Sex - Quillette

A colourful male and dull female mandarin duck. Representing sexual dimorphism.

Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary

Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.

6 Sep 2024 · 12 min read

Crackhead Barney, Deborah de Robertis, and Ava Louise

The Perfect Trifecta

The new attention economy will always privilege the lowest common denominator in performance art, as it does in everything else.

Julia Friedman

4 Jun 2024 · 8 min read

Sex and Smashed Steel

A look back at J.G. Ballard's ‘Crash’—one of the the 20th century’s greatest and most disturbingly prophetic novels.

Benjamin Kerstein

2 Apr 2024 · 25 min read

Against Polyamory

Despite its sex-positive presentation, it is contrary, and perhaps even hostile, to the spirit of Eros.

David Polansky

25 Jan 2024 · 6 min read

The Sex of Skeletons

To suggest that a spirited discussion of the importance of sex and gender in archeology threatens “scientific integrity” is to misunderstand the nature of science.

Lawrence M. Krauss

11 Oct 2023 · 7 min read

Oppressed or Oppressor? Quillette Cetera Episode 16

Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith

Zoe Booth / Holly Lawford-Smith

7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read

Marching Backwards

Mary Harrington’s proposed solution to the excesses of modern feminism is an overcorrection.

Marilyn Simon

3 Mar 2023 · 14 min read

Rebalancing the Gender Narrative

Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.

Ari David Blaff

30 Dec 2022 · 7 min read

Infidelity Reconsidered

As a society, we should not presume to judge the relationships of others based on our own moral code.

Limor Gottlieb

6 Oct 2022 · 7 min read

Tinder and Toxicity

Why Lonely Single Men Should Delete Dating Apps.

Domanic Towers

25 Aug 2022 · 7 min read

Children of the Counter-Revolution

Sexual liberty reconsidered.

Cathy Young

8 Jul 2022 · 16 min read

What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction?

Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.

Robert King

9 May 2022 · 10 min read

Diamonds Aren't Forever (And Neither is Your Love)

Diamond is the most valuable, not only of precious stones, but of all things in this world. ~Pliny The Elder Loving someone, and having them love you back, is the most precious thing in the world. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook At age 11, I first glimpsed the bewildering anthropologic spectacle