This Is the Way the World Ends
Sex is declining because the options seem endless. This is counter-intuitive, but biologically it makes sense.
Robert King
· 17 min read
Sex
A collection of 146 posts
The ‘Sex Recession’ is Real
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of ‘Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,’ about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent scourge of 'phubbing.'
Strange Delight
Radley Metzger’s 1975 hardcore adaptation of a celebrated literary hoax is a vast improvement on the cynical source material.
Marilyn Simon
· 15 min read
What Is the Evolutionary Purpose of Female Orgasm? with Robert King | Quillette Cetera Ep. 56
Evolutionary psychologist Robert King joins Quillette to discuss the science of female orgasm, human sexual behaviour, and insights from his book Naturally Selective.
Zoe Sankey, Robert King
· 28 min read
Theatre of Blood
Seduction and submission in the work of the Marquis de Sade.
Yuki Zeman
· 19 min read
The Problem with Polygyny
Society should favour the tried-and-true norm of monogamous marriage, which is the most fecund arrangement, most likely to produce children in the kind and quantity we need.
Lyman Stone
· 9 min read
Scandalous Monogamy and Faithful Infidelity
On eros and marriage.
Marilyn Simon
· 13 min read
Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary
Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.
Richard Dawkins
· 12 min read
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
· 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
· 25 min read
Against Polyamory
Despite its sex-positive presentation, it is contrary, and perhaps even hostile, to the spirit of Eros.
David Polansky
· 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
· 7 min read
Oppressed or Oppressor? Quillette Cetera Episode 16
Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith
Zoe Sankey, Holly Lawford-Smith
· 1 min read
Marching Backwards
Mary Harrington’s proposed solution to the excesses of modern feminism is an overcorrection.
Marilyn Simon
· 15 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
· 7 min read