Advice is given to a mother (29 Jan 2012)

Last week, the Los Angeles City Council approved a city ordinance that requires the use of condoms on adult movie sets. How will the new law affect porn's bottom line? [more] (29 Jan 2012)

Cheryl Greene has devoted the last 40 years of her life to helping others overcome sexual discomfort and dysfunction through her work as a sex surrogate (29 Jan 2012)

The population of Japan is in decline, the birthrate is plummeting, and the consequences look grim. Some studies put the blame on Japanese men who's appetite for masturbation, sex toys and virtual tete-a-tetes are turning them off the real thing. The future, one might say, is in their hands. - William Sparrow

The police ministry wants to criminalise the sex industry, while experts insist the root cause is poverty. As the Tajik interior ministry announces tougher penalties for prostitution, analysts say the local sex industry is a product of poverty and social dislocation and will not be easy to eradicate. Interior Minister Mahmadnazar Salihov said his staff were drafting a special bill that would soon be sent to parliament.

Japanese police have arrested five porn movie producers and a member of an industry self-censorship group on charges their films were too graphic, police said Monday.

"The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir," Toni Bentley's story of how she reclaimed her sexual fulfillment, has turned into a one-woman play at one of Madrid's most successful alternative theaters.

What They Were Thinking interview with Ronan, a 14-year-old transvestite student from Montreal, Canada, who comments on a photograph taken of him putting on makeup in the bathroom at his school. Photo

Some health organizations and school districts are developing Web sites and text services to reach teenagers.