Crime
Pop Culture
Love & Sex in YA Lit: THE BAD

Our friends, Em & Nora (who we like to call “Em & No”), recently launched a site for grown-ups about young adult literature called LoveYALit.com*, since (according to the New York Times) more and more people 18-and-over are enjoying books originally intended for the 18-and-under set. Of course, books about teens, the most hormonal among […]

Personal Essays
Confession: The Top 10 Reasons I Hate American Apparel

photo by acidcookie Our contributor Abby Spector, who is majoring in Feminine/Gender/Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, has a confession to make: Here are the top 10 reasons I love to hate (and hate to love) American Apparel: The newest line looks like something out of my grandmother’s closet. The models, sales people, and those who […]

News
A Catholic Church Sex Scandal Round-Up

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Pope Opera www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party During the Pope’s visit to Malta this past weekend, he visited with abuse victims, paying a lot of lip service to “healing” and “investigations.” Yeah right! He also commended Malta for keeping […]

Pop Culture
Found: Funny Bathroom Placard

You don’t become rich writing about sex, but you do occasionally get taken out to fancy lunches at posh spots by editors and publishers with nice expense accounts. So we were lucky enough to find ourselves at the rooftop pool of the Soho House, that private club in NYC (the one Samantha sneaks into in […]

Sexual Health
Dr. George Tiller in Doc "What's the Matter with Kansas?"

Salon.com has an extended scene from the forthcoming documentary “What’s the Matter With Kansas?“, based on Thomas Frank’s bestselling book of the same title about the Right Wing’s rise in the once-liberal state. It features Dr. George Tiller, the Wichita-based abortion provider who was gunned down last Sunday while attending church. The clip touches on […]