Stories by Lara Riscol
A fourth of American teen girls have an STD. Playing sex police only makes the problem worse.
Posted on Mar 27, 2008
It's time we stand up for sexual health education, services and civil rights so everyone can have pleasure with dignity -- or without, as we choose.
Posted on Mar 3, 2008
It was a year when conservatives made sexual perversion an art form.
Posted on Dec 28, 2004
The right is rallying its 'pro-family' troops for 2004, reacting as if sanctioned sexual privacy poses a bigger threat to national security than Osama bin Laden.
Posted on Jul 22, 2003
The abstinence movement has glommed onto Miss America's triumphant victory as the ultimate virgin-slut morality tale.
Posted on Oct 10, 2002
Right-wing moralizers wink at boys' sexual foibles -- it's unfettered female sexuality that they think is leading us into perdition.
Posted on May 21, 2002
The 81-year-old Miss America pageant doesn't look that firm standing next to the uberwomen of Victoria's Secret.
Posted on Apr 22, 2002
Colin Powell recently came under intense fire for advocating condom use among young people. Can the "abstinence-only" Bush crowd survive Powell's honesty?
Posted on Feb 19, 2002
Despite Bush's simplistic analysis that "they hate us because we love freedom," Islamic fundamentalists most definitely hate our sexual freedom. As the Religious Right does here.
Posted on Oct 19, 2001
A day after Terrible Tuesday, the Family Research Center praised our country's courage, but added, "Americans are not rising up to defend the right to slaughter the unborn [or] so homosexuals can marry." This is their idea of unity?
Posted on Sep 19, 2001
The legal love drug Viagra is the proud sponsor of Earth, Wind & Fire's next tour. Finally, baby boomers can get their sex, drugs and rock & roll all in the same concert again!
Posted on Aug 7, 2001
The upcoming American Pie 2 has a marketing deal with Lifestyle condoms. And for that -- not for the graphic sex jokes -- Hollywood's MPAA won't approve its TV ads.
Posted on Jul 31, 2001
A recent NIH study says there's no such thing as 100 percent safe sex. So should we throw out condoms and preach abstinence as the only sexual option? Conservatives think so.
Posted on Jul 24, 2001
We take to infidelity more naturally than we admit. Otherwise we wouldn't so readily jump into bed with Gary Condit, Chandra Levy and accounts of their salacious sex.
Posted on Jul 17, 2001
Like a pimply teenager smoking his first pack of Marlboros despite its warning label, President Bush has soundly rejected the Surgeon General's latest advice about sex.
Posted on Jul 10, 2001
When it comes to profiting off sex, there's not much difference between pop stars like Madonna and desperate teen strippers -- except for subtlety and fortune.
Posted on Jul 3, 2001
My best sex hasn't been for love or power, but for pure, exquisite pleasure. So when the Surgeon General admits that "beyond procreation, sex is for pleasure," it isn't radical to me ... but it is to right-wing moralists.
Posted on Jun 26, 2001
Once again, we have something in common with our former enemy. Russia is also held hostage by right-wing extremists when it comes to sex ed policies.
Posted on Jun 20, 2001
Last year President Clinton designated June Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. This June President Bush discontinued it. But that's not the half of it: Bush is our most anti-civil rights president of the civil rights era.
Posted on Jun 13, 2001
When the FCC slapped a $7,000 indecency fine on a radio station that played a sassy -- but hardly obscene -- rap song by feminist Sarah Jones, it revealed a stark double standard about sex on the airwaves.
Posted on Jun 5, 2001
Called the biggest kept secret in medicine, emergency contraception can be taken up to 72 hours after unprotected intercourse. Too bad the right is on a mission to deny the medication.
Posted on May 28, 2001
AlterNet's sex columnist goes head-to-head with founder of the National Alliance Against Christian Discrimination. The subject: masturbation.
Posted on May 22, 2001
Pornography -- America's closet sex educator -- has gotten more technologically sophisticated, explicit and accessible. What's happening to a nation bent on titillation?
Posted on May 15, 2001
In case you didn't know, the third annual Masturbate-A-Thon is upon us.
Posted on May 8, 2001
Are you down? Do you suffer from Female Sexual Dysfunction? Well, help's on the way, thanks to the brave new world of clitoral marketing.
Posted on May 1, 2001
At 75, the founder of Playboy is awash in blond booty and Viagra -- a hero (for some) of the adolescent age of American sex.
Posted on Apr 23, 2001
America's teen queen songstress and most geriatric member have teamed up to plug Pepsi -- evidence undeniable that the US is hostage to a schizophrenic approach to sex.
Posted on Apr 16, 2001
