“I want both: marriage and lovers, freedom and security. I want my husband to say yes to this.”
Sara Elkamel interviews Aya Aziz about Islam, sexuality, and the dimensions of the self.
A kiss on the lips that might as easily have been a kiss on the forehead.
A feature documentary considers the private lives of female sex workers at America's truck stops.
It wasn’t like we hadn’t grown accustomed to male wooers after Pa danced his way out of the picture, but something about Casero, that old bag, pissed me off.
Why we need to recognize the changing face of Western families.
“You’re delicious,” he says, meaning it, remembering the taste of mango.
The city of lights, migrant refugees, and gay Muslim weddings.
Two acts of terrorism stir up memories of the West Bank and homophobia.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision, a traveling exhibit on the treatment of homosexuals under Nazism sheds light on a darker period.
Boundaries of Taste: The filmmaker and artist on the evolution of bad taste.
An interview with Irish journalist and LGBT rights activist Una Mullally.
When the boy she was dating hit my sister, it made a sharp cracking sound, just like it does in the movies.
In Gavdos there is a sort of collective protest against the past. Not against history and the stubborn patterns we mistake for certainty, but against all evidence of time beyond the beach.
I could still feel his touch, and each time I thought about his truck I felt guilty.
A conversation with Julia Ingalls on the fiction and non-fiction of child abuse.
The journalist on researching lust, the myth of female monogamy, and why “voyeurism is essential to good writing.”
In Malibu, there lived a beautiful old woman without a nervous system.
The journalist and former sex worker on what feminists get wrong about prostitution.
Guest fiction editor Roxane Gay introduces this issue's erotica.
Character study vs. flimsy romance in Fifty Shades of Grey, Trishna,and Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
Is a new feminism that glorifies pregnancy and childbirth holding women back?
Pascal Bruckner’s musings on seduction come just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Hugh Hefner was once called a protofeminist and a social radical. But it’s been a while.
There were big ones and small ones and medium-sized ones, blonde and brunette, and even bald ones…
| Like the fines leveled against fornicators under the English feudal system, the GOP attack on Planned Parenthood is a way to keep poor women down. |
| Imagine if the public service of Eisenhower, JFK, and FDR were cut short by the media coverage of their indiscretions. Would we be better off if these men never became president? Of course not. |
There was a time when illegal abortion was the only option for a woman with an unwanted pregnancy.
