From AI sexbots to stay-at-home ‘hub-sons’: 10 Post stories that raised eyebrows in 2025
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Amid economic anxiety, government gridlock and political violence, it was often hard to remain optimistic in 2025.
But amid a seemingly unending stream of bad news, The Post’s Lifestyle team did their best to make readers smile — and raise their eyebrows — by reporting on the weirdest and wildest happenings in the Big Apple and beyond.
From AI sexbots and celibate Zoomers to the latest trends in couture and cosmetic surgery, our intrepid team felt no tale was too taboo to cover.
Below are 10 stories that got our city and country talking: read on, relax, and take respite from the doom and gloom that otherwise dominated headlines.
There was no shortage of sex stories in 2025 — but for many women, there was a shortage of sex.
As The Post reported in October, Gen Z and millennial women are fueling America’s bizarre bonking recession.
When it comes to investing, Jill Silverstein’s got it in the bag.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.