Last month, in the name of book promotion, I hopped in the shower, made out in the street, drank from a water fountain in Central Park, gyrated behind a curtain and flashed my underwear. What for? All to promote my latest anthology Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists--specifically,...

For the past four years, I've hosted In The Flesh Reading Series, a monthly reading dedicated to erotica and sex and held at a bar that's a former massage parlor called, appropriately, Happy Ending Lounge. When I started, I had no idea, frankly, what I was doing. There is...

When most people think of those suffering from eating disorders, they picture those with emaciated bodies, starving or puking, barely hanging on to their lives. Nicole Johns suffered severe damage to her body, including exercise-induced asthma, irregular heartbeat, and hypotension, and had to be hospitalized to be treated...while a size...

I've had my iPhone since early November, but just the other day finally added the New York Times application. How excited was I to be able to access the paper of record at the touch of a button? Very much so, and the first thing I clicked on was the...

Comedian Jon Friedman knows from rejection. He faced so many of them that he decided to turn them into something productive: The Rejection Show, a comedy show featuring all rejected or turned down materials, ranging from Saturday Night Live skits to game show audition tapes, failed customer service...

New York Times journalist Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a sex addict. That is a fact he openly discloses at the start of his excellent new book America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life. Now that I have your attention, I can also tell you that it was...

My name is Rachel, and I write about sex (among other topics). A lot of my writing is of the erotic variety, but what really gets me off, in the intellectual sense, is smart writing that treats sex with the respect it deserves. To that end, my latest anthology is...

I'm not going to tell you exactly how many people I've slept with, partly because I don't know, partly because I stopped caring long ago, and partly because it's none of your business. But I will tell you it's more than French First Lady Carla Bruni's reported number: 15. Way...

As soon as I got a copy of Kerry Cohen's Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity, in the mail, I knew it would be one I'd want to read. Because that's the kind of book I tend to fall for. What I didn't know was how much I'd relate...

New York-based writer and editor Louise Sloan didn't set out to be come a single mom, let alone a spokesperson for them. She knew she wanted kids at the age of 28, but her various partners weren't quite ready. When she hit 40, she knew it was time to proceed...

Judy McGuire is who I turn to when I am having relationship problems, and believe me, I have a lot of them. She has a way of giving advice that is never condescending, comes from the heart, and experience, and is actually helpful, which isn't anywhere as easy as it...

I wasn't surprised to read that newly hired and newly resigned New York Press sex columnist, former child actor Claudia Lonow, had plagiarized her writing from popular sex advice columnist Dan Savage. (Savage has no official comment at present.) When I read the incest question she answered...

Editor's Note: Dr. Mona Ackerman is on vacation. Her weekly column will return next Thursday.

When I was growing up, One Day at a Time was a TV show; now, it's a motto I try to live by. A catchphrase and major tenet of Alcoholics Anonymous, it's also provided...

When I was growing up, One Day at a Time was a TV show; now, it's a motto I try to live by. A catchphrase and major tenet of Alcoholics Anonyous, it's also provided for me a way of looking at life that recognizes that life goes on, whether...

Matt Titus's recent post "How to Be Faithful" struck a nerve with readers. And it's something I've thought a good deal about, so I decided to look not at monogamy as a goal, but as a social construct. First let me say that if you are in a monogamous...

Kevin Federline accused Britney Spears of being one, Gerald Ford thought Bill Clinton was one (and Clinton has had counseling for it), British comedian Russell Brand just came out as one, and Halle Berry's ex-husband Eric Benet sought treatment for it. But who's really...

As an author, perhaps I'm supposed to side with doom-filled writer Peter Sacks in the, "Isn't it awful how few people read and how America is becoming dumbed down?" conundrum, but while I can't quite imagine how one gets through a day, let alone a year, without reading, the rest...

Part two of my interview with filmmaker Jennifer Fox, director of the recent Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman. Read part 1 here.

You talk about investigating "this modern female life," so I'm curious how you felt about the contrast between your New York life and that...

Filmmaker Jennifer Fox's six-hour documentary Flying: Confessions of a Free Women, represents the first time the acclaimed director has allowed herself to step in front of the camera, baring (almost) all about her family, friendships, and romantic relationships. She's already detailed here at HuffPo her evolution as...

What I'm about to write I would've found obnoxious and pretentious mere months ago but lately seem to tell everyone who so much as asks me how I'm doing: I have a personal trainer. Even now, it sounds like saying I have a chauffeur or money manager or lawyer; there's...