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December 9, 2013
Diane Mehta
New Feminist Erotic Women’s Lit Is Not as Subversive As It Thinks
November 28, 2013
Laurie Penny
In Defense of Bad Sex Writing
November 20, 2013
Andy Isaacson
Coming Soon to Your Bedroom: Beef-Tendon Condoms
Bill Gates is paying big for better contraception. Here's what scientists came up with
November 16, 2013
Mark Oppenheimer
The Zen Buddhist Who Preyed on His Upper East Side Students
November 1, 2013
Jane Shilling
The New Sexual Revolution: Not Having Sex
October 29, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
Big Mother Is Watching You
Technology now lets you spy on your kids all the time. Why you shouldn't.
October 10, 2013
Julia Ioffe
This Russian Architect's Scale Model Was Impressive. Then They Noticed the Couple Having Sex.
October 7, 2013
The New Republic Staff
The New Republic Sex Issue
No, we haven't published one. But if we did...
October 7, 2013
Laura Bennett
What Happens When the NYT Book Review Does a Sex Issue: 'I Much Prefer Breasts to Heaving Mounds.'
August 14, 2013
Paul Berman
A Pop Star Is Dead, But Her Sexiness Is Immortal
August 7, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Don't Be Seduced By This French Author's Argument Against Sex
July 23, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Anthony Weiner Makes the New York Times Look Silly
July 16, 2013
Marc Tracy
Not All College Men Are Sex-Crazed
July 15, 2013
Jordan Larson
The Other Problem with the Rise of Hookup Culture
July 4, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
Does a Popular Form of In Vitro Fertilization Cause Autism?
June 16, 2013
Laura Bennett
Betty White Is Not a Sex Machine
Our culture’s cruel obsession with dirty old women
February 27, 2013
Hadley Freeman
Sexyism
Is Fourth-Wave Feminism All About Boobs and Beauty?
February 27, 2013
Marin Cogan
House of Cads
The psycho-sexual ordeal of reporting in Washington
February 26, 2013
Noreen Malone
What We Mean When We Say “Bids Wanted in Competition.”
February 8, 2013
Sam Lipsyte
How to Write About Sex
The awkward art of the smitten word

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