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Common Claims: Polanski and Rape in Early America

In September 2009 director Roman Polanski was detained in Switzerland for extradition to the United States. He was to face a sexual assault-related conviction, from which he’d run away three decades earlier. A plethora of news reports followed. Movie stars, politicians, legal experts, bloggers, and other commentators took sides.

Big Booty Beauty and the New Sexual Aesthetic

My American friends dreamed of bigger breasts; the Cuban women in my family stressed the value of a bounteous derrière

Single and Happy

Much of the conventional wisdom about people who are single is either grossly exaggerated or just plain wrong. The place of singles in society and the significance of getting married have changed dramatically over the past decades.

Meet market

After years of being shunned by the socially able, online dating has finally made its way into the mainstream. More people than ever are signing themselves up in the hopes of meeting just about anyone, lining up dates like it’s nobody’s business. In response to the increasing demands of the horny and bored, online dating services have gone the way of niche marketing, targeting singles by religion,

Sexuality and Mourning in American Catholicism

It's not exactly breaking news that religious groups in the United States get het up over sex and gender. If it's not abortion, it's abstinence education, or stem-cell research, or gay marriage that gets them going. And while church people carry these concerns into the pubic square, they also fight about them with one another, and sometimes

Call to End Ab-Only Sex Ed

Two weeks ago, the Senate Finance Committee passed an amendment from Senator Orrin Hatch to reinstate $50 million per year to the failed Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program. The amendment passed by just one vote, 12–11. Today, sex ed supporters from around the country are uniting to call in to the Senate and say no to ab-only,

Q&A with Robie H. Harris

When it comes to sexuality education, Robie H. Harris is a pioneer.

Hairy Marvels and Beastly Sex

One afternoon in 1594, the scientist Ulisse Aldrovandi visited the home of a wealthy friend in Bologna in northern Italy. Among other visitors at the elegant home was Isabella Pallavicina, the Marchesa of Soragna. With the marchesa was Antonietta Gonzales, the young daughter of Petrus Gonzales. Like her father and like most of her sisters and

Sexual, Revolutionary

The first sex column in a college newspaper was conceived amid a political uproar that had nothing to do with sex or the column at all. On November 3, 1996, after a “very heated discussion,” the eleven member editorial board of The Daily Californian, the independent student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley,

Q&A with Dr. Alison Huang: Studying the Sexuality of Older Women

As women age they may experience dwindling interest in sex, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t doing it or have lost all desire.

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