Anger over peer’s ‘sex and booze’ nurses slur

A Tory peer who branded nurses 'grubby, drunken and promiscuous' during a Lords debate faces a backlash

The sex drive

Our society's obsession with male sexual power is a compensatory potency, a displacement from our helplessness in many aspects of modern life

Let’s talk about sex

Young people can be responsible about sex, says Simon Blake

Don’t believe the contraception industry: sex education doesn’t work

Response: Teaching children that sex is separate from marriage has led to untold misery, says Norman Wells

Sex on wheels

Julie Fernandez, best known for her role in The Office, always dreamed of love and marriage. But she feared her brittle bones would prevent her from ever having a physical relationship ...

It can conjure up a mood for sex, and might just curb the need for drugs

Simon Jenkins: Therapy at Liverpool hospitals includes a joyous dose of birdsong. Better still, wards should be moved to the aviary.

Anti-natal

Zoe Williams: Pineapples, sex and curries are all supposed to bring on labour, but there is an even more desperate method.

Further rise in sex disease figures

Rates of sexually transmitted infections across the UK have risen for the tenth year running, according to research published today.

Women more stressed by insomnia

Sleepless nights leave many too tired for their work, friends or sex, says new research.