Award-winning writer Brian Alexander has been a contributing editor at Wired and Glamour magazines and has written for Esquire, The New York Times magazine, the Los Angeles Times magazine, Outside, Details, Self and many others. He is a frequent contributor to MSNBC.com where he also writes a column on American sex. He is the author of Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion, and America Unzipped: The Search for Sex and Satisfaction.