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John Travolta is being sued by a male masseur who claims the actor tried to have sex with him during a massage session -- but the "Pulp Fiction" star's rep labeled the claims "complete fiction" and threatened legal action in response.

The crowd at Barnes & Noble on Friday night is excited but disciplined. Oh, they know all about discipline. . . . These are the feverish fans of E L James’s “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the erotic novel that brought S&M out of the closet and into the suburbs. Spawned last year in the dark waters of online fan fiction, “Grey” has grown into a mega-selling trilogy, topping e-book and paperback charts. Newsweek ran a cover story last month about the series. On TV and op-ed pages, cultural pundits and feminists argue about what it means.

More girls in the U.S. are remaining virgins until their late teens and into their 20s, with the biggest rates of decline in sexual activity seen among African-Americans and Hispanics, the CDC says.

An Irish priest at the center of a gay porn controversy has asked to leave his parish and take sabbatical leave from the priesthood, he said Sunday.

A Chicago-area man who allegedly was clocked driving 111 mph through a 45 mph forest preserve told a patrol officer he was in a hurry to “try to go have sex with a girl he liked.”

While UN 'World Happiness Report' results found that richer countries are happier than poorer ones, individual wealth bolsters happiness only in a limited way.

Though Spain’s economy is struggling, prostitution is booming, exploding into public view in cities and towns.

The Arkansas Supreme has struck down as unconstitutional a state law banning sexual contact between public school teachers and students.

Lawyers defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn against allegations he was involved in a French prostitution ring say he is being unfairly targeted for his active extramarital sex life and committed no crime.