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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.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 11

Neon’s Sanctuary is coming to test your limits.

Film Twitter™ loves to work itself into a frenzy over Hollywood’s aversion to making movies featuring characters who enjoy having sex, which makes it seem like Neon’s upcoming thriller Sanctuary is going to make quite a splash when its first trailer arrives tomorrow.

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LoveSync was meant for couples struggling in the bedroom — instead its crowdfunding campaign became a viral joke

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The Creators Issue

Porn companies are embracing crowdfunding

Apr 3, 2019|

Tumblr’s adult content ban means the death of unique blogs that explore sexuality

Dec 6, 2018|

How Tumblr went from being the most porn-friendly social media site to banning porn

Dec 5, 2018|

#ThotAudit is just the latest tactic people are using to harass sex workers online

Nov 30, 2018|

What if porn, but for women

Sep 18, 2018|

‘Female Viagra’ is back and easily available online — which means it could be more harmful than ever

Jun 13, 2018|

Steam’s capricious pornography rules hurt small game creators the most

Jun 1, 2018|

YouTubers are hiding softcore porn behind fake diamond ads

Megan Farokhmanesh

May 23, 2018|

Anti-sex trafficking law FOSTA is hurting online sex educators, too

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May 16, 2018|

Dutch police have shut down Anon-IB in the course of a revenge porn investigation

Apr 29, 2018|

Facebook sure has been thinking a lot about nipples

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Apr 24, 2018|

Hollywood wants to rid the web of celebrity deepfakes

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Apr 19, 2018|

Switter, one of the last online spaces friendly to sex workers, was just banned by its network

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Apr 19, 2018|

Amid FOSTA crackdown, sex workers find refuge on Mastodon

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Apr 11, 2018|

How Silicon Valley’s feature creep is ruining sex toys

Mar 27, 2018|

PlayStation won’t publish pickup artist game Super Seducer

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Mar 7, 2018|

Super Seducer is the last game we need in the #MeToo era

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Mar 5, 2018|

Online dating isn’t easy — especially when you’re asexual

Feb 14, 2018|

What remains of Chatroulette: it’s gone to the do(n)gs

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Feb 14, 2018|

From Ice Age dildos to VR, an academic explains the history and future of sex toys

Feb 14, 2018|

Deepfakes are disappearing from parts of the web, but they’re not going away

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Feb 9, 2018|

Reddit bans ‘deepfakes’ AI porn communities

Feb 7, 2018|

Pornhub is the latest platform to ban AI-generated ‘deepfakes’ porn

Feb 6, 2018|

Gfycat starts removing fake AI porn GIFs from its platform

Jan 31, 2018|

Is it legal to swap someone’s face into porn without consent?

Megan Farokhmanesh

Jan 30, 2018|

The people making fake AI porn have been temporarily distracted by Nicolas Cage

Jan 29, 2018|

Discord shut down a chat group that shared fake celebrity porn edited with artificial intelligence

Jan 28, 2018|

Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence

Jan 24, 2018|

Adult cam site CamSoda will offer ‘virtual intercourse with real people’ using sex dolls and VR

Jan 24, 2018|

Discord has a new problem: revenge porn

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Jan 17, 2018|

Google deleted 60 games from its Play Store after pornographic ads were found

Jan 12, 2018|

People are more interested in sex around Christmas — and there’s a baby boom nine months later

Dec 24, 2017|

Let’s all play the game about ‘90s internet porn that got banned on Steam

Dec 18, 2017|

AI tools will make it easy to create fake porn of just about anybody

Dec 12, 2017|

Sex toy company admits to recording users' remote sex sessions, calls it a 'minor bug'

Nov 10, 2017|

Facebook’s unorthodox new revenge porn defense is to upload nudes to Facebook

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