If Tamba Yasuyori , a 10th-century Japanese court physician, could see modern Pornhub habits and how much we nut in a week, he’d probably faint. His vision of sex and health is still sitting in Tokyo’s imperial archives, in the Ishinhō , a 30-scroll medical compendium he finished in 984. Scroll 28 is basically a manual on longevity through sex. It talks about jingqi , a vital life force, and tells men to cultivate it through long, gentle lovemaking… while only ejaculating three times out of...

Choking during sex used to sound like something you would only see in niche porn. Now it is in hookup stories, group chats, and memes, something many of us have tried at least once, on the giving side or the receiving side. On one big United States campus, a random survey of almost five thousand students found that 58 percent of women had been choked during sex at least once, and a lot of men had either been choked or done the choking. So choking is not a weird outlier anymore. It is part of...

Plenty of guys can get it up for bad sizing. Not in the fun way, more like a quiet, stubborn denial that the condom aisle might actually be a math problem. They’ll argue about girth on Reddit, measure in secret, but still swear they’re a Magnum guy because that’s the story they’d rather tell themselves. Meanwhile, the numbers don’t lie. Studies from the CDC  and PubMed  show most condoms are longer and tighter than the average penis. Which means plenty of guys are walking around with latex...