The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and that can only mean one thing: cuffing season is here. And at The NSFW, we take “cuffing” a little more literally. Whether you’re cozied up with someone new or deepening a long-term connection, this is the perfect time to explore intimacy, play, and maybe just a little bit of kink. Here are 10 date ideas to heat up your cuffing season, including plenty you can bring to life inside the Clubhouse.

At the intersection of law, technology, and gender is the book, The Regulation of Sex Robots: Gender and Sexuality in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Routledge, 2025), which extends that agenda with a framework for governing human-like, AI-enabled sexual technologies, moving beyond binary debates and pushing for context-aware regulation, rather than knee-jerk bans.

Nathan Lents, a professor of biology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has devoted nearly 15 years to teaching a course on the biology of sex and gender. Those classroom discussions accumulated into his new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships. In it, he argues that diversity is not an exception in the animal kingdom but a rule, and that accepting this truth reshapes both biology and culture.

In the deep ocean, life evolves into forms so alien they often feel more like science fiction than biology. Among the most uncanny of these is the ghost shark, a distant relative of sharks and rays, whose mating rituals involve a forehead-mounted rod lined with retractable teeth. From this strange theater of deep-sea adaptation, it is not difficult to imagine a future where human beings begin to direct their own erotic evolution.

There was a time when queer sex culture lived almost entirely in the shadows. Nightclubs with no signs, bathhouses whispered about through word of mouth, hookups arranged in coded personal ads or through chance encounters in dimly lit corners of the city. Fast forward to today and it is impossible to miss how much of that same energy has entered the mainstream.

As American conservatism grows louder in its calls for “traditional marriage” and sex only for procreation, hookup culture has become a favorite target. The Far Right frames casual sex as a threat to stability, intimacy, and mental health. But what if that isn’t the full story? What if hookup culture is stronger and safer than ever and helps people build happier, healthier lives?

Once forever typecast as Dudley Dursley in Harry Potter, Harry Melling has made a dramatic, unrecognizable turn—literally and figuratively—at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

In Virgin Island, 12 sexually inexperienced young adults are isolated on a rural, convent-like estate with two “groundbreaking sex therapists,” Danielle and Celeste, guiding their sexual transformation. Using something called the “Somatica Method,” the therapists dismantle shame through escalating intimacy—with Danielle even offering to “help” clients lose their virginity.

Directed by Chad Hartigan and written by Simpsons alum Ethan Ogilby, The Threesome follows the awkward, chaotic, and hilariously emotional fallout of a spontaneous romantic entanglement. Premiering at South by Southwest and arriving in theaters September 5, 2025, it stars Zoey Deutch, Jonah Hauer‑King, Ruby Cruz, with comedic turns from Jaboukie Young‑White and more.

In May 2025, Psychology Today ran an article debunking the idea that bisexual identification among young people is merely a fashion statement. Backed by Clearer Thinking’s survey data, the piece argues this shift reflects real shifts in attractions and behaviors—not just a social bandwagon.

This week (17–20 July), the much‑anticipated Swingathon swings into Allington, Lincolnshire, celebrating its 5th year as the UK’s largest adult–alternative lifestyle festival. Over 1,000 like‑minded participants are expected to flock to the tranquil East Midlands village for three days of open-minded community, connection, and exploration.

New play explores a scandalous “what if?” for the royal family.

Nothing strikes more fear in a man’s heart than a woman unplugged.