Tag: sex
What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of...
Joel Christensen, Brandeis University
Each Valentine’s Day, when I see images of the chubby winged god Cupid taking aim...
Not everyone is male or female – the growing controversy over...
Carl Streed Jr, Boston University and Frances Grimstad, Harvard University
Check out your birth certificate and surely you’ll see...
‘Sex addiction’ isn’t a justification for killing, or really an addiction...
Joshua B. Grubbs, Bowling Green State University
A 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different spas...
Polyamorous relationships under severe strain during the pandemic
Riki Thompson, University of Washington
A few years ago I started conducting interviews with over 100 people about their...
In ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and beyond, chess holds up a mirror...
Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at...
What the Falwell saga tells us about evangelicals and gender roles
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University
Jerry Falwell Jr. may well be wishing that a photo with his underwear showing and his arm around the waist...
The white supremacist origins of modern marriage advice
Jane Ward, University of California, Riverside
When I was conducting research for my new book on the destructive aspects of modern heterosexual relationships, I started...
The belief that demons have sex with humans runs deep in...
Cavan W. Concannon, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Houston physician and pastor Stella Immanuel – described as “spectacular”...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
