A day at work can mean Skyping with a 36-year-old virgin who has problems getting an erection, or heading into a bedroom with a couple whose sex life is lukewarm.

This isn’t a sex party—no nudity and no sexual acts. But that doesn’t mean there’s no sexual charge in the room. Perhaps that’s why my palms are sweaty and I keep shuddering. What a prude.

Jane’s sex life fits with trends researchers have documented while studying the consequences of long-term unemployment.

Despite the rise in online shopping and the overall economic malaise, the sex-shop business has never been better.

“Come over to the back shed—I’ll show you where the magic happens,” Moats instructs. I’m led to a space the size of a single-car garage filled floor to ceiling with his collection of prototype masks, some 200 strong, as well as tools used to make them

Music nerds like to impress people with their vast knowledge of obscure sounds, but the art of makin’ love requires a distinctly randy soundtrack.

Because a truly lousy condom can ruin a perfectly lovely encounter.