With increased expectations, high-cost proms have become the norm.

Christina Hoff Sommers skewers Carol Gilligan, Jane Fonda and their "girl crisis" rhetoric.

The yearning is real — but our first celebrity crushes teach key lessons about sexual attraction and heartache

She's her own boss at 19 and a wildly successful artist, but her songs keep her waiting around for Prince Charming

A church sign warns: "I kissed a girl and I liked it, then I went to Hell."

As the daughter of Hugh Hefner's personal doctor, Jennifer Saginor came of age in the sex-drenched world of drugs and celebrities at the Playboy Mansion. Now, she's trying to grow up.

Wendy Shalit: Stop pressuring young women to have sex!
Leora Tanenbaum: Every girl is a potential "slut."

Eighteen-year-old Matthew Limon is serving 17 years for having consensual oral sex with another boy. His case reveals our society's bigotry -- and our inability to think straight about teenage sexuality.

Girls and young women are tested for virginity in South Africa as part of an AIDS and pregnancy prevention program.

Why is TV so enamored of the "Golden Girls" archetypal quartet to explore female friendship?

How accurate is the Facebook movie's depiction of women as trophies in the world of Web 2.0? We asked the experts

My older sister wants to introduce the younger ones to much older men. Is this legal? Is it right?

Hands off Harry Potter! Plus: Good grief! Don't dis Charles Schulz, an American icon; no one's forcing third-world techies to come here

Prostitutes are getting younger every year, especially in the A-T-L; Bob Herbert tries to find out why.

When women, like Adria Richard, speak up, they risk the misogynist wrath of those who try to shut them down