Sex & Relationships

Why Do We Live in a World That's Petrified of Women Who Love Sex?

By Noah Brand / The Good Men Project

Our culture is deeply invested in our women-don’t-like-sex lie. We have to throw out basically all of the data to make that theory fit, so we blithely do just that.

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The 11 Dumbest Things Conservatives Have Said About Women

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Why Do Some People Make So Much Noise During Sex?

By Lucy McKeon / Salon

Are Conservatives Winning the War on Women? How the Religious Lobbying Industry Truly Threatens Our Rights

By Sarah Posner / Salon

Why Porn Can Be Good For You (And Society)

By Liz Langley / AlterNet

Can You Date Someone With Different Political Views Than You?

The 10 Weirdest Sex-cessories

The Psychology of Pick-Up Lines

Sex & Relationships

Santorum's Policies Would Have Killed My Daughter

Sarah Fister Gale / Salon

Wondering if Your Relationship Will Last? Why Your Levels of the 'Cuddle Hormone' May Be the Decider

Ron Jacobs / Miller-McCune.com

Why Right-Wingers' Hatred of Modern Women Is Going to Cost Them the Birth Control Battle (and a Whole Lot of Votes)

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

10 Things the American Media Really Need to Learn About Sex

Melissa Gira Grant / AlterNet

Why Is Rick Santorum Obsessed With Your Sex Life?

Ana Marie Cox / Comment Is Free

38 Years of Self-Love: How "Sex for One" Changed Our Ideas About Masturbation

Thomas Rogers / Salon

Moyers: Why Religion Should Not Dictate Our Politics

Bill Moyers / BillMoyers.com

Sex and Booze: The Surprising Things I Learned From Being a Sex Worker and Recovering Alcoholic

Emma Lee / The Fix

Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control -- And Why We'll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

Sex and Food: The World's Strangest Aphrodisiacs Through Time

Felisa Rogers / Salon

A Christian Conservative in Every Bedroom? Rick Santorum's Nightmare Vision for America

Lawrence Davidson / Consortium News

Occupy Valentines Day: Celebrate Love, Not Commerce

B Michael Payne / AlterNet

What's Wrong with Cities' Fight Against Sex Shops, Strip Clubs, and Sleaze?

Will Doig / Salon

Ellen Stands Up to Right-Wing Gay Bashing Group

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

The Making of Gay Marriage's Top Foe: How Maggie Gallagher's College Pregnancy Made Her a Traditional Marriage Zealot

Mark Oppenheimer / Salon

Has the Market Rejected the Religious Right's Hateful Social Agenda?

Tina Dupuy / AlterNet

Is It Time for Fair Trade Porn?

Erika Christakis / Huffington Post

Knocked Up: Republican Presidential Candidates' Plan for American Women

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Sex Therapist Shares the Secret to Hot Sex (Hint: It Has More to Do With the Mind Than the Body)

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

Son of New York Police Commissioner Accused of Rape, Media Smears Alleged Victim

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Praying to Be Skinny and Straight: Why Evangelicals Are Concerned With Weight-loss and 'Ex-gay' Therapies

Hannah Tepper / Salon

Why New Birth Control Benefits are the Right Choice and Why Religious Conservatives Have it Wrong

Naomi Cahn, June Carbone / AlterNet

DNA Database of Men Who Pay for Sex? The Strange Push to Make Cops Collect DNA from Suspected Johns

Melissa Gira Grant / AlterNet

Memo to the News Media: Newt Didn't Want an 'Open Relationship' -- He Just Wanted to Cheat

Theresa "Darklady" Reed / AlterNet

Why Evangelicals Don't Care When Rich White Conservatives Defile Marriage

Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet

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