A man feared his life was over after finding out a man he had unprotected sex with had HIV, a court has heard. Adam Hall, 43, is accused of deliberately infecting seven young men with the virus after meeting them in bars in Newcastle or on dating apps, the city's Crown Court heard.

Two new books examine how sex fits into suburban and small-town life, respectively. First, Erin Somers explores marriage and desire in her novel The Ten Year Affair. In today’s episode, she speaks with NPR’s Andrew Limbong about combining a multiverse plot with domestic fiction.

The wildly popular fiction genre allows readers to talk openly about yearning, sex and desire. And it’s spilling over into their bedrooms.

A Chinese national said by London police to be one of the most prolific sex offenders they had ever investigated was jailed for life after admitting to a series of rapes, sex attacks and voyeurism on six women.