FEATURE: «SEX, WITHOUT INHIBITIONS» | Whether it’s a simple theme, a narrative driver, a motif of subversion, a realm for exploration or reappropriation, sexuality has always been present in literature, and has recently experienced a resurgence in popularity with the rise of chick lit, new romance, and dark romance—first on the Wattpad platform and then on bookstore shelves. The French literary scene features young authors such as Simon Johannin, Pauline Delabroy-Allard, and Arthur Dreyfus, who tackle this subject—without embellishment or pretense—to reveal its raw, natural essence. But there is one novelist who stands out with even greater audacity, combining an extremely classical writing style with a raw, sinister, and unvarnished observation of the carnal and human nature. That novelist is Jean-Baptiste Del Amo with *Une éducation libertine*.

BRIEF INSOLIT | After the removal of abortion rights from the U.S. Constitution last June, the Texas Attorney General expressed his willingness to reinstate a state law banning sodomy, if the Supreme Court allowed it. What exactly does this mean?

Caught between pornography and prudery, eroticism seems to be fading from the forefront of the Western scene. Difficult in...

DOSSIER «LE SEXE SANS COMPLEXE» | Shibari means «to tie», «to bind» in Japanese. Close to BDSM, this practice originates from samurai torture techniques. Now practiced in clubs all over Europe and Japan, shibari has joined the realms of performance art and so-called "wellness" sports such as yoga, breaking away from sadomasochistic sexual practices. So how and why did eroticism find its way into shibari, and finally out?

DOSSIER «LE SEXE SANS COMPLEXE» | The French historian René Rémond, who died in 2007, summed up the answer to this question in a shocking formula: sex, he wrote in 1987, entered politics in 1968! Does this aphorism imply that sex and politics, prior to that date, lived in separate spheres, intersecting only in the private lives of political actors and actresses?

DOSSIER «LE SEXE SANS COMPLEXE» | The prohibition of prostitution in certain European countries seems inconsistent, since pornography is legal there. Wouldn't a sound policy be to act upstream, to avoid encouraging on the Internet what we proscribe on the street, or to accept, like the old-timers, that it's better to regulate it, because it's a phenomenon that is, after all, inevitable?