When I hear calls to "divest" personally from straight Black men, I think about the lessons I learned as a boy

HBO\'s new show has rightly become a generational event. It\'s just as funny, smart and authentic as we\'d hoped

Letter from Tokyo: Dave McCombs reports that Japan's changing fortunes have reached as far as the sex industry, altering the long-standing relationship between commercial sex and the salaryman.

The author of young-adult memoir "Everything Sucks" talks about drugs, anorexia and why "Gossip Girl" gets it wrong

In Zambia, some men's thoughts turn lightly to ... Fido.

Belly dancing is deemed pornographic by Egyptians, but more foreign women are taking up the art.

The comedian and author of a new memoir talks about why the world doesn't need "another hot take on Kanye"

Afraid he'd blow it, my ex-husband didn't want to coach our daughter. He changed his mind -- and we all won.

A new report indicates that young women are being neglected in efforts to eradicate the "school-to-prison pipeline"

Newsweek (once again) discovers that the girls are not all right.

It was a minor slip-up. But it changed her life in an instant

A frat flyer featuring naked women contributes to rape culture and objectification, and students are fighting back

"It must be nice to wait tables," an MFA student said to me one day. "You don’t have to think"

A program for first-time johns lets offenders off the hook in exchange for their attendance at a daylong session taught by ex-hookers.

Girls would "feel confident and worthy to see a strong character that looks like them," wrote Jewel Moore