Researchers have found genes that appear to trigger the onset of menstruation. Can we stop freaking out about girls' bodies gone wild now?

I gave birth at home and breastfed. My mom was drugged up and never lactated. Which one of us got the better deal?

A book of starlet glam shots raises questions like: Was it bad choices or bad luck that kept Sharon Stone from ruling Hollywood after "Basic Instinct"?

Mount Holyoke girls learn how to bump and grind from a tenured professor.

These four new novels by and about women (and one not-so-new one) may be riding the chick-lit publishing craze. But they're also good enough to bust that dismissive genre label wide open.

What do eBay's Meg Whitman and Apple's iBook have in common? Could it be sexist journalism?

For his latest book project, photographer Dave Naz went to Ross and bought lots of women's cotton underpants.

"True feminists can change their own damn light bulbs." Readers respond to Ayelet Waldman's column about the division of domestic labor.

Kids -- and their parents -- need to tackle taboos, says psychiatrist Lynn Ponton.

My adopted sons are from very different cultures -- but when it comes to one subject, all teen boys think alike

This family-friendly event features teenagers with fake bellies and signs reading, "Sluts missed sex ed."

I thought I could quit any time, but the ladies of the Diapering Board had me in their thrall.

Hey, guys: Are adult films making you bad at sex?

Hamish was there for the thrills and the spills, a devoted d-man until the end.

The New York Times puts the "trick" in "trick or treat" -- for the second time this week!