Just like humans, the animal kingdom is not only about procreation but recreation, including hetero- and homosexuality, monogamy and promiscuity, masturbation, arousal, love and aggression, intersex and transgender. ‘I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know — have sex with an aardvark. I would do it.’ Johnny Depp Some US zoos hold […]

Empire magazine’s survey compared the pool scene in Showgirls, intended as the ‘best sex scene in the world’, to ‘the first 10 minutes of Jaws’. Showgirls also made number two in Guardian Unlimited’s 2003 list, where ‘humping like dolphins’ was apparently not as bad as victor Matrix Reloaded’s seemingly impossible mission that’takes forever’. Top 10 […]

In Woody Allen’s 1973 film Sleeper, the orgasmatron, elevator-cum-vibrator technology, provides an otherwise incapable future population withorgasms. * Orry-Kelly’s eternally astounding near-transparent creationworn by Marilyn Monroe in the last act of Some Like It Hot won the BestCostume Design Oscar. ¥ In 9Vi Weeks, the fridge provides one of thegreatest cinematic examples of the relationship […]

CHANNEL 4’S SEXIEST MOMENT Dr No (1962) In 2003, the UK channel viewers’ poll named the scene that inspired the massive popularity of the bikini and secured the success of the most famous and sexiest spy in the world: Ursula Andress surfacing from the sea as Honey Ryder made quite an impression on Sean Connery’s […]

‘Sex is an emotion in motion.’ Mae West Sex in the movies has been around since pictures first moved. Through censorship and revolution, it has always managed to find its way on to the screen via audience imagination, metaphor, nudity and sound effects — sometimes it’s even been the real thing. And that’s not including […]

In 1984, the repeal of the law that banned advertising from phone boxes led to their use by prostitutes to publicize their services. An estimated 13 million cards are placed in London’s 700 phone boxes every year, from some 250 prostitutes. UK telecoms company ВТ claims it removes about 150,000 cards every week. WORLD OF […]

Founded by painter Bob Guccione, this is the middle mag between the prettier Playboy and the lewder Hustler. Over time, it has changed its style from soft focus close-ups of the female anatomy plus touches of activity to explicit pictures of penetration, then moved on to a more sophisticated approach with fashion photographers and political […]

Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) caused a sensation in Italy with his bold satirical book Sixteen Postures describing sexual positions. It was wildly erotic for the time and, with illustrations to match the lusty content by Giuliano Romano, it sealed Aretino’s reputation as the smuttiest, most outrageously witty writer the Renaissance had seen. Casanova wrote in his […]

Prostitution may have originated as a respectable and spiritual transaction between priestesses and priests in Babylonian temples. It was designed to bring them closer to God, with no money changing hands. The first brothels were probably in Egypt, but they evidently became popular in ancient Greece, where prostitutes, mostly women and teenage boys, were obliged […]

Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;Thou hotly lust’st to use her in that kindTor which thou whipp’st her.’ Shakespeare, King Lear, 1605 [5W7 It’s a job and someone has always done it. Yet prostitution remains one of the most stigmatized professions, despite Щ, its continuing ability to drum up custom. Facts […]