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Virtual sex work is nothing new on TV. But this year it is more visible, central to series like “Euphoria,” “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” and “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed.”

As more sex workers quit the industry, some are having to navigate tough questions around consent and the “afterlife” of work they no longer want to be associated with.

The rise of OnlyFans and AI has some sex workers concerned their likenesses will be exploited. They want protections from the Nevada brothels where they work.

The rise of OnlyFans and AI has some sex workers concerned their likenesses will be exploited. They want protections from the Nevada brothels where they work.

These founders know their companies can make investors and social media platforms squirm. They’re finding ways to succeed, regardless. Anna Lee remembers walking into rooms full of male investors with a prototype of her startup’s smart vibrator in hand. It might as well have been a slithering snake.

Harvard's Schlesinger Library didn’t set out to be a repository of 1980s pornographic history. It all started with the death of the feminist pornographer Candida Royalle. In 2015, the library’s then-director, Jane Kamensky, spotted Royalle’s obituary in The New York Times, which described her work as “female-oriented, sensuously explicit cinema as opposed to formulaic hard-core pornographic films that she said degraded women for the pleasure of men.”

The filmmakers behind Love Lies Bleeding (director Rose Glass and her co-writer Weronika Tofilska) are, as Glass describes “obviously … both film nerds”.

As demand for responsive sexbots grows, some developers are trying to thread the needle between fully neutered and fully uncensored AI