Study provides new insights into British people’s sex lives as they age Research suggests a sharper decrease in the number of women reporting recent sexual partners after 70 compared with men
Don’t feel pressured, learn to ‘simmer’ and keep experimenting: how to have great sex at every stage of life Expert tips on a fun, fulfilling sex life – for teenagers, octogenarians and anyone in between
The pill put condoms out of style – now fashion designers are reviving a flaccid market From Saint Laurent’s £5 specimen to a Diesel-Durex collab, spring/summer 2023 is the season of the aesthetically pleasing prophylactic
‘The sex ed class you wish you’d had’: the influencer doctors teaching Americans the basics With schools failing American students, OB-GYNs use TikTok to tackle questions and dispel myths
Inquisitive, beloved Canadian sex educator Sue Johanson dies aged 93 Johanson was venerated as a forthright educator who filled voids left by the absence of sex ed curricula at US and Canadian schools
‘Between pleasure and health’: how sex-tech firms are reinventing the vibrator A new wave of sex toys is designed to combine orgasmic joy with relief from dryness, tension and pain
Syphilis cases at highest level for 75 years in England last year Figures also show gonorrhoea diagnoses rose by 50% to 82,600 – the highest figure since records began in 1918
My cheating boyfriend told me he was a sex addict. Was it a disorder – or just an excuse? When I found out my partner had been lying for years, my whole world shattered. Did calling it an addiction mean I had to forgive him?
Dorothy Milne obituary Other lives: Family planning and sexual health doctor who co-founded the One25 charity
‘I miss the sex’: Why are the sexual needs of the bereaved still a taboo? A woman mourning the loss of her husband was advised to take up gardening, another was told to get a dog… But intimacy and desire among grieving people is something we all need to know about, writes Kat Lister