Erika Christakis

What's more noxious: a man spanking his 20-month-old child or bathing with her? Consider this: A gay single father has recently been reunited with his twin toddlers after being falsely accused, a year ago, of sexually abusing them. The father, a professional photographer, took many beautiful photos of...

The Hypocrisy of Breastfeeding Shamers: Where's the Outrage Over Adult 'Oral Fixations'?

There's a lot of drama going on at TIME about 'extended' breastfeeding and whether the cover photo of a gorgeous blond mother nursing a preschooler was such a great idea. But the extensive commentary has missed...

Did you hear the story of the sex columnist who never had an orgasm? True story: Tracy Clark-Flory, sex writer for Salon.com and an enthusiastic defender of casual sex and "hookup culture," has just written here that she faked orgasms for more than...

After the still-human Bella and her vampire super-hero consummate their marriage in the Twilight saga, there's a briefly happy pause before a striking change of tone from 1950s-style romance to full-on horror. This shift would be a jolt to any mainstream movie but especially so for a girl's film, and...

When we last saw Bella, in the Twilight series, her single-minded ambition was eternal life with Edward Cullen. Even for young readers, her fixation feels a bit... limiting. I could handle the teen marriage, but why couldn't she just go to Dartmouth, already, and have her hybrid vamp-baby later? Before...

O, wherefore art thou, Gregory Peck? On the 50^th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird's release, it's worth pausing for a moment of gratitude for the stalwart romantic movie hero. I can't be the only woman who is tired of the parched landscape of bumbling man-children in American films. The...

We have fair trade coffee and humanely raised pork. So why can't we create a market for ethically sourced pornography? A couple of decades ago, people didn't give much thought to their food's provenance. We didn't care about carbon footprints or the working conditions of the poor Africans who sold...