The Kiss
JoAnn Wypijewski : Barack Obama Administration
Let us pause, amid the muddle of the moment in this season of renewal and fresh starts, to consider fundamental things.
JoAnn Wypijewski : Barack Obama Administration
Let us pause, amid the muddle of the moment in this season of renewal and fresh starts, to consider fundamental things.
Laura Secor : Iran
Is sexual promiscuity in Iran a sign of political ferment or of an unmoored generation's dissipated energies?
JoAnn Wypijewski : U.S. Economy
Behind the scrim of boom times there was always debt and sex--and the intimate economy of panic and desire.
JoAnn Wypijewski : Presidential Election 2008
The old warrior deploys sex as a central political weapon to recharge his potency and his party's fortunes. Is there a trap here?
JoAnn Wypijewski
A desperately needy America warms to the hot married love of Barack and Michelle.
JoAnn Wypijewski : Media Analysis
The Spitzer affair's obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
Just once it would be nice to see a male politician caught in a sex scandal stand up there at a press conference all by himself.
Alexander Cockburn : Conservatives & The American Right
Was there a medium-sized right-wing conspiracy to nail Eliot Spitzer?
Lauren Berlant
In just two days, Eliot Spitzer went from white knight to shamed ex-governor. But the real loser in all of this is sex itself.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy : US Politics & Government
The shaming and resignation of Senator Larry Craig proves that if you're going to be a hypocrite in American politics, it pays to be a straight hypocrite.
Chastity advocates: Lay off the adolescents and concentrate on the vast numbers of middle-aged and elderly who aren't getting any. Make them feel good about their lifestyle choice!
Nona Willis-Aronowitz : Feminism & Women
Wendy Shalit's new book pits "good girls" against "girls gone wild." But where's the middle ground?
What happens when liberals lose their sex drive? American culture moves further away from secular individualism and closer to religious fundamentalism.
Cristina Nehring : Gender & Sexuality
Orgasms used to be a secret, then they became a right. Now they're a duty.
A biography of Utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick sheds new light on life in the Victorian era.
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
Is the threat of cervical cancer at age 60 really keeping teenage girls virgins?
Patricia J. Williams : Law & Justice
A closer look at sexual abuse cases makes the questions surrounding them even murkier.
Patricia J. Williams : Law & Justice
While Jackson's trial is appalling, it is not the stuff of ordinary tabloid catharsis.
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
I never thought I would miss unfair, infuriating, over-the-top Andrea Dworkin.
Lawrence ought to be read as protecting all consensual, private sexual relations, not just those that resemble heterosexual, procreative marriage.
Richard Kim : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Santorum hates much more than just "homosexual acts."
Marc Cooper : Labor Organizing & Activism
Led by a former Boeing machinist, Las Vegas exotic dancers are talking union.