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  • Education of a call girl

    What I learned about marriage while working as a Manhattan prostitute.
    By Tracy Quan November 7, 2003

  • Love letters

    The author of "A Venetian Affair" says we can learn much from the story of 18th century passion between his ancestor and the woman he wasn't allowed to marry.
    By Karen Croft November 4, 2003

  • Scoring a husband

    The author of a new book says that branding is as important as romance in finding a mate. Part 2 of "I'm Refreshingly Approachable! I'm a Two-in-One Shampoo! Marry Me!"
    By Cole Kazdin October 28, 2003

  • I'm refreshingly approachable! I'm a two-in-one shampoo! Marry me!

    In which the hapless author slavishly obeys a new bestseller that instructs husband-hunting women over 35 to market themselves like a brand.
    By Cole Kazdin October 27, 2003

  • Hollywood goes down

    A spate of new films -- one with girl-next-door Meg Ryan -- depict graphic oral sex scenes. Is the film industry's portrayal of sexuality finally beginning to get real?
    By Rebecca Traister October 23, 2003

  • Watching my marriage end on the big screen

    The first time I watched "The Secret Lives of Dentists," based on a novella I wrote about my divorce from the father of my daughters, I laughed all the way through it. The second time I didn't.
    By Jane Smiley October 21, 2003

  • An antique institution

    When my first marriage ended, I thought I'd figured one thing out: Don't ever get married. Not if you enjoy sex. And then I met Janet.
    By Benjamin Cheever October 14, 2003

  • State of the Union

    A new Salon series examines marriage from all angles -- who does it and why and what happens before, during and after the promises.
    By Karen Croft and Lori Leibovich October 14, 2003

  • Yellow porn

    In the U.S. adult film industry, Asian women are a sexual fetish and Asian men are almost completely absent. Prof. Darrell Hamamoto wants to change that -- by producing skin flicks with Asian male stars.
    By Harry Mok October 10, 2003

  • "I was a middle-aged virgin"

    Roger is 49 years old and has only had intercourse once -- with a surrogate. He's not alone.
    By Michael Castleman October 8, 2003

  • No intercourse, please -- we're enlightened

    Sensitive, feminized and resentful, today's young men no longer have the sexual authority to please a woman -- no matter how much oral sex they perform.
    By Ann Marlowe October 1, 2003

  • Bathroom confidential

    I went to a strip club with my boyfriend, but I got more of a thrill hanging with the girls in the ladies' room than he did out front.
    By Saara Dutton September 24, 2003

  • Look away, Dildo Land

    The author of "Sex in the South" whoops it up at a sex-toy sales meeting in Arkansas.
    By Suzi Parker September 11, 2003

  • Sanitized for our protection

    Teenage movie fans can watch the stars of the execrable "Bad Boys II" leer over a corpse's breasts, but the all-powerful movie ratings board probably won't allow Americans to see the Italian master Bertolucci's new film intact.
    By Charles Taylor September 5, 2003

  • Adultery as an act of cultural rebellion

    Laura Kipnis, author of "Against Love," talks about Newt Gingrich's wanderings and the absurd dream of monogamy.
    By David Bowman September 3, 2003

  • Straight eye for the queer gals

    Why do men love to see women kissing? It's about self-loathing -- and the lusciousness of the female body.
    By Charles Taylor August 27, 2003

  • A Paris tryst

    A memoir of an affair that will simmer in my soul forever.
    By Louis Slovinsky August 21, 2003

  • Play ball

    I'm a hardcore baseball guy not usually into mushy stuff, but this Harlequin romance really put cork in my bat.
    By Joe Lavin August 20, 2003

  • What do women want?

    Most everything, according to a new study that shows women are more aroused by more forms of erotica than men.
    By Jason Feifer August 12, 2003

  • Traci talks

    Former underage porn queen Traci Lords chats about how Ronald Reagan saved her life, dressing like a pony for a Japanese spanking party, and how she's helping teen girls out of the kind of life she led.
    By David Bowman August 1, 2003

  • What's wrong with American men and women?

    My skillful Turkish bed mate told me, in vivid detail.
    By Ann Marlowe July 29, 2003

  • My daughter's reality show

    I was cool, I watched "Sex and the City" with my 14-year-old daughter. But then she asked, "Can Ben sleep over?"
    By Stephanie Lehmann July 25, 2003

  • Dealing with it

    The new Mandy Moore vehicle isn't a great movie, but its honesty about teen sexuality is good enough to frighten some adults.
    By Charles Taylor July 23, 2003

  • Diary of a college girl, Part 3

    I was drunk and horny so I decided a one-night hookup wouldn't violate my ambiguous vows. Then things got messy.
    By Jessica Grose July 16, 2003

  • Barry White, RIP

    The sexy singer's "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" was the "We Shall Overcome" of the bedroom.
    By Charles Taylor July 9, 2003
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