I fancy my neighbour's 17-year-old son. Actually I don't just fancy him—I positively lust after him. But I'm not so deluded that I imagine he feels the same way

Fawning and voyeuristic, David Thomson's paean to his screen idol fails to excite the co-author of the "Eyes Wide Shut" screenplay

Since winning the Turner prize in 2003 for his illustrated pottery, the transvestite Perry has become a pantomime figure of the British art scene. Is this just celebrity transgression, or something more?

Thailand generates fantasies, both for tourists in search of sex and for aid workers peddling lurid tales of trafficking. The tsunami created more false horror stories. What are the facts of the trade?

The world's first pro-life city

Under Islam, a woman can get married for an hour. The "sigheh" is a shi'a solution to a physical need. In Iran, it is an anomaly - a sexual freedom sanctioned by religion but taboo in society

If Labour returns Richard Desmond's money it will be the right deed for the wrong reason. Pornography brings order to nature

Alice Munro's perfectly pitched stories about intimacy and sex are more than a match for most novels

Standing by while my partner performed in the explicit film, Intimacy, I experienced a strange kind of controlled jealousy. I was her voyeur

Albania is the central source of female cargo for Europe's brutal prostitution trade

Neither great, nor original - Barbara Cartland, still the queen of romantic fiction

The philosopher of animal liberation considers a remarkable book which chronicles the history of bestiality