This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study explores the origins of sexual puritanism in the faith: why Jewish men can’t touch themselves even while urinating, how erections lead to idol worship, and how masturbation delays the arrival of the Messiah

Why are millennials so afraid to get it on? Sex, power, gender, and swiping right, in Kristen Roupenian’s first collection of short stories.

Sexual abstinence of married men roils the Hasidic sects of Gur, Slonim, and Toledot Aharon

Ancient Jewish texts contain a blueprint for dealing with the modern crisis around sexual violence and consent

Bookworm: Sex, barbiturates, and the internal lives of women, in a flawlessly crafted and perfectly unstylish seminal work of American culture

Campus Week: Good advice, bad advice, and other words to live by

The fast food chain is offering Israelis sex toys when they buy an ‘Adult Meal’ for Valentine’s Day. For Hanukkah, it was a burger-doughnut. It’s all good.

Herb Foster no longer works as an educator. So he teaches the Martha’s Vineyard elderly how to have better sex lives.

As a Jewish feminist, I recognize just how much I relate to—and appreciate—Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls,’ which enters its final season Sunday

Abbi and Ilana like you’ve never heard them before

Abbi and Ilana hit the club, hit the bottle, and get busy

Also in discussion during this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’: How long does the sex act take? As long as it takes to eat an egg, or to reach for a loaf of bread?

The cheating website’s founder Noel Biderman apparently had a horrible screenplay in the works

Teenagers need to learn about more than anatomy, as some Jewish educators already know

Luba Saraswati Evans-Zion blends Jewish mysticism with Tantric meditation to help people connect to their bodies