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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?

The Sex Appeal of Women in Power

Salamishah Tillet, The Nation. May 23, 2012.

The TV shows Scandal and Veep portray women in politics as a sexy, powerful and fun. Both are refreshing departures.

Can You Find True Love By Sniffing a T-Shirt?

Lauren Eggert-Crowe, Salon. May 20, 2012.

At L.A.'s hottest new party, singles hook up by sniffing slept-in T-shirts. Is it science or speed dating?

A Night at the Vibrator Museum

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. May 20, 2012.

Early vibrators were hand-cranked, two-person jobs -- and prescribed by doctors. How far we've come since then.

Why I Love Weird Porn

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

The glories of DIY porn.

Can More Sex Save a Relationship?

Amy Levine, RH Reality Check. May 14, 2012.

How to remember what made you fall in love in the first place and have as much fun as when you first met.

How Casual Cyber Sex Became My Most Intoxicating Drug

Emma Lee, The Fix. May 13, 2012.

40 percent of the most extreme cyber sex users are women. They're likely to ignore normal safety precautions to put themselves in high-risk situations.

Why Are American Teens So Ignorant About Sex and Birth Control?

Irin Carmon, Salon. May 11, 2012.

A new survey reveals just how ignorant young people are about contraception and pregnancy.

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.

Everything You Need to Know About Breasts

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. May 10, 2012.

Did breasts evolve for lactation or to enhance sex appeal? A new book explores why they matter.

Sex-Loving Evangelicals: A Ploy to Fill the Pews?

Nicole Greenfield, Religion Dispatches. May 7, 2012.

More direct sex talk is a growing trend even among traditional evangelicals, and for several headline-grabbing pastors, it's the focus of their ministries.

A Ban on Kissing? The Right-Wing Sexual Fears in New Abstinence Bills

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. May 6, 2012.

Attempts to ban talk of birth control and homosexuality from classrooms reveal conservatives' deepest sexual fears.

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.

"It's Not You. It's Jesus." How TV Reflects Our Odd Attitude Towards Chastity

Willa Paskin, Salon. May 3, 2012.

There are three fictional adults grappling with their virginities with varying amounts of shame in big-name TV shows.

I Fell In Love Online--But Here's What Happened When We Met In Person

Allison McCarthy, Hoax Zine. May 3, 2012.

In the romantic transition from online chats to real-life meetings, the reality inevitably turns out more than you planned on and less than you had hoped for.

The Right-Wing's 20 Biggest Sex Hypocrites

Alex Henderson, AlterNet. May 3, 2012.

The ones who scream the loudest about how godly they are often turn out to be the exact opposite.

Why Are Conservatives Petrified of Sexual Freedom?

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. April 30, 2012.

Right-wingers seem to have a deep-seated fear of women's sexual rights.

8 Paranoid Sex Myths Spread by America's Anti-Sex Crusaders (Debunked by Science)

Dr. Marty Klein, Huffington Post. April 30, 2012.

When the subject is sexuality, facts have a pretty poor reputation in America.

"Whores' Glory": A Riveting Look at Sex Work in 3 Countries

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon. April 27, 2012.

A daring, novelistic and unforgettable account of the real lives of female prostitutes in three very different countries and social contexts.

Sex in Exchange for Gifts and Cash? What It's Like to Sleep With Wealthy Older Men for Financial Support

Clarisse Thorn, Role Reboot. April 25, 2012.

A 25 year old woman's experience on a "Sugar Daddy" site raises a host of class, race, and gender issues.

Porn Lit: Why the S&M "50 Shades of Grey" Is Freaking Everyone Out

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. April 23, 2012.

The erotic lit-sensation is nothing new, but a collection of classic archetypes about gender and sex.

‘We Don’t Go to Work to Be Touched’: Sexual Harassment in the Warehouse

Kari Lydersen, In These Times. April 22, 2012.

The same industry structure that allegedly allows for widespread violations of labor law also contributes to a climate of unchecked sexual harassment and retaliation.

Sex Escape: Why Do Men Go to Dominatrixes?

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. April 20, 2012.

Talking to pro-dommes about why some men find escape in submission.

The Future of Sex? 5 Trends That May Completely Transform Our Sex Lives

Emily Empel, AlterNet. April 18, 2012.

Pornography, prostitution, online sex -- in the future, it's all one thing. But is it a better thing?

Devil's Work: The Fascinating History of America's War on Masturbation and Porn

Eric Berkowitz, Counterpoint Press. April 18, 2012.

Here's a look at the absurd moral crusade to ban pornography in America.

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