver
During an Emmy panel hosted by Deadline, Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez and showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman discussed what will happen once Jane Villanueva finally tosses out that crumpled white flower that Abuela Alba gave her and gets down and dirty with one of her many suitors.
How One University Is Punishing Its Students for Writing About Sex
On February 10, The Pauw Wow published a sex and love-themed issue. The student newspaper at Saint Peter’s University, a Jesuit school in Jersey City, wasn’t particularly known for pushing the limits—it wasn’t known for much of anything, really, according to several of its staffers—but this relatively daring issue…
