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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Delaying Puberty With the Help of the State
Earlier this month, Oregon became the first in the country to offer puberty-suppressing drugs to transgender teens on its Medicaid plan.
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Jose Manuel Erre/Flickr 'I Was Not Taught About Consent'
"I usually felt terrified and paralyzed during sex," a woman writes of her dating life, "but I had no idea how to communicate that fact to anyone."
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Ioan Sameli/Flickr The Art War Before Gamergate
Before diehard defenders of the pulpy mainstream trolled the Internet, they trolled comic books.
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Kate/Flickr Jane Austen on Men Who Refuse to Hear No
A plea for "the compliment of being believed sincere."
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Russell Boyce/Reuters The Traffic Laws of Sexual Culture
Will affirmative consent make women more comfortable displaying a green light? Several readers think so.
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CBS Alicia in Charge: The Good Wife Comes Full Circle
As its protagonist wrests control from the men in her life, the show's never been better.
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outc/Shutterstock/The Atlantic Men Had Half a Million More Vasectomies During the Recession
New research finds a correlation between the down economy and higher numbers of the surgery.
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Beck Diefenbach/Reuters Why One Male College Student Abandoned Affirmative Consent
A letter from a recent graduate who takes issue with California's new sexual-assault law
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Seth Wenig/AP A Brief (and Recent) History of Sexism in Tennis
A Russian tennis official referred to the Williams "brothers." He's now in tennis purgatory and $25,000 poorer.
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Andrew Medichini/AP The Vatican's Still-Tepid Support for Gays and Divorcees
A much-discussed report from the Catholic Church's synod on the family turned out to be very different in its final form.
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Mark Anderson/Flickr The Free-Love Experiment That Created Wonder Woman
The polyamorous "sex cult" conceived by the comics' founder wasn't exactly feminist, but it was built on women-empowering, pro-queer ideals.
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Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters Battle of the Prices: Is It Ever Fair to Charge One Sex More?
On the common practice of charging women more for haircuts and men more for admission to certain nightclubs
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Phil Roeder/Flickr Sex and the Class of 2020: How Will Hookups Change?
The near future as imagined by observers of California's new affirmative-consent law.
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Job Requirements: 'Good Feet, Eyesight, and a Trim Figure'
Ah, the good old days, as viewed through 1950s help-wanted ads
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Jim Young/Reuters How the 'Fundamental Right' to Abortion Faded Away
Under the standard set by Roe v. Wade, there would be no question that a controversial Texas abortion law was invalid. What happened?
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters An Appalling Case for Affirmative-Consent Laws
Ezra Klein expresses hope for "a haze of fear and confusion" on college campuses and "a cold spike of fear" in college men.
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Adam Hunger/Reuters Did Harvard Go Too Far?
A collection of the university's law school professors say the school's new sexual harassment policies "lack the most basic elements of fairness and due process."
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HBO No, Carrie Bradshaw Was Not 'Such a Whore'
The actor who played Sex and the City's Mr. Big has joined an old, ugly tradition: slut shaming.
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Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr The Catholic Church Explains Sexual Mores—With Economics
A new report from the Vatican softens its rhetoric on homosexuality, divorce, and pre-marital sex, arguing that they are shaped by financial instability. What does this mean?
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Mario Anzuoni/Reuters The Saddest Thing About the Kesha/Dr. Luke Lawsuit
It's how familiar it all is.
