What does the average porn performer really look like and do on film? In the first porn study of its kind, I analyzed a data set of 10,000 porn stars to put our perceptions of X-rated media to the test.

I was given unprecedented access to one million sex toy sales by Britain’s number one adult retailer to find out what turns on and gets off 250,000 men and women.

Is online dating a different experience for men than it is for women? I conducted a four-month experiment in the US and UK using ten dummy dating profiles.

Roughly once every 22 days, a convicted killer is executed in Texas. He cannot choose his final meal, but he can choose his last words.

I surveyed dozens of escorts and the adverts of over a thousand more to find out what it’s really like to be a call girl. The truth is a blend of the bizarre and the mundane.

I analyzed a million words extracted from 5,000 reviews of UK escorts to find out how men who pay for sex speak – and perhaps think – about sex workers.

Compliments are swapped millions of times a day, but some are better than others. With insights from psycholinguistics, I dissect the anatomy of a compliment.

When you change something about your appearance, is the sudden feeling of being socially conspicuous warranted or is it just a trick of the mind?

The eight stages of heartbreak have a lot in common with a physical flesh wound. But as you’ll see, that doesn’t mean you can’t get through them.