I picked up Real Sex just after moving into my new condo. I read it incessantly on the porch swing. I live on the first floor of a six-flat, so my brand new neighbors kept walking by on their way to the dumpster, eyeing me with curiosity as I slipped the book under my leg. [...]

The New York Times recently featured a curious article about French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In contrast to his more intellectual predecessors, he doesn’t dwell in the abstract realm of ideology. He’s concerned about the economy and has been nudging the French to “Work more and think less.” “How absurd to say that we should think [...]

REVIEW OF: Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self by Joseph E. Davis (University of Chicago Press, 312 pages, $27.50) “I was not sexually abused. Yet I was sexually abused,” Ellen Bass wrote in an anthology of survivor accounts called I Never Told Anyone. “We were all sexually abused. The images and attitudes, [...]

While pondering this article, I called a friend to pick her brain about crushes. She was asking me constructive questions, helping me to flesh out my idea, when she asked me this question: “Do crushes happen more often during Lent?” Suddenly I realized that her questions were not entirely rooted in altruism. I sensed that [...]

Following the publication of ” A Season of Celibacy”, I received nearly 50 emails from readers who wanted to share their experiences and ask questions. They asked me to get more specific about what a celibate season looks like. Specifically, they wanted to know how to make sense of their sexuality during that challenging time. [...]