A SYTYCB entry In November, when news broke of Jerry Sandusky’s acts of sexual assault at Penn State, there was an outpouring from men across the country. Some scrambled to defend a program whose leaders had quietly turned away from the violence for years, others chewed over what their own hypothetical reactions might be to [...]

Last weekend, I was traveling back into New York by way of the West Side Highway when I passed this billboard: This ad is particularly insidious because parsing out its (many) missteps first requires that we tackle its problematic foundation: that sex work is not a legitimate occupation and that its illegitimacy permits us to freely [...]

Last weekend, I was traveling back into New York by way of the West Side Highway when I passed this billboard: This ad is particularly insidious because parsing out its (many) missteps first requires that we tackle its problematic foundation: that sex work is not a legitimate occupation and that its illegitimacy permits us to freely [...]

*Spoiler alert* I went on Friday night to see The Ides of March to get my requisite dose of dreamy Ryan Gosling and also in the hopes of seeing a smart political thriller. Instead, the film provided further confirmation that mainstream representations of female sexuality are still woefully out of touch with real women’s experiences with [...]