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Miss Piggy, Socialism & White Boys: A Story of Racialized Love & Striving for Authenticity

Navigating politics, identity and vaginas.

Veil Ban Proposal Risks Alienating French Muslims

A French Parliamentary panel's proposal to ban some Muslim veils ignores women's agency and risks alienating French Muslims

Few people know of the long-standing traditions of sexual mysticism in the West. These traditions, unlike Hindu and Buddhist forms of Tantra, which were often distorted, commodified, and trivialized upon transmission to the modern West, have remained largely untouched. This is because they were entirely unknown.

Crisis in the Catholic Church

The sexual abuse of children by priests has been called the “greatest crisis Catholicism has faced since the reformation.” The prevalence of clergy sexual abuse and its shocking cover-up by church officials is by now well known. Less well understood, however, is the crucial role played by civil lawsuits in bringing the scandal to light,

Circumcision

I hate most pork. Roast it, glaze it, do what you will, pig rarely sings to me like a dead chicken does. But pass me a strip of bacon and I’ll promise you the world. Seventeen years of Hebrew day school can only accomplish so much. Welcome to modern day Jewery; not so much a state of being as it is a state of mind. Or as the ultra orthodox

Shame, sex, and South Park farts

Everyone's felt the sting of shame. Consciously or not, shame regulates our behavior and even our opinions. Sexual shame, in particular, functions as a political strategy (remember the impeachment trial?), religious imperative (think ex-gay ministries and virgin pledges), and mechanism for social control (consider the time when women were the

Mothers' Days

Jacqueline Taylor, the dean of DePaul University’s College of Communications, has written a new memoir. Waiting for the Call recounts her journey from the daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher to lesbian mother of two girls, whom she adopted with her partner Carol. American Sexuality: In writing your memoir, what section was

What My Parents Did and Did Not Teach Me

One day while I was at work, a co-worker told me, “Hey Mari, yesterday we came to the conclusion that you are the biggest paisa of the bunch.” After hearing this, I stood there with a blank look on my face and felt the blood rushing to my head. My pale skin started turning red and I was at a loss of words. I was offended, extremely

Kissing and Telling

Tantric sex in its South Asian contexts

Straight to Jesus

On a New Years Eve a few years ago, men between the ages of twenty and forty-five arrived from all over the country to begin a residential program at an ex-gay ministry in San Rafael, California called New Hope. Though the men were strangers, they spent the holiday cooking and praying together. In the past, these same men might have celebrated

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