Meg Charlton

Writer and producer living in Los Angeles

After the close-out of the aquatic events, and gain some perspective, it is hard to think of another major sporting event that has even come close to eliciting this degree of gleeful sexual energy, from either men or women.

Keli Goff

Author and Special Correspondent, TheRoot.com

I wish we lived in a world in which women didn't play into the most negative and cliche stereotype out there about us, and picking on the pretty girl because people like her for being pretty is embarrassing, not just to the women doing it but to all women.

Iris Krasnow

Author, 'The Secret Lives of Wives: Women Share What It Really Takes To Stay Married'

I am a journalist, not a preacher, and I'm not about to tell everyone to hold off on sex until wedding vows are exchanged. But I've come to believe as a longtime relationship writer that it's best to hold off on sex until it comes with love.

Carolyn Custis James

Author, 'Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women'

The so-called "virginity movement" is not nor should it be equated with Christianity. To do so sells the Gospel short and leads to all sorts of false notions of where young women find their true worth and what young Christian men should prize in them.

Nikki Stone

Olympic gold medalist and bestselling author

I applaud the Ryan Lochtes, Justin Gatlins and Lolo Joneses for never giving up. I congratulate their parents for letting them believe these Olympic "pipe dreams" are possible. And I thank all the critics for unknowingly pushing these athletes to prove you wrong.