Valentine's Day - Salon.com

Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day is about women's rights

Carol Lloyd — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

It may be a lame Hallmark holiday, but Feb. 14 is still a time when the fissures in gender relations get exposed in uncomfortable ways.

Of Valentine's jinxes and packaged gnocchi

By Rebecca Traister — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Ever since I dumped my eighth-grade boyfriend, I've been single on Feb. 14. I also couldn't make homemade pasta. Turns out, these things are related.

Ask Pablo

By Pablo Päster — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Should I buy flowers for Valentine's Day? Don't they bring environmental woe?

STD e-cards, sex beats romance and more

Catherine Price and Tracy Clark-Flory — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

V-day greeting: "I got screwed while screwing, you might have too."

Does Hallmark make virginity valentines?

Catherine Price — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Thai teens seem intent on losing their virginity on the 14th.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with a "Certificate of Inequality"!

Katharine Mieszkowski — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

On Feb. 14, same-sex couples make their love official -- just not with a marriage license.

Marching for "bread and roses" on Valentine's Day

Katharine Mieszkowski — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

400 Zimbabwean women -- several with infants -- are arrested during a protest.

Happy Valentine's Day ... boss!

Page Rockwell — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

In Japan, everyone's least favorite Hallmark holiday gets a corporate twist.

Ghost world

By Sarah Karnasiewicz — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

David Levithan's tale of a boy haunted by the memory of his girlfriend is the perfect Valentine's gift for your Goth preteen.

No s-e-x on Valentine's Day

Katharine Mieszkowski — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Decreeing a "Day of Purity," the right wants kids to celebrate not having sex on Feb. 14.

Material boys

Sarah Goldstein — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

More men are buying jewelry, spurring new lines in the industry.

The tyranny of Valentine's Day

By Charles Taylor — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Forget compulsory, greeting-card romance. This year write your own love story.

Loving a ghost

By A.R. Torres — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

I believed that if I could get through the trifecta of holidays after Sept. 11 without Eddie, I could get to the finish line of my grief. But I'd forgotten about Valentine's Day.

L'amour brings spelunker out of cave

By J.A. Getzlaff — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Valentine's Day lures him from the darkness.

In the Buffy

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Has Sarah Michelle Gellar become a vamp naysayer? Would a flying rock by any other name smell like perfume? In a world full of uncertainty, one thing's for sure ... three hours of Roberto Benigni at the Oscars are three hours too many.

Dear Jon; Love, Jon

By Jonathan Poletti — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

In which a young Romeo pens verses of true love -- to himself.

How do fools fall in love?

By Hank Hyena — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Give a Dane a Valentine and wait for an Easter egg -- Valentine's Day traditions from around the globe.

Placebo love

By Jonathon Keats — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Valentine's Day is as romantic as a trip to the pharmacy.

We won't get boobed again!

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Let's See Action! Who fans boo Cindy Margolis; Gwyneth banishes statuette; and -- horrors! -- the man behind the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync forms another Frankenband!

The frog prince of Bel-Air

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Batgirl caught in amphibian love nest! Plus: I cc NY? Carl Swanson e-goofs, Toby Young attacks. And: Hillary is just so dateable.com!

Dr. Block's little house of sexual horrors

By Carol Lloyd — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

A grotesque L.A. event proves that when it comes to being unsexy, it's really hard to beat sex.

The Awful Truth

By Cintra Wilson — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:00 PST

Happy Valentine's Day. Now shut up and dig your trench.