Is Helen Gurley Brown's legacy more than just sex quizzes and cleavage? A new biography of Cosmo's founder proclaims her a pioneer of today's raunchy, unapologetic brand of feminism.
By Laura Miller Apr 12, 2009
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Controversial "Wetlands" author Charlotte Roche talks about bodily functions, shaving pubic hair, and why there are so few euphemisms for female masturbation.
By Nina Power
April 4, 2009
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I feel most alive with bisexual women -- how can I find the ideal match?
By Cary Tennis
March 6, 2009
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Author Daniel Bergner talks about extreme erotic behavior and why we have more in common with sadists and fetishists than we might like to believe.
By Sarah Hepola
January 27, 2009
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Thomas Beatie brought us a media circus and late-night punch lines. But there's something missing, say some transgender advocates -- more respect.
By Thomas Rogers
July 3, 2008
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I'm just out of college and want to experiment: Am I playing with fire?
By Cary Tennis
January 8, 2009
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Oh my God, why did I do that? Do I have to confess?
By Cary Tennis
November 21, 2008
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Should I tell? He didn't mind her sleeping with a woman, but another man is a different story.
By Cary Tennis
November 11, 2008
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His friends are loud, sexist pigs, but he stands up for them.
By Cary Tennis
September 17, 2008
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I thought I could reunify the family with a trip to the aquarium -- but after my mishap, she kicked me out.
By Cary Tennis
July 15, 2008
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I'm afraid if I tell him, he'll say, "Let's do a threesome."
By Cary Tennis
September 18, 2007
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Experts conclude: "Maybe we don't know what we're talking about."
By Tracy Clark-Flory
February 26, 2007
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I tease men into dominating me. Afterward I feel shame and anger.
By Cary Tennis
February 20, 2007
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Courses in sex skills are a growing trend. Is this the new sexual empowerment?
By Sarah Goldstein
August 17, 2006
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To pole dance, or not to pole dance: Is that the question? Readers respond to Christine Smallwood's "Girls Gone Wild."
October 7, 2005
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In an interview (with himself) the man who introduced us to the term "metrosexual" explains why it conquered the culture, bemoans his own "lesbosexual" style, and critiques "Queer Eye," Howard Dean and Schwarzenegger.
By Mark Simpson
January 5, 2004
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In this remarkable memoir, a former '70s teen "slut" looks back on the mysteries of adolescent sex and the female quest for freedom.
By Laura Miller
March 19, 2003
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Noelle Howey, author of "Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods -- My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine," discusses sexuality, angora and life with a transgender parent.
By Amy Benfer
July 3, 2002
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Readers respond to recent articles on molestation allegations, acceptable sexual behavior and the Christian way to handle exotic dancers.
May 24, 2002
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Right-wing moralizers wink at boys' sexual foibles -- it's unfettered female sexuality that they think is leading us into perdition.
By Lara Riscol
May 21, 2002
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Sexual rights activists are hoping that transgender beauty Amanda Milan, the victim of a shocking murder, did not die in vain.
By Nina Siegal
June 20, 2001
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By Camille Paglia
June 1, 2001
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A former sex columnist answers the most common masturbation questions and wonders why it's still taboo to talk about what we all do.
By Michael Castleman
May 23, 2001
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How the Web has changed access to sex information -- and the kind of advice people seek. Second of two parts.
By Michael Castleman
March 15, 2001
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Rebecca Chalker wants to return our attention to the part of a woman's body that's all about pleasure. Plus: A rant about "vagina night."
By Barbara Raab
March 5, 2001
The woman who made it good to be bad
The dirty girl
Searching for the perfect threesome
Sexual perversity in America
What the Pregnant Man didn't deliver
Sex scientists stumped by women
MetroDaddy speaks!
"The Only Girl in the Car" by Kathy Dobie
In search of her father's girlhood
Go out and get a piece, son!
The crying game
Solo pleasure
"So, what do you think, am I normal?"
The clit conspiracy
War Room
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald