From love at first sight and infidelity to hook-up culture and "slow love", explained in this thoroughly revised classic on the evolution and future of human sex, romance, and partnership. Examines marriage and divorce in 58 societies and adultery in 42 cultures, and argues that we are returning to patterns of business, sex, and love that echo our ancient past.

"Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book. Although it would be neither possible nor desirable to turn the clock back to a world of pre-60s sexual mores, she argues that the amoral libertinism and callous disenchantment...

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book." The man went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret, that he had bought a motel...

"Leila Slimani was in her native Morocco promoting her novel Adèle, about a woman addicted to sex, when she began meeting women who confided the dark secrets of their sexual lives. In Morocco, adultery, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, and sex outside of marriage are all punishable by law, and women have only two choices: They can be wives or virgins. Sex and Lies combines vivid, often harrowing testimonies with Slimani's passionate and intelligent...

This documentary-fiction film begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl's sexual liberation. Banned upon its release in the director's homeland, this art-house smash is both whimsical and bold in its blending of politics and sexuality.

"Valeria encuentra un sujetador que no es suyo en casa de Víctor Valeria se siente humillada, engañada, estúpida...Y de pronto conoce a Bruno, ¡peligro! Y mientras el mundo se pone patas arriba... Lola conoce a Rai en sus clases de chino. Carmen tiene problemas en la organización de su boda. Y Nerea se ha cansado de ser Nerea la Fría.--

A thirty-something sex columnist and her three single friends examine relationships and sexual roles in New York City.