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Close up of mosquito biting a person's skin

Mosquitos seem to like beer drinkers who recently had sex

Black tarantula with pixelated rectangle over back thorax

These tarantulas’ genitals are so long, it required a new genus

Roman tile art depicting two lovers with woman's backside blurred

Stolen during WWII, an erotic Roman mosaic returns home

a clear marine worm with many appendages branching out of its torso and some dots of colors

Sea worm’s reproductive bits grow their own eyes before mating

By Laura Baisas

Blue-lined octopus in aquarium tank

Male octopus poisons its mate to avoid becoming post-sex snack

a small brown fish swimming in a tank

These fish can mate 19 times per day

By Laura Baisas

Ask Us Anything

Do aphrodisiacs work? What the science says.

By RJ Mackenzie

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Please think twice before letting AI scan your penis for STIs

Female hand with mobile phone on blurred night lights background

‘Cyberflasher’ sent to prison for the first time in England

Luxury car interior

Your car could be capturing data on your sex life

Doxycycline antibiotic pill for STI and STD prevention on a coral background

This ‘morning after’ pill could prevent STIs from unprotected sex

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Person making online purchase.

Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases

By Simon Fondrie-Teitler/The Markup, Darius Tahir / KFF Health News

Four male common fruit flies in a chain trying to mate with each other after being exposed to ozone air pollution

Horny male fruit flies plunge into chaos when exposed to air pollution

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

three MysteryVibe products

These sex toys are designed to heal, one orgasm at a time

By Charlie Surbey, Sandra Gutierrez G.

Viagra blue pills next to a felt red heart to show cardiac health benefits from erectile dysfunction drugs

Viagra shows promise in extending men’s lives, among other areas

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Two T. rex dinosaurs cuddling in bed after sex. Illustration in pink, purple, and gray.

Scientists are still banging out theories about how dinosaurs had sex

Purple sea urchins underwater releasing eggs and sperms during the mating process

Sea urchin sperm is surprisingly useful to robotics experts

By Lauren J. Young

Are at-home STD tests reliable?

Are at-home STD tests reliable?

By Liz Szabo / KHN

Juicy peach with slit to represent vabbing on an orange background

Does ‘vabbing’ work? The truth about vaginal pheromones.

By Lyric Aquino

A microscope image of monkeypox virus particles, which are oval with a fringed outer ring.

Monkeypox isn’t an STI. So why are health officials focused on sex?

By Philip Kiefer