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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.

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.

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.

Christian Conservatives vs. Sex: The Long War Over Reproductive Freedom

Rob Boston, Church & State Magazine. May 1, 2012.

Americans today enjoy access to effective birth control. But it wasn't always this way and religious conservatives are trying to turn back the clock.

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.

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.

5 Countries That Do It Better: How Sexual Prudery Makes America a Less Healthy and Happy Place

Alex Henderson, AlterNet. April 12, 2012.

Sexual attitudes in Europe are the stuff of the Christian Right's nightmares — yet many of those societies are better for having more open attitudes toward sexuality.

Sex Through the Years: The Fascinating Ways Desire Changes Through a Lifetime

Liz Langley, AlterNet. April 10, 2012.

As people change, their sexual interests and desires can change as well, a process that should be embraced, not fought.

Understanding the Right's Fear of Sex: How America's Absurd Oral Sex and Sodomy Laws Were Overturned

Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. April 4, 2012.

After Lawrence v. Texas, the mere mention of “morality” was no longer enough to deny basic constitutional privacy rights.

What Happened When I Had Sex With My Favorite Porn Star

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. March 28, 2012.

Sleeping with my favorite male performer gave me new appreciation for the difference between fantasy and reality.

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 Strange, Fascinating History of the Vibrator

Erik Loomis, AlterNet. March 9, 2012.

The sex toy has its roots in the prude Victorian era -- but its history tells us a lot about the current attack upon women’s sexuality.

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?

10 Things the American Media Really Need to Learn About Sex

Melissa Gira Grant, AlterNet. February 21, 2012.

The sexual conversation often turns otherwise professional journalists and pundits into alarmists and preachers.

The New Porn CEOs: Women Taking the Helm at Sex Companies

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. February 19, 2012.

Lux Alptraum, the new head of Fleshbot, embodies how the Internet is changing the face of the adult industry.

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

Thomas Rogers, Salon. February 19, 2012.

A talk with Betty Dodson, the author of 1974's groundbreaking "Sex for One" about our changing attitudes towards self-pleasure

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

Felisa Rogers, Salon. February 14, 2012.

Hot chocolate? The potato? Piranhas? Throughout history, humankind has persisted in the belief that some foods are linked to sex.

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

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. February 7, 2012.

Sex therapist Marty Klein's message is antithetical to the sex advice found everywhere from self-help books to the supermarket checkout line.

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

Melissa Gira Grant, AlterNet. January 27, 2012.

Law enforcement and conservative campaigners want to threaten men who buy sex with the possibility of being marked for life in a government database.

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

Amanda Marcotte, AlterNet. January 25, 2012.

Gingrich doesn’t live by the strict sexual rules laid out by conservatives, because those rules are meant for other people: the poor, Democrats, gays, and minorities.

Is Gay a Choice? The Science Behind Actress Cynthia Nixon's Controversial Remarks

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. January 24, 2012.

Activists have long combated attacks on LGBT identities by highlighting the science showing that homosexuality is genetic, but there is other research worth considering.

Can Infidelity Make a Relationship ... Stronger?

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. January 23, 2012.

The specter of cheating looms large. But does it always have to have catastrophic consequences?

BDSM: Inside the World of Kink

Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon. January 17, 2012.

A look at San Francisco's kink community with an assistant anthropologist and author of "Techniques of Pleasure."

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