Clitoraid, an organization that has devoted six years to humanitarian work such as repairing clitorises that have been harmed by genital mutilation, is happy to announce, its "first annual International Clitoris Awareness Week, May 6 to May 12," said Nadine Gary, Clitoraid spokesperson. She continues, "This year, we'll...

At the turn of each season, I try to clear out the old, make room for the new. Readers, as I usually write about sex, you're probably thinking I'm talking about men. But I'm talking about fashion. OK, and I'm talking about men as well. There comes that day when...

Why do we love to immortalize the grotesque?

Like many of us fascinated with scandal, I eagerly awaited last night's controversial premiere of Phil Spector, an HBO film written and directed by David Mamet, starring Al Pacino (as Spector) and Helen...

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The other night I had a fantasy that I was taking on two men at once. There was no kissing involved, no emotional connection, and in...

For years women in their 30s been told that this is the decade we're going to have mind-blowing, multi-orgasmic, hair-pulling sex. I, as a woman in my 30s, think that's tremendous pressure (and not the good kind) to face between the sheets. Plus, HuffPost Women's Emma Gray points out that...

I have a confession: I suffer from chronic depression. This is hardly newsworthy. In fact, I'd say if I were a totally happy, well-adjusted, cosmopolitan writer --THAT would be newsworthy. So it was with shock that I found myself laughing this morning when I busted the seams of my jeans....

It was around 2005. For some reason -- perhaps it was the elusive guy I was living with at the time; perhaps it was the industrial loft we resided in; perhaps it was the powerlessness I felt while accumulating massive debt in grad school -- I was obsessed with cultivating...

On ne décide pas de devenir une femme adultère, du moins ce n'était pas mon cas. Et ce mot, "adultère" semble droit sorti d'un livre d'Hawthorn. Et pourtant, après la démission de la CIA de David Petraeus avant-hier, je me suis demandé si cela n'avait pas à voir...

One does not set out to be an adulteress, at least I didn't. And that word: "Adulteress," it sounds so Hawthornian. Yet, in light of David Petraeus' resignation from the CIA yesterday, it makes me wonder if we're not such a far cry from Hester and her Puritanical persecutors. Citing...

Four years ago, I stood for three hours with my then-partner, thrilled to be voting for a candidate who ran on a platform of HOPE. It was one of the many things we did together in the public school in our neighborhood, which became a flea market on weekends that...

Tatas, funbags, cans, mosquito bites, melons, hotcakes, nibs, Lactoids. These are just a few "funny" nicknames for what seem to be a locus (loci) of both power and angst for women: breasts. As Breast Cancer Awareness Month winds down, I've been thinking, it's pretty un-PC to make boobie jokes in...

It's not often that one gets to spend an evening with the "Queen of Burlesque," Dita Von Teese, but the other night at La Maison Cointreau, a nineteenth-century townhouse in Greenwich Village that boasts French boudoirs, lavish libraries and a cocktail lab reminiscent of the apothecary of yesteryear,...

Looking back on my dating past, I must admit, some of my fondest and most exciting romantic moments occurred before I even knew what true romance was. The time from 11 to 14 holds many treasured memories of discovering the allure of boys. Sure, the title of my essay is...

Comme toute personne devenue addict à la série Revenge sur ABC le sait désormais, la vengeance se situe à la frontière entre désir et violence (physique ou autre). La définition de la "vengeance" est l'opportunité d'obtenir ce qu'on veut à travers la revanche. Et parfois, nous allons chercher...

As anyone who has become addicted to ABC's hit melodrama "Revenge" now knows, vengeance walks the fine line between desire and violence (physical or other). The definition of "revenge" is the opportunity to gain satisfaction through retaliation. And in some cases, we seek our revenge in bed.

I have a feeling this story isn't going to win me any popularity contests. It certainly doesn't reflect one of my finer moments as friend, ex-girlfriend, or person with a decent sense of compassion and empathy. In fact, what I did was downright ugly. It was also totally hot. That's...

Écrire au sujet de la sexualité a ses avantages. Lorsque j'assiste à des réceptions ou des 5 à 7, les gens me confient volontiers leurs secrets intimes. L'information qui suit, par exemple, m'a été très utile, en plus d'être particulièrement décoiffante.

« L'autre jour, j'ai eu mon premier orgasme des...

One of the perks of writing about sex is that when you disclose this information at cocktail parties, people tend to confess scandalous tidbits, and in this case, very useful information. Still, this one was a show-stopper.

"The other day, I had my first breast orgasm."

I looked...

My friend Marie just celebrated her 30th birthday, and she invited me to drinks under the pretense that we were toasting the closing of her new Brooklyn Heights condo. Marie is a savvy, single New York woman who works as a social worker specializing in child development. Turns out, what...

So you haven't spent the summer sunning at champagne fueled yacht parties like you'd hoped. Looks like Greek isle hopping isn't in fact going to happen, which means that hypothetical tryst with a man named Stephanos probably won't either.

All is not lost. Labor Day is still two whole...