Consummation

Judging by the booming numbers attending parties such as tonight's - Killing Kittens alone boasts 6,500 members, 70 per cent of whom are women - we are witnessing something of a sexual revolution, or at the very least, a new age of female sexual assertiveness.

Consummation: A very peculiar practice

The act of sex is as likely to be ridiculous as sublime. Hannah Betts considers the paradox of consummation
From The Independent's guide to Love and Sex, free glossy mag tomorrow with the print edition

Inside Consummation

Why women need a drink before sex

Thursday, 24 September 2009

Liz Hoggard: One in 20 admit never having sex without alcohol as they lack body confidence

Why women go off sex and other bedroom battles

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

When Bettina Arndt asked 98 ordinary couples to keep a sex diary, says Joy Orpen, the sex therapist discovered a world full of despairing men and utterly indifferent women

Why less attractive men can become better lovers

Friday, 10 July 2009

Casanovas who are lucky in love may not — in one sense at least — be the biggest shots in the bedroom, a new theory suggests.

'Daily sex for week boosts conception chance'

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Daily sex keeps a man's sperm spry and is recommended for couples wanting a baby, research has shown.

Female ejaculation: Does it exist?

Friday, 29 May 2009

Our sex columnist Catherine Townsend looks at the debate

Belfast scientists develop ‘sex spray’

Wednesday, 8 April 2009

A new spray to help men with premature ejaculation problems has been developed by scientists at a Belfast hospital.

Anna Richardson: Talking straight about sex

Tuesday, 23 September 2008

The show's frank content has caused outrage. But it's all for our own good, the presenter of C4's Sex Education tells Esther Walker

The facts of life: consummation

Monday, 15 September 2008

You can tell if a woman is having good sex by the way she walks. Scientists had a success rate of over 80 per cent in identifying women who normally have orgasms and those who don't, by observing them walk for a few hundred metres. Those who are more satisfied have a more "free and sensual" gait.

No sex, please, we're French

Monday, 15 September 2008

It used to be the British who were considered the world's dunces of sex. Now everyone is picking up our bad habits. John Lichfield, Paris correspondent, reports on the globalisation of sexual ineptitude