Catherine Townsend: To Tell Or Not To Tell?

I'm in LA for a few days, but I was really interested to read The Frisky's take on whether or not you should tell a friend if you suspect that their partner has been cheating. - 30/07/2009, Love & Sex

Catherine Townsend: Women turn to sex work in the downturn

There's an interesting piece in Salon about women turning to sex work to support themselves during the downturn...like 'Marie', a 30-year-old former corporate supervisor who is now turning tricks on Craigslist. - 26/06/2009, Americas

Catherine Townsend: The iPhone vibrator

Gizmodo has a review of MyPleasure.com's MyVibe application for the iPhone. The pros: It's a free, and a fun idea: It uses an on/off button and has up and down arrows that control the amount of vibration. - 19/06/2009, Features

Catherine Townsend: Cameron Diaz defends child-free women

So Cameron Diaz has spoken out in defence of women who don't want children by telling Cosmopolitan magazine that women are 'afraid to say that they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.' - 11/06/2009, News

Catherine Townsend: Want to live longer? Be a sugar daddy!

So researchers have confirmed what Hugh Hefner figured out a long time ago: That men who marry younger women live longer. They say that men who hook up with women seven to nine years younger cut the risk of premature death by 11 percent ,while those with brides 15 to 17 years younger cut their chances of dying early by a fifth. - 05/06/2009, News

Female ejaculation: Does it exist?

- 29/05/2009, Consummation

Desire: What really turns us on?

What is desire? It's a streetcar in New Orleans. It's a Bob Dylan album, and a Marlene Dietrich movie. It's the title of 13 songs by, among others, U2 and Geri Halliwell. It's the name of a brand of dark chocolates. And it's the cause of endless trouble between men and women. Today is St Valentine's Day when, across the nation, millions of se...- 14/02/2009, Desire

Best for celeb-spotting: Los Angeles

"God, Los Angeles is so shallow," many of my British friends say when I tell them that I'm obsessed with the place. They have a point. LA is like visiting a movie set – or Disneyland, complete with blue skies and palm-tree-lined boulevards. Except that instead of Mickey Mouse ears, the characters are all wearing oversized sunglasses and silicone bre Si...- 07/02/2009, Americas

Catherine Townsend: More money = oral sex?

At least there is one piece of good news during these depressing economic times: It seems that women who earn more money may be getting more oral sex - 07/01/2009, Love & Sex

Modern sex: Catherine Townsend logs on to the new revolution

After watching Blade Runner recently on late-night television, I wondered: whatever happened to all those scientists' predictions that humans would be having sex with robots by now – or at least in the very near future? After all, Ridley Scott's film is only set in 2019. I still can't imagine having a hot replicant boyfriend any time soon – a ...- 06/12/2008, The Sex Industry

Catherine Townsend: Why do women sleep around?

Finally, the New Scientist has come up with a response to guys who use the old chestnut, 'Men are genetically programmed to spread the seed, but women are meant to be monogamous because they only produce one egg per month!' - 27/11/2008, Love & Sex

Start your own Independent Minds blog

It’s an exciting day at The Independent with the launch of Independent Minds, our new comment and opinion platform for Independent journalists – and users. - 25/11/2008, Blogs

Catherine Townsend: Ramsay Embroiled in Affair

After reading about Gordon Ramsay's alleged seven-year affair in the News of the World, I couldn't help wondering why, in this day and age, anyone would choose to base their business around a family man image? - 25/11/2008, Infidelity

Sleeping around: My moment of truth happened at university

Even during my hedonistic teenage years, somewhere in the back of my mind I had a "checklist" for my life. I'd envisioned meeting the man of my dreams at around the age of 29, and marrying by 30ish. - 26/09/2008, The Seven Ages of Love

Sleeping around: The law of sexual supply and demand

Like many of my friends, I couldn't sympathise too much with the main characters in Indecent Proposal. Robert Redford, the gorgeous billionaire, offers Demi Moore $1m for one night with her. Greedily, her husband gives her permission to sleep with a man she's attracted to and this is meant to be a conflict?- 25/09/2008, The Sex Industry