What We Actually Know About Sex in 2026
The honest inventory after eighty years of modern sex research. What's settled, what's genuinely contested, what we don't know because we never looked, and the Kinsey question revisited.
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Who Funds Sex Research and What They're Buying
Follow the money through sex research and you find out what conclusions are available. NIH politics, pharma's erectile dysfunction billions, the porn industry's proprietary data, the religious right's abstinence investment, and the independent researchers surviving in the margins.
The Female Orgasm Is Still Scientifically Controversial and That Tells You Everything
The clitoral anatomy wasn't fully mapped until 2005. The orgasm gap is enormous and largely ignored. The female Viagra disaster revealed whose sexuality gets medicalized. Where the actual research is now.
What the AIDS Crisis Did to Sex Research
The overnight legitimization of sex research under epidemiological emergency. What researchers found when finally allowed to ask, the political interference in AIDS research, and the data we still don't have because it was never funded.
The Researchers Who Got Arrested
Sex research has always operated one political cycle away from prosecution. The post-Kinsey legal landscape, the Meese Commission, IRB gatekeeping, and contemporary cases where universities caved to political pressure.
The Conversion Therapy Betrayal
Masters and Johnson published a fraudulent conversion therapy book in 1979. The methodology was indefensible, the gay community's response was scientifically grounded, Johnson distanced herself decades later, and the legacy question of whether bad late work invalidates good early work.
The Relationship That Was Also a Research Project
Masters and Johnson studied human intimacy for twenty years then married each other. It lasted twenty-one years. The power asymmetry, Johnson's late interviews, and what their personal failure reveals about the limits of physiological knowledge applied to relational problems.
The Sex Therapy Empire
The pivot from research to treatment. Human Sexual Inadequacy, the two-week intensive model, the surrogate partner program, the celebrity client network, and the Johnson problem of unacknowledged clinical genius.
Human Sexual Response and the Body That Surprised Everyone
The 1966 book Human Sexual Response overturned a century of assumptions. The vaginal lubrication finding, the multiple orgasm data, the male refractory period, and the demolition of Freud's clitoral/vaginal orgasm distinction with instruments.
The Doctor Who Decided to Watch
William Masters convinced Washington University to let him study sex in a laboratory in 1954. The institutional negotiation, the recruitment of Virginia Johnson, the methodology of direct observation and physiological measurement, and what they actually measured.
The Attack on Kinsey Never Really Ended
Every generation produces a new attempt to discredit Kinsey. The 1950s backlash. Judith Reisman and the Kinsey-is-a-pedophile thesis. The 2004 film. Why Kinsey functions as a permanent target.
What Kinsey Was Actually Doing in That Attic
Filming; participating; recruiting staff into sexual relationships. The sampling problems. How to hold both: the data was more accurate than anything that existed; and the methodology was compromised.
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The Numbers That Changed Everything
37% of American men had at least one homosexual experience to orgasm. In 1948. The female volume (1953) even more controversial. The Congressional investigation. The Rockefeller Foundation pulling funding.
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The Kinsey Scale Is the Most Famous Scientific Instrument Nobody Understands
He didn't say everyone was bisexual. He said sexuality was a continuum and the binary was always fiction. The 0-6 scale. Behavior-based not identity-based.
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The Bug Guy Who Broke American Sexuality
Alfred Kinsey spent the first half of his career cataloguing gall wasps. Then he started asking people about orgasms and detonated the 20th century. 18000 subjects. Homosexual experience was not rare; masturbation near-universal; premarital sex the norm.
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The Sex Scientists: Everything You Know About Sex Came From These Weirdos
The researchers who studied the unspeakable; broke American mythology; and paid for it. Kinsey interviewed 18000 Americans. Masters and Johnson watched people have sex in a laboratory. Then both legacies got complicated.
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Can You Actually Live Like This?
He's not asking you to be him. He's asking you to build your own version. The Dalio principles that actually translate to non-billionaire life. The honest verdict: blueprint or personality cult?
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His China Bet
The man who systematized objectivity made the most subjective macro bet of his career. China's rise follows the same historical arc as every prior reserve currency transition.
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He Wrote the Self-Help Book Finance Bros Actually Read
Principles is a manifesto. Internal Bridgewater doc that went viral before viral was a thing. Tony Robbins; Silicon Valley operators; military strategists all cite it.
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The Weirdest Workplace on Wall Street
Your boss records your meetings; grades your reasoning in real time; and posts it for the whole firm. The baseball card system. Radical transparency as actual operating principle.
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He Built the Hedge Fund That Eats Hedge Funds
All-weather isn't a vibe; it's an architecture. And it prints. How Bridgewater grew to $150B+. Risk parity explained. The 2008 call.
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The Guy Who Turned Failure Into a Religion
Most people learn from their mistakes. Dalio built an institution around it. The 1982 blowup that nearly ended him. Pain + reflection = progress. The meditation practice as cognitive infrastructure.
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Ray Dalio: The Man Who Debugged Himself
Dalio built the world's largest hedge fund by treating his own mind like a broken system and rewriting the firmware. He meditates twice a day; filmed his own employees getting psychologically stress-tested; wrote a 500-page manual for being human.
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Can You Actually Do Any of This?
The practical close. What individual investors can extract from the quant worldview without a PhD. Factor investing, systematic rules, and knowing you're the fish at the table.