Not everyone who showed up at the sex activists' conference was pierced, tattooed, and draped in leather. It was an edgy assembly for sure, but many of the men and women making their way to workshops at the recent CatalystCon East sported a classic, casual style.

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My grandma had bat wing arms. Her arm jiggle fascinated us kids. My cousin Rachel would reach across Granny's corset-clad girth, tap the wrinkled drape of skin and shriek with half-delight, half-horror as the bat wing came to life. Granny endured this assault with what seemed like good humor, and...

When did feminism stop being about smashing through the glass ceiling and start being about how smashing we look now that we are aging?

The founding feminists were more into good jobs than good genes. Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan lit a torch and led millions of...

It was once village matchmakers who joined marriageable folk, and sometimes they joined people whose temperaments were at odds. Couples were expected to cope with their incompatibilities and grow closer -- or not -- with the passage of time.

Long-term character contouring is not for you. You crave a...

The Web is having a conversation about senior sex, and it's a mixed bag of disgust, defensiveness, zealotry, and hope.

For the young, sex over 60 is comedy tinged with embarrassment. They view with alarm parents' and grandparents' forays into the erotic, and speak of it in cartoon terms....

A few days before my 38th birthday, my best friend and I were enjoying a gossip session on her backyard terrace. We sipped wine, nibbled on cheese and she told me about her father's latest fight with his live-in girlfriend. He was 78, she was 73.

"This might be it,"...