Confessions
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
The critic as stalker
Fawning and voyeuristic, David Thomson's paean to his screen idol fails to excite the co-author of the "Eyes Wide Shut" screenplay
Grayson Perry
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?
Learning the Thai sex trade
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?
Letter from Manila
The world's first pro-life city
Marriage for a night
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
In praise of porn
If Labour returns Richard Desmond's money it will be the right deed for the wrong reason. Pornography brings order to nature
Disenchantment of desire
Alice Munro's perfectly pitched stories about intimacy and sex are more than a match for most novels
Watching her
Standing by while my partner performed in the explicit film, Intimacy, I experienced a strange kind of controlled jealousy. I was her voyeur
Female cargo
Albania is the central source of female cargo for Europe's brutal prostitution trade
Queen of romance
Neither great, nor original - Barbara Cartland, still the queen of romantic fiction
Heavy petting
The philosopher of animal liberation considers a remarkable book which chronicles the history of bestiality