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Taxing Strip Clubs for Rape? What's Wrong With This Picture?

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. May 27, 2012.

Strip clubs are an easy target for religious moralizing and political pandering — but should they be special targets for taxes?

Why I Love Weird Porn

Noah Brand, The Good Men Project. May 15, 2012.

The glories of DIY porn.

Tale of Two Cities: NYPD's Racist Arrests Create Class War in New York

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. May 13, 2012.

For the NYPD's stats to add up, they'd have to have stopped every young, black man living in the city once--and then some.

Top 5 Plastic Surgeries Men Get: The Pressure to be Physically Perfect Now for Men, Too

Craig Morgan, Rebel Magazine. May 10, 2012.

Men’s obsession with looking younger, hotter and better-kept has spawned a series of industries seeking to profit off that attitude shift.

11 Strange, Horrific, or Just Plain Weird Ways Societies Have Policed Sex Throughout History

Eric Berkowitz, Huffington Post. May 4, 2012.

Lawmakers have always set limits on how people take their sexual pleasures, and they have doled out a range of controls and punishments to enforce them.

Why Women (and Men) Get "Baby Fever"

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. April 22, 2012.

Could there be real science behind the old cliche of a woman's biological clock? I didn't believe it -- until now.

10 Wildly Depressing Facts About the Gender Wage Gap

Sarah Jane Glynn, Audrey Powers, Center for American Progress. April 16, 2012.

If progress continues at its current rate, it will take 45 years to eradicate the wage gap.

Mitt Romney's Plan to Woo Female Voters: Pretend Women Are Very Stupid

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. April 12, 2012.

Romney seems to assume that women don't care about sexual rights. But reproductive issues impact almost all women.

Rest Stop Confidential: How I Ended up Having Sex With Men in Bathrooms

Conner Habib, Salon. March 30, 2012.

Across America, countless men are meeting up for sex in highway bathrooms. I'm one of them. Here's why.

Why Men Should Not Be Ashamed of Their Sexual Desires

Noah Brand, The Good Men Project. March 23, 2012.

Many men may feel confused and ashamed about their fantasies and libidos. Here's why they should embrace them.

Do Men and Women Want Different Things After Sex?

Katie Ryder, Salon. March 15, 2012.

New science offers tantalizing insights into the meaning of what we do post-sex, from sleeping to cuddling.

The GOP's Latest Southern Strategy Transports Us to the 19th Century

Akiba Solomon, Colorlines.com. February 29, 2012.

How the GOP's strategy combines racism and sexism.

Why Porn Can Be Good For You (And Society)

Liz Langley, AlterNet. February 23, 2012.

Easy access to porn is blamed for everything from a decrease in male desire to poor body image in women. But are there social upsides?

Do Men Belong in the Women's Movement?

Elissa Strauss, AlterNet. February 13, 2012.

What role do men have in fighting for gender equality?

Men's Earnings Haven't Just Stagnated Over Past 40 Years--They've Fallen

Meteor Blades, Daily Kos. January 15, 2012.

A new report shows that full-time male workers in the United States were making less in real, that is, inflation-adjusted, dollars in 2009 than they were in 1969.

8 Obnoxious Cliches about Men, Women and Sex in Otherwise Good TV Shows

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. November 24, 2011.

As television becomes more daring, there are still many basic feminist ideas that read as taboo on the small screen.

Are Male Baby Boomers Doomed To Become Lonely Seniors?

Ruth Rosen, AlterNet. October 27, 2011.

Why are women more psychologically prepared for old age?

What Happens When the Woman Wants Sex Way More Than the Man? How Unfair Sex Stereotypes Strain Relationships

Hugo Schwyzer, The Good Men Project. October 20, 2011.

Men with lower libidos than their female partners are subject to a slew of unfair stereotypes.

5 Habits That Can Make Men Terrible at Sex (And What to Do About Them)

Diana Vilibert, How About We. October 12, 2011.

Bad sex is like sitting through a terrible movie and wondering if there's some way you can leave without anyone noticing.

Not All Men Are Sex Crazed Horn Dogs, Not All Woman Are Prudes -- Yet Sexual Double Standards Rule Our Relationships

Maria Pawlowska, The Good Men Project. October 7, 2011.

The sexual standard is something that creeps into our relationships and deteriorates our sex lives every time we double-check ourselves.

The Distorted Idea That the So-Called "Masculinity Crisis" Is Caused by Successful Women

Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Seal Press. October 4, 2011.

From the new book "Outdated," a look at our very dated ideas of masculinity and how they hurt our relationships and sex lives.

Occupy Wall Street: The Other 99% Is Not 90% Men

Melanie Butler, AlterNet. October 2, 2011.

This protest is about the 99% percent of Americans who have been on the short end of the economic stick, but it appears the media believes it's 90% male.

How to Get Laid Without Being a Jerk

Emily Heist Moss, The Good Men Project. September 29, 2011.

You should never feel like you’ve been convinced to have sex, and you should never feel like you’re doing the convincing.

Why Are Men Obsessed With Being Tough? How Unrealistic Expectations Hurt Men and Women

Cristen Conger, Hugo Schwyzer, Bitch Magazine. September 12, 2011.

Like women, men are pushed to obsess over unrealistic ways of looking and acting. And that hurts everyone.

Puritan Pundits Should Chill Out -- Here Are 5 Reasons I'm Happy I've Had Lots of Casual Sex

Greta Christina, AlterNet. August 28, 2011.

Things don't have to be permanent to be valuable. A fleeting moment can have as much value as a stone monument.

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