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Research

Synergy Explorers

September 8, 2023

“Karezza” and the Sexual Reform Movement (Heinz Schott)

Synergy Explorers How much sex

May 28, 2023

What’s the ideal amount of sex?

GQ

May 14, 2023

GQ surveys today’s relationship chaos

sex positivity

December 8, 2022

Has ‘sex positivity’ fulfilled its promise?

Synergy Explorers

November 23, 2022

Hormones and postcoital dysphoria (EL PAÍS)

sex is important

November 1, 2022

What’s so important about sex?

August 27, 2022

Sexual relationships, empathy and porn

sexual frequency

May 29, 2022

Why are sexual frequency and desire dropping?

Nobody's having sex

February 14, 2022

And just like that, nobody’s having sex any more – but why?

post-coital

October 20, 2021

That post-coital feeling: we investigate the way women feel right after they’ve had sex (Stylist)

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