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The pursuit of sex and erotica shapes — and is shaped by — technology in ways that influence our culture on and offline. Many technological advances originate in the sex industry, and can transform the way we find partners, experience pleasure, and examine our own sexuality. The Verge pursues stories that thoughtfully examine the relationship between tech and sex, without the pearl-clutching prudishness of your high school sex ed classes.

How would sex work in space?How would sex work in space?
Angela Chen
Why don’t men have good sex toys?Why don’t men have good sex toys?
Lux Alptraum
The Sex Factor is a porn reality show straight out of the early 2000s

The Sex Factor doesn’t want to be just porn: its own press release makes the grandiose claim that “it’s a mainstream pop-culture brand” and “premium reality entertainment watched together by couples, college kids, and good friends in a familiar social setting.”

Lux Alptraum
Jimmyjane took vibrators from sleazy to chic — now, can it take them mainstream?

Jimmyjane took vibrators from sleazy to chic — now, can it take them mainstream?

Lux Alptraum
These are the very best vagina emoji for sexting

‘There was a lot of Google image searching for many explicit terms’

Arielle Duhaime-Ross