The Verge Archives - Sex - Page 2

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.

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

Nov 7, 2017|

Nude is a next-generation photo vault that uses AI to hide your sensitive photos

Oct 17, 2017|

Pornhub is using machine learning to automatically tag its 5 million videos

Oct 11, 2017|

Ted Cruz has been reported to Twitter for liking porn

Sep 12, 2017|

The immense power of Tacoma’s little sex toy

Megan Farokhmanesh

Aug 9, 2017|

PornHub now has videos that synchronize with connected sex toys

Jun 28, 2017|

This is Not Porn has been digging up rare celebrity photos and debunking fakes for seven years

Kaitlyn Tiffany

Jun 6, 2017|

How did American Gods pull off its shocking sex scene? With a lot of clever positioning

Megan Farokhmanesh

May 1, 2017|

Pornhub now turns on encryption by default

Mar 30, 2017|

Fleshlight wants you to have sex with this massive contraption

Mar 14, 2017|

Maker of connected vibrator agrees to destroy sensitive user data

Mar 14, 2017|

People are having less sex — maybe because of all our screen time

Alessandra Potenza

Mar 11, 2017|

Most dancing is sexy — as long as you bother to get on the floor

Alessandra Potenza

Feb 26, 2017|

French minors will soon be able to watch real sex scenes in cinemas

Jan 19, 2017|

Iran’s porn censorship broke browsers as far away as Hong Kong

Russell Brandom

Jan 7, 2017|

Rogue lawyers made $6 million shaking down porn pirates, Feds say

Russell Brandom

Dec 16, 2016|

Humans no longer have a penis bone because we don’t need to have as much sex

Dec 14, 2016|

The CNN porn scare is how fake news spreads

Nov 25, 2016|

One man wants to turn every porn watcher in California into a condom vigilante

Nov 7, 2016|

How would sex work in space?

Oct 1, 2016|

iOS 10 is surfacing hardcore porn GIFs in iMessage

Jacob Kastrenakes

Sep 15, 2016|

Apple bans ‘butt’ search in iMessage after My Little Pony porn shows up

Jacob Kastrenakes

Sep 15, 2016|

How one for-pay porn site is surviving in 2016

Aug 2, 2016|

Why don't men have good sex toys?

Jun 15, 2016|

Bumble publicly shames and bans guy who sent nasty messages

Jacob Kastrenakes

Jun 8, 2016|

Will the Hamilton porn parody also win a Pulitzer Prize?

Kaitlyn Tiffany

Jun 7, 2016|

The Sex Factor is a porn reality show straight out of the early 2000s

May 19, 2016|

Don't lie about your porn habits, especially while running for office

May 17, 2016|

YACHT's sex tape hoax underestimated the empathy of the internet

May 10, 2016|

Wait, just how many types of orgasms are there?

Charlotte Shane

May 10, 2016|

Utah declares porn a public health crisis, hazard, and epidemic

Apr 20, 2016|

Risk-taking genes may influence when you first have sex

Alessandra Potenza

Apr 18, 2016|

Porn site xHamster blocks North Carolina users to protest anti-LGBT law

Apr 11, 2016|

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?

Mar 28, 2016|

Pornhub launches a new channel devoted to VR porn

Mar 23, 2016|

Ask Stoya: what is it like to be sexually aroused?

Mar 19, 2016|

This gadget simulates oral sex with suction

Jan 7, 2016|

Revenge porn website operator Hunter Moore sentenced to 30 months in prison

Dec 3, 2015|

These are the very best vagina emoji for sexting

Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Oct 9, 2015|

Ask Stoya: How do male porn stars have so much sexual stamina?

Sep 26, 2015|

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