Art & PhotographyBruce LaBruce, production still(s) from The Visitor (2023)

Bruce LaBruce’s Pasolini-inspired new art film explores race and sex

The Visitor, LaBruce's pornification of a surreal 1960s cult film, was filmed in front of an audience watching sex unfold through peepholes

Art & Photography

May 09, 2023

Joe Bobowicz
FashionJoanna Angel, Asa Akira, Natassia Dreams at Pornhub awards

6 of the most explicit times porn and fashion came to climax

From Thierry Mugler and Hood By Air to Tom Ford and Bottega Veneta, here are the landmark moments in fashion history when the artful and the adult became bedfellows

Fashion

Apr 27, 2023

Daniel Rodgers
Life & CulturePolly Barton

What Polly Barton learned from 19 conversations about porn

In Porn: An Oral History, the writer inspires us to think differently about porn by having those difficult conversations we’re too afraid to start

Life & Culture

Mar 16, 2023

Elliot Hoste
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How Pornhub became the front line of the war on sex work

We speak to director Suzanne Hillinger and porn performer Cherie DeVille about the new Netflix documentary, Money Shot: A Pornhub Story

Life & Culture

Mar 15, 2023

Sian Bradley
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‘It’s all in your head’: why so many women are turning to audio erotica

Downloads of audio porn apps like Quinn and Dipsea are soaring – here’s why

Life & Culture

Mar 03, 2023

Vanese Maddix
Art & PhotographyLinder, “The Goddess Who has Five Faces” (2019)

These radical artworks play with the conventions of pornography

A shared exhibition brings together the work of Hannah Wilke and Linder – two provocative artists exploring the commodification of women’s bodies and consumer desire

Art & Photography

Feb 22, 2023

Rose Dodd
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Transphobia may be on the rise, but so is trans porn – what does it mean?

PornHub’s 2022 Year in Review report found that searches for trans porn are on the rise globally – despite trans rights being under threat in many countries

Life & Culture

Feb 21, 2023

Serena Smith
Art & PhotographyNordine Makhloufi paris queer nightlife party

No place like home: powerful portraits of queer communities in 2022

We take a look back at some of this year’s most celebratory and potent photo stories, sharing the stories of queer communities from all over the world

Art & Photography

Dec 29, 2022

Elliot Hoste
Art & PhotographyLina Scheynius, “Untitled” (2015)

Too hot to handle: the sexiest art and photography projects of 2022

Sex dolls, self-pleasure and sensuality: flick through some of the steamiest galleries of the year

Art & Photography

Dec 28, 2022

Thom Waite
Life & Culturedeepfake

Will the Online Safety Bill really stop deepfake porn?

The proposed legislation seeks to criminalise sharing non-consensual deepfake pornography – but campaigners aren’t celebrating just yet

Life & Culture

Dec 09, 2022

Brit Dawson
Art & PhotographyTom Selmon, Sensored 2.0 (2022)

Sensored magazine wants to expand your erotic horizons

The publication is ‘an ode to the beauty of the erotic’ and an antidote to the increasing censorship of social media

Art & Photography

Dec 07, 2022

Emily Dinsdale
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Tumblr is letting us be naked again

The microblogging platform has reversed its 2018 decision to censor all nudity on the app, although its infamous ban on porn remains in place

Life & Culture

Nov 02, 2022

Serena Smith
Film & TVKlappe public cruising Matt Lambert film

Matt Lambert’s new film celebrates the joy and awkwardness of gay sex

Matt Lambert’s Klappe takes us inside Berlin’s cruising scene – we talk to him, as well as the cast, about public sex, on-screen intimacy and how technology is changing the face of adult cinema

Film & TV

Oct 24, 2022

James Greig
FashionBoss Gives Employee Facial

This fashion porno imagines a dystopian WeWork of the future

Hawked alongside a collection of thongs at New York’s Café Forgot, Boss Gives Employee Facial is ‘a horny class critique’ where orgasms are harvested and sold

Fashion

Aug 23, 2022

Daniel Rodgers
Art & PhotographyHelias Doulis, A Faggot’s Destiny

Voyeuristic images of Athens’ ‘gay porn booths’

Photographer Helias Doulis explores the city’s remaining sex cinemas and porn booths – private spaces where strangers can still meet for illicit IRL encounters

Art & Photography

Jul 26, 2022

Emily Dinsdale