A new book by the historian Melvin Patrick Ely draws on court records to highlight the complex relationships between enslavers and the enslaved. By Kate Masur Kate Masur’s most recent book, written ...

Justin Garcia is a sex researcher visited a brothel in Nevada as part of his work. Browsing the menu of available sex acts, the most expensive one caught his eye. It was called the White Whale, or the ...

A study by the University of New Hampshire challenges common assumptions about aging and intimacy, revealing that many single adults aged 60 to 83 continue to prioritize sexual activity in their ...

It began with a few dozen boxes left behind after the death of her father. DOROTHY ROBERTS: I confronted them because they'd been in my basement for a decade already, and so I wanted to see what was ...

When my father died, I inherited hundreds of transcripts from interviews he conducted with interracial couples in Chicago. He began his project in 1937, as a 21-year-old graduate student, and ...

In a new memoir, author Dorothy Roberts explores why interracial attraction can’t be disentangled from the larger forces of race, gender, and power that govern our world. The acclaimed author can’t ...

In his book The Intimate Animal, sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need for human intimacy, which is the real issue at the root of the loneliness ...