It's just a penis, people. Americans are great at casting aspersions, but are we willing to look at our own lives? The question that's been swirling around my brain since Anthony's Weiner's package first appeared and disappeared on Twitter over Memorial Day weekend is this: why does it matter? Aside from...

Three years ago, when I first started the research for my recently published book "Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable" (Crown Publishing/Ten Speed Press, 2010), I was still planning to have 2.0 kids, au naturel. As a woman who often cries at the...

What's your number one resolution for 2011? If you answered, "getting more action," you're not only honest, you've come to the right post. Perhaps you're green, single, and hoping to hook up with someone on the same page. Whether you're looking to spice up your current relationship or start something...

Now that progressives (and fake Democrats) have been smashed to bits by an election won by corporate wolves in grassroots clothing, where do we go next? Perhaps not where we're expected to go. A lot of my friends, ones that care about human rights, animal rights, social and...

Upon the semi-official end of the hottest summer on record, it's time to start thinking about transitioning to a less steamy, but just as sexy season. Sometimes when you put on clothes, it makes what's underneath even more alluring. That's one of the reasons I'm so excited about the...

Russell Simmons, music mogul, entrepreneur, and vegan animal advocate will host the New York premiere of the independent feature film Bold Native, the first fiction film about the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a non-centralized group of animal liberators and economic saboteurs that the FBI...

The news that Flibanserin, marketed as the "female Viagra," has failed to do what its manufacturers promised isn't surprising. Even less surprising is that it is purported to cause a laundry list of side effects, including dizziness, anxiety, nausea and insomnia.

As I say in my recently published...

After a month-and-a-half of Top Hats, Top Kills, robots with saws and other absurdities, today the news is that the damaged riser pipe has been severed close to the well. They say that this is good news, but let's just wait a few days to be sure. How many...

Always spay and neuter your pets, dearies -- that goes without saying. You gotta love PETA for how far they're willing to go to spread their message (a great message that I fundamentally agree with). But now, according to Treehugger, they've gone and hired...