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December 24, 2011 at 3:00 AM

Sex, Drugs, and DSK: The Year in Sex

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Take a look back at what we talked about when we talked about sex in 2011, from the new STD scare to the future of casual hookups.

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True love waits... for revolting public kissing. The late-blooming adult stars of TLC's The Virgin Diaries aside, American

Tap that app. This year, tech entrepreneurs reversed the stigma against gay sex—they asked hetero singles to copulate more like the M4M set. Of course, they can't just come out and say that. Grindr, a massively popu

The new porn mashup. It's a well-worn cliche that women don't experience sex visually. What, then, to make of the popularity of James Deen, a boyish porn star with

The generation-defining STD. As AIDS marked its 30th anniversary this year, political attention focused on a

Understanding sexual harassment. Herman Cain's brief, strange bid for the American presidency rekindled a national debate over workplace sexual harassment—namely,

Rethinking rape. In 2011, a very powerful man faced rape charges on the international stage—just as a very powerful man did

Zygotes are people too. This year, the state of Mississippi came awfully close to reclassifying fertilized eggs as people. Th