You have a hot date lined up, but you’re a little nervous. You know your favorite date spot will be a hit, and you’re always charming. But you’re worried about having great sex. We’ve all been there.

After 15 years teaching a class about sex, the most popular course at the University of Washington, this professor shares her most important takeaways. Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times ...

“Vacation” and “sex” were once my two favorite words. Put them together and you’ve got the mecca of pleasure: a romp in Egyptian cotton sheets followed by a juicy room service cheeseburger. Can you ...

Children of the '90s have three core fears: quicksand, getting stuffed into a locker, and having sex with a close friend. Our elders in film and TV warned of these canonically agonizing ways to die, ...

There’s a common assumption that great, adventurous sex is a young person’s game—and with age, it fades into something boring, nonexistent, or just…not worth the effort. Growing up, Karen Bigman fell ...

How often couples have sex is usually once a week or less, according to a 2021 study of penile-vaginal sex. Yet the varied ...

Source: PhotoAlto, Frederic Cirou / Getty Say you are interested in someone—like quite interested. How long should you wait to have sex with that person? Three months? Three weeks? Three dates? Three ...

In 1978, Greta Hibbard was twenty-two and living in rural Oregon. She had a two-year-old daughter, a minimum-wage job, and an unemployed husband. She was, she would later say, “living on peanut butter ...