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New York's Times Square was home to a number of these adult movie theaters, many of which were closed during the AIDs epidemic.
film

The Little Death of the Adult Movie Theater

The final erotic cinema in Paris is closing its doors after over 40 years.
Natasha Frost December 4, 2017
A male dolphin balances a marine sponge on his rostrum.
science

The Secret to Dolphin Seduction Is the Gift of a Large Marine Sponge

Update your holiday wishlist accordingly.
Natasha Frost November 21, 2017
Erotic art at Candi Sukuh.
Ngargoyoso, Indonesia

Candi Sukuh

This Javanese-Hindu temple from the 15th century is unmissable for anyone with even a passing interest in erotic art.
Berthe, later Berthold, Buttgereit's travel pass makes no mention of tranvestitism. But "B.B. is not forbidden to wear man’s clothes" was written on the back.
nazis

The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment

The radical days of the Weimar Republic, just before the rise of Nazism.
Natasha Frost November 2, 2017
The cover of the paper boasted features on dating, celebrities, and sex.
sex

The Dramatically Different World of '70s Dating Ads

Before Tinder, there was "Singles News."
Natasha Frost October 27, 2017
Lugworms can measure up to nine inches in length in the United Kingdom, while their American cousins are sometimes as much as 13 inches long.
science

Would You Kindly Spy on the Sex Life of the Humble Lugworm?

British researchers need more information about what gets this marine worm in the mood.
Natasha Frost October 23, 2017
Dolphins mating.
science

How a Female Dolphin May Use Her Vagina to Choose the Father of Her Calf

Inside the weird world of cetacean sex.
Natasha Frost October 12, 2017
The statue.
District of Columbia

The Winfield Scott Memorial

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.
Echidnas are out there, looking for love.
animals

Warm Your Heart With Videos of 'Echidna Love Trains'

For the enigmatic mammal, mating season is trailing season.
Eric Grundhauser September 1, 2017
"Sexploitation" films were mostly made between the 1950s and 1970s.
film

The Devilish Sexploitation Films That Combined Satan and Sensuality

Who needs a coherent plot when you have nudity and pitchforks?
Natalie Zarrelli July 28, 2017
The Erotic Heritage Museum, Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, Nevada

Erotic Heritage Museum

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.
The entrance to the museum.
Kharkiv, Ukraine

Museum of Sexual Cultures of the World

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.
prostitution

The Wartime Posters That Tried to Shame Soldiers Away From STDs

“You can’t beat the Axis if you get VD.”
Kelsey Kennedy July 12, 2017
A 16th-century German woodcut depicting the uselessness of chastity belts. (They can have more than one key.)
medieval

Everything You've Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie

Including their very existence.
Sarah Laskow July 12, 2017
Studies of the fetus in the womb, by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1510-13.
science

Why It Took Scientists So Long to Figure Out Where Babies Come From

Human conception was still basically a total mystery until as recently as 1875.
Edward Dolnick July 11, 2017
Permanently Closed
Gyeongju, South Korea

Love Castle

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.
"Dynamite Dykes of Pike Street"
sex

How the Leatherdykes Helped Change Feminism

A brief history of lesbian sadomasochism, from the shadows to the front lines of the “Sex Wars.”
Samir S. Patel May 1, 2017
An illustration of pink canna from the early 1920s.
anatomy museums

The World Needs a Vagina Museum

One woman in London is dedicated to starting the world's first physical space wholly dedicated to vaginas.
Sarah Laskow April 28, 2017