Hot. That is the main word of warning I got before visiting Dubai, from guidebooks to friends, and heat is indeed something I encountered during my September vacation. While well-intentioned friends had warned me I needed to wear a headscarf and dress modestly, nowhere in my travels did I find...

Hot on the heels of the explosive Katie Roiphe Newsweek cover story examining women's sexual fantasies, New York Times bestselling author of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy E.L. James has launched her first official United States book tour, which takes her from Florida to Westchester,...

Prior to the airing of last weekend's Retraction episode of This American Life, the big story around Mike Daisey's monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was its release by Daisey and director Jean-Michele Gregory as a free download, available for others to perform...

I've met Valerie Frankel, author of the memoirs Thin is the New Happy and the new It's Hard Not to Hate You, several times, and from those interactions, would not describe her as a "hate-filled" person. Yet as she documents in It's Hard Not to Hate You, her...

Last week, renowned chef, TV personality and self-proclaimed Domestic Goddess Nigella Lawson appeared on the cover of free London weekly magazine Stylist in a close-up shot of her face dripping with caramel. The thick amber liquid drips down her forehead, along the hands clutching her cheeks, over her perfectly shadowed...

Dear The Daily Mail,

I understand that you need to sell newspapers, but I read your article on Monica Lewinsky twice and, after coming away with no new information about her each time, am puzzled over why you would print this. Is her single status really news?

While...

I didn't count how many times Kate Betts used the word "post-feminist" in her interesting new book, "Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style," but it was certainly enough to make me queasy the first time and full-on nauseated by the end -- and overall I...

Dear Diana,

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...