Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either.
Joseph Fischer
If you are brave or adventurous, you probably will enjoy sites in this category. Note, however, that the material contained within is not appropriate for young people.
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/bierlein/noxxx/noxxx.html
A site to help men addicted to pornography. Provides a nonjudgmental, accepting, and supportive place for people struggling with pornography in all its various forms. Pornography is dealt with at the point that it becomes an addictive, unhealthy force.
http://www.commnet.edu/QVCTC/student/LindaCain/sexabuse.html#horror
One woman's labor of love—her compiled index of sites helpful to the families of victims.
http://www.iglou.com/first-principles/abstract.html
The online version of a study conducted from 1954–1984 concerning the view of children in mainstream adult magazines.
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bartley/saInfoPage.html
Offers a huge searchable index of informational pages ranging from acquaintance rape to women's resources. Learn about survivor's groups, conferences and other events, much more.
Discusses sexual abuse as the epidemic that it is. Offers an e-mail link to the Stop It Now organization.
http://www.teleport.com/~snapmail/index.html
Focuses on self-help and education. Gives links to related sites.
Comes across as a "Miss Manners" for these in need of matchmaking. Includes advice columns, lists of eligible individuals, and personal counseling for the clueless. Beautiful site layout, readable and enjoyable.
A real blind date e-mail style; men and women leave their information and then can browse through the bios on file and then send e-mail to the ones they find interesting. What happens from there is anyone's guess. Has a chat room and a "wall" for leaving e-mail comments for everyone to read.
This site for the intimacy-deprived focuses on helping people achieve spiritual maturity and emotional stability through seminars, classes, newsletters, books, and so forth. Helps individuals achieve harmony and unity in their lives by stressing a proper relationship with God and Christ, themselves, and then with other people.
http://www.calweb.com/~swifty/match.html
Works much like a traditional dating service. Fill out their questionnaire and they'll match you with others in your area. All initial contact is done via e-mail so that you can decide whether or not to meet face to face.
Dedicated to introducing Christian men and women. Unlike other Net dating services, this is more traditionally based—no e-mail introductions; you go to one of the offices, fill out a survey, and make a short video describing yourself and your beliefs.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cypselus/hryfrnds.htm
If you want to date the hairy out there, this is the site for you. The site provides both matchmaking and personal ad services.
http://www.zdepth.com/jsc/index.html
An attempt to help reconnect young, single Jews across the U.S. and the world to each other and re-create some of the community of yesteryear. Utilizes the Internet to help create a new community paradigm.
Leave your personal ad, list your preferences (and there are lots of alternative lifestyles), and wait to be contacted. Don't have an e-mail address you can give out? They'll rent you one. For the talkative, audio is available.
Join this Web matchmaking service or enter as a guest. Try a free ten-day membership and enter your personal profile. This site also includes the Matchbook online e-zine, with interviews of famous authors, member events, and a dating counselor. Thousands sign up every month to be included on match.com's roster. Now has a chat service.
http://www.levins.com/sexmachines.html
This book describes the patents for sexual devices placed with the U.S. Patent Office, from the 1840s to present day. The perfect gift for that sexy technophile on your shopping list. Available from Amazon Books on the Net.
An actual online magazine, it requires a fee to access the pages (except to the sample sections). Very hard-core, for all sexual persuasions.
http://www.circus.com/~omni/purity.html
The place to go to see how you compare to other World's Great Lovers. Answer 100 blue questions to see how you "rate."
http://www.bart.nl/~sante/aphrodis/aphrhome.htm
Advice on mixing and finding true love potion #9. Broken into categories, including food and drink, and plant preparations. Visitors in a hurry (which they likely will be) are directed to the pine nut recipes.
http://the.arc.co.uk/body/home.html
Charts men's reaction to the challenge of feminism and documents changes in the social construction of masculinity. Describes women's explorations of sexual desire and gratification through eroticizing of men's bodies. Analyses the sexual/political changes as they take place in the world at large. Review books, exhibitions, films, television and other media events. Celebrate sexual and social diversity and creative collisions of political cultures.
http://www.boudoir-noir.com/index.html
Online version of Canada's fetish/leather/SM magazine. Includes sample articles, photos, an online store for the merchandise, and of course a way to subscribe to their regular magazine.
Learn why the word Tantra is generally misused in the West. Your basic how-to guide. Thank you, Vatasyayana.
Travel guides showing places in the USA that cater to gays and lesbians, whether traveling on business or on vacation. These books can also be found in most major bookstores.
http://washington.xtn.net/~mikec/dungeon.htm
An online newsletter for those who are interested in the BD/SM lifestyles or are merely curious. Full of links to related sites.
http://www.calweb.com/~ilk/earotic.html
Downloadable sound bites (pun fully intended). Unrehearsed, real-audio recordings of couples and (so far) female in flagrante delicto. The Webmaster even provides extraordinary messages left on his answering machine.
Provides information for Judeo-Christian marrieds who are interested in improving or re-sparking their love lives by introducing them gently into the (forced) underground world of kink. Even provides children links to encourage the peering eyes of youth to jump to more appropriate sites.
http://www.blowfish.com/fishnet/
A literary online magazine of erotica, with fiction, essays, and columnists. Updated every Friday. Excellent magazine layout.
http://www.mind.net/jack/indexp1.htm
What more could be said? An online infomercial with e-mail, "chat," endorsements from successful practitioners, and an order page to get the audio tape or guide book.
http://heartfire.com/tantric/loving.html
Helps stressed couples relearn how to be intimate—mentally, emotionally, and physically. Considers the needs of corporate lovers with little time or changing schedules. Offers Tantric Loving weekend getaways for practicing Power of Love techniques. As one graduate put it, "It's like making love before you make love."
http://www.cybortronik.com/warning3.html
Commercial site for Dallas based O Magazine; it calls itself the magazine of "THE ART OF FETISH , FASHION & FANTASY." No sample articles, but extensive photo gallery.
http://www.penthousemag.com/home.html
See this month's table of contents, cropped figures (due to the CDA), subscription information, toy store connections, and a link to the sister publication, Omni.
http://www.src-inc.com/~amsterdam/
Join the online 'zine and gain access to downloadable pictorials, movies, and gay material. FAQs include the question, "Why pay for online erotica when it can be obtained for free on the Net?" Answer: You get what you pay for.
Another commercial site (out of the UK), this one has an extensive online presence, with sample articles and photos.
http://www.dc.enews.com/magazines/yellow_silk/
The Yellow Silk online magazine. Download online stories, or view lists of recommended videos, books, and poetry.
http://www.blowfish.com/catalog/index.shtml
"Cool Sex Stuff, for Cool People, Who Have Sex." An online catalog of practically everything (for every sexual persuasion) that one could want. Even comix. They accept Visa, MC and Amex.
A "digital boutique" featuring bondage devices and other S&M and fetish goodies, relevant clippings, online shopping with plenty of photos.
Dedicated to classic nylons from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Tastefully designed online lingerie shop.
Another form of safe sex is the avoidance of sexual intercourse altogether. Over 400 sexy products for driving yourself or your lover(s) crazy. 'Nuff said. ;-) ;-)
http://www.erotic-bookshop.co.uk/index1.html
Provides an online catalog of the titles carried (both fiction and nonfiction), along with brief excerpts and the occasional review. A gallery of erotic photos accepts subscriptions. For all persuasions. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
http://www.evn.com/index2.html
Like adult movies but hate the dark, smoky places where you get them? Now, in these days of AIDS and safe sex, you can order these movies from the privacy of your own home.
Order posters, photos, videos online. Features domination, catfighting, wrestling for all genders, and other, more exotic entertainment. E-mail link provided for employment opportunities.
http://www.eden.com/~plainwrp/choco/
Great gift ideas for those wanting to taunt their in-laws on Easter. Double your pleasure with anthropomorphic bunnies, x-rated suckers, and busty lollipops, which all come together to make one of the most interesting and tasty sites on the Web. MMMmmmmmm. Choooocolate.
Select tasteful playware for men or women, broken down by type, such as teddies, garters, panties, boxers, and briefs. Choose to view them in either JPEG or GIF. The models, male and female, are worth the trip alone.
http://www.dynamo.com/sensuous/index.html
More toys than you can shake a[el] er[el] you get the idea. Assumes pleasure needs for both men and women (not that these toys have an F or M on them to tell you whom they're to be used on).
http://www.trirsex.com/index.html
Online adult film and CD-ROM store. Order from the privacy of your home and choose from a score of "preference" catalogs. Gives new meaning to "Satisfaction guaranteed."
http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/orient.html
This site for the American Psychological Association provides just plain answers to the most common questions about sexual orientation. Text format, very readable, fact-based and backed up with hard clinical research—but not overly medical in tone.
http://www.youth.org/zines/blair/
The online "superzine for kooks and retards such as yrself!" An interesting array of articles for the most alternative of alternative people, ranging from academic discussions about the "ugliest shoes on the planet" (Clark Wallabees) to Pippi Longstocking movies.
http://www.transgender.org/tg/chic/index.html
Web site for a cross-dressing group based out of L.A.—a very private organization that requires board approval for membership. Lists of other significant groups for folks of the same persuasion, dozens of links to other relevant sites.
http://www.cris.com/~Kalina/Vamp/ClubKid.html
Transgendered page with host/hostess Kalina Isato. Plenty of links to interesting sites for cross-dressers, entertaining info on some of Kalina's own adventures, and of course great makeover and dressing advice from an expert.
http://gloria-brame.com/diflove.htm
Covers topics ranging from your basic D&S and foot fetishes to infantilism, body piercing, water sports, and more, extending as far as the human imagination. Features interviews from the book Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance & Submission. More links to related sites than can be counted.
http://www.dyketv.org/index.html
A weekly show produced by lesbians for lesbians, the show mixes news, commentary, and the arts. Lesbian film-makers all around the country are encouraged to help create the public access show's segments.
http://www.webpost.com/barguide/
Pick a state and learn where to go to have an alternative time. A form is even provided to submit bars not yet in the guide.
A nonprofit organization that provides a vital service to the gay community by providing nationwide toll-free peer-counseling, information, and referrals. Offers links, a business referral database, and the opportunity to join the hotline.
This searchable site includes some of the best of the gay and lesbian Web—the Top Ten list provides not only great links but a description of each so that you can decide whether you want to jump before you take the leap. The news section includes both mainstream and alternative journalism. Excellent graphics and a well-designed layout.
http://critpath.org/~tracy/gq/queers.html
Dedicated to fighting hatred and bigotry and promoting equal rights for queers through networking, organizing, and direct action.
Support and advocacy group for intersexuals, defined here as "individuals born with anatomy or physiology which differs from cultural ideals of male and female." Very heavy on medical terminology; parents who are concerned about dealing with these issues should find this site enlightening but may need a medical dictionary handy.
Well-designed pages of poetry, art, and links to other lesbian-related sites. Coverage of sapphic poetry is extensive.
http://www-lib.usc.edu/~retter/main.html
Site dedicated to record, archive, and publicize work on lesbian history in any geographic area or time period, with an emphasis on lesbians of color in general and southern California in particular.
Michelle's Mid Day Break is the main feature of this drag-oriented e-zine, put together by a cross-section of folks from around the country (okay, pun intentional). Chat rooms, plenty of shopping and other resources, personals, anonymous newsletters and mailing lists for subscribing, and of course the lovely Michelle, who enjoys "being a girl."
Make-OUT! online dating service (free and anonymous). Details on the gay community, lifestyles, news, entertainment and education, and you mustn't miss Out magazine online.
http://www.travelbase.com/destinations/keywest/pines-keywest/
The home page of a Key West resort devoted to providing a friendly, relaxed, affordable atmosphere. Clothing optional.
Lots of lively chat, a fascinating reference library, focus on political and community activities, and resources, resources, resources! (The QRD is particularly useful.) A very upbeat place for people to connect to people with the same outlook.
More than 18,000 files—covering practically everything related to the gay/lesbian/bi/trans* lifestyle. Plenty of useful information in an easy-to-use alphabetic format, plus dozens of links to related sites.
Chat areas, message boards, links to other LGBT* sites—and even resources for the "straight" visitor . Fascinating animated comic strip (be patient; those graphics take a while to download). QZine and other online magazines.
http://www.infi.net/~heck/sprinkleshow.html
Web site for Annie Sprinkle, star of numerous X-rated feature films. List of upcoming events featuring Annie Sprinkle, plenty of products available to order online, etc. Her résumé alone is worth the trip to this location.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1185/
Insights of a modern-day dominatrix. Check out her biography.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~johol/netbooks/CarnalGuide/carnal.txt
If you want to spice up your fantasy role-playing game, instead of role-playing your fantasies you should read this site (confusing, isn't it?).
Access to DivaNet, "The Cyberfetish Ubermall," where you can shop for high-fashion erotic clothing, accessories, and toys, and read Diva Z, an online magazine featuring hot authors and photos. Excellent graphics and interesting articles. Note that Diva Z is currently available in frames version only and may be a little slow to load, depending on your equipment and of course how busy the site is.
http://www.av.qnet.com/~stasya/text.htm
Interesting site for a topic most people know very little about. Gives a whole new twist to the command, "Come, Spot, come."
For info on AIDS and AIDS-related issues, stop by this site. Well-organized access to publications, resources, services, and just plain information.
http://www.condomania.com/index.html
With a name like that, they should speak for themselves: "Condomania, America's first condom store, was established June 1991, in New York City. Condomania now operates retail stores, a mail order division and Condomania OnLine to help meet the needs of safer people everywhere[el]" This is a Web site you gotta see.
http://www.webcom.com/~condom/
You'll never have to experience the knowing smirks of clerks again! Besides links to related sites, use the Internet to buy contraception to be delivered to your door. Easy way to sample all the erotic varieties without the fuss of not knowing where to start.
http://www.webcom.com/~condomz/
Order condoms online. The siteholder promises discreet delivery and no selling of your contact information. Plenty of additional links to other safe sex resources.
http://www.positive.org/cps/light/dqs/DQS_TOC.html
Same basic content as the "Just Say Yes" site, but in Spanish.
http://opr.princeton.edu/ec/ec.html
You may not be able to find this information anywhere else in the world. Lists of common questions and answers, options, and providers. The straight dope when you need it most.
http://opr.princeton.edu/ec/contrac.html
Learn more about contraceptives and methods with links to pages about emergency contraception, device failure rates, Planned Parenthood, and more. Also links to general reproductive information pages.
http://www.webcom.com/~cps/jsy/jsy.html
Plenty of straight talk about sex-related issues, including pregnancy, abortion, bisexuality, homosexuality, safe sex, and more. Nothing is off-limits and everything has a positive spin.
Comprehensive coverage of many aspects of safer sex. Serves individuals as well as health professionals. The site includes multimedia files about condom manufacturing and sex myths, and provides many links to related sites.
http://pages.wbs.net/webchat3.so?cmd=cmd_doorway:The_Safer_Sex_Page
Detailed technical information on sexually-transmitted disease and how to prevent it. Chat rooms, where the site manager requests straight-up talk and no netsex (links are provided to reroute netsexers to appropriate locations). Plenty of links to other interesting places, too.
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~sfpse/
Extensive sexuality library (search the index online or download it via the linked FTP site), safe sex guidelines, info on their electronic mailing lists. Text-based information.
Covers topics relevant to helping people and families affected by sexually-transmitted diseases.
Commercial Web site for a group of clinical diagnostic and treatment facilities, which also offer seminars and publications. Even if you don't need treatment, you may find the information at this site to be interesting and helpful.
http://www.intraserv.net/saunders/
Apparently sexual problems are more common than you might think. This site discusses common problems and defines terminology. Dr. Saunders holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and was trained in sex therapy at UCLA.
http://www.pencomputing.com/dim/dimtext/positions/niedershuh1.html
Fascinating article about sexual intercourse between partners, at least one of whom is overweight. If the statisticians are right about the percentage of Americans who tip the scales on the obese side, lots of people may need this straightforward advice.
http://www.worldpassage.net/herpeszone/
Contains information for sufferers and non-sufferers alike. Knowledge about herpes viruses has really only begun in the last 25 years, and this site very professionally discusses living and coping with the virus, which also causes shingles and chicken pox, among other diseases.
Provides news, statistics for the need for planning, publications, and links to other organizations interested in population control.
Site for a group of sex therapists who consult with troubled clients anonymously via e-mail (telephone or in-person sessions are also available for scheduling). Fee of $25 per question is typical, although simple factual information may be dispensed free of charge. Questions are answered within 24—72 hours.
http://www.missouri.edu/~shape/
This college peer-education program is founded on the belief that students can be effective in influencing the health knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of other students concerning all types of sexually-transmitted diseases. SHAPE members discuss the importance of communication, decision-making, and safer behaviors in the expression of sexuality.
The Web site for the advocacy group Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. Plenty of links, resources, news, fact sheets, etc. Some of the SIECUS publications are now available online; others can be ordered via this site.
http://www.armory.com/tests/female.html
One hundred questions for females only. You may find the questions disturbing, arousing, or just interesting. Submit the form to see where your answers figure against those of other interviewees. Click the Purity Test link to jump to a whole set of other tests you can take for fun.
http://fremont.scs.unr.edu/~mvl/
Want to participate in the first Internet survey on dating? What do you look for in a partner? (Singles only—married folks are requested to hop over to http://www.unc.edu/~schaefer/survey.htm.)
http://www.armory.com/tests/seuss.html
Apologies to Theodore Geisel, of course. This one is a rhyming set of smilers, laughers, and groaners. Enjoy.
http://www.clinet.fi/~frelon/pleasure.html
Great place to start looking if you want to find plenty of sexuality-related sites. Very popular spot; may be a little slow to load. Updated frequently, so check in often.
http://www.txdirect.net/~riffraff/purity.html
If you're a Rocky Horror Picture Show fan, this is the site for you. The questions are numerous and sometimes hilarious (they seem to resemble other purity tests in some fashion[el]).
http://Reality.sgi.com/sommda_engr/dreamscape.html
After reviewing (and possibly answering) the 100-question test, feel free to hop over to SexKittyn's erotic dreams page and read accounts of some of her personal favorites.
http://members.aol.com/SexyChyck2/purity/index.html
Definitely Net-oriented. Many of the usual questions, but with a Net twist. SexyChyck includes a link to her home page, where things can get even a little more interesting.
http://www.nmt.edu/~kscott/purity/
The writer at this site recommends holding a Purity Test Party with a group of friends and reading out the 500 questions for group answering. Could be fun. . . Even if you don't take the test, be sure to read the history, instructions, copyright, and disclaimer for a little entertainment.