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Sexual healing
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Surgeon General David Satcher issues a clear-eyed report on sex -- and perhaps signs his own political death warrant in the process.
A call to yawns
Michael Castleman
Dr. Satcher was brave to release a report that says abstinence isn't everything, but it's up to us to change the culture.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Glen Helfand
The artist's early self-portraits weren't just raunchy and masturbatory -- they presaged his beautiful and notorious future.
Depression mania!
Maria Russo
Why has a cultural cottage industry sprung up around the most isolating of illnesses?
Still taking care of business
Mike Batistick
"The universe's, the galaxy's, the planet's and the world's ultimate Elvis fan" spends every minute of every day filling Graceland Too with -- with what?
Chapter 2: Friday, Sept. 29
Alfred Alcorn
In which Worried is contacted and our victims are imagined as cartoonishly Larsonesque sexual monsters.
Shadowing Stephen
Deborah Digges
Under the cover of night, I follow my son through the streets, into the subway, across the viaduct, until we come to the place spray-painted with elegies for dead friends.
“I Only Say This Because I Love You” by Deborah Tannen
Maria Russo
The author of "You Just Don't Understand" turns her eagle eye on the stinging, maddening, sneaky ways that family members communicate.
High-concept haute couture
Janelle Brown
Luxury retailers are doing their best to turn their stores into theme parks, messy apartments or the Museum of Modern Art. But will anyone buy the clothes?
Salon recommends
Salon Staff
A guide to the mythological roots of the Harry Potter books, an inside look at the powerful family behind the New York Times and more.
Why gays shouldn’t serve
David Horowitz
There really is a valid military argument against military inclusion, but the forces of political correctness won't allow it to be heard.
Believing in fairy tales
Cynthia Gralla
I was trained in the art of poignant, unrequited desire. Fourth in a series.
A deadly taboo
Alicia Montgomery
Is homophobia in the black community fanning the flames of HIV infection among African-Americans, the hardest-hit population outside sub-Saharan Africa?
High noon for the morning-after pill
Janelle Brown
With the medical establishment pushing to make it available over the counter, and anti-abortion groups fighting to stop it, little-known emergency contraception could be the next battle in the reproductive wars.
The crying game
Nina Siegal
Sexual rights activists are hoping that transgender beauty Amanda Milan, the victim of a shocking murder, did not die in vain.
Raving lunacy
Janelle Brown
Officials are cracking down on dance clubs that provide health information about recreational drugs. They may shut down some raves, but kids will die.
“The Collected Stories of Richard Yates”
Maria Russo
The bard of disintegrating marriages and deluded artists is enjoying a posthumous boom with a masterly story collection.
Destiny’s double dribble
Eric Boehlert
What happens when a television network tries to entertain an arena full of basketball fans with platinum pop groups? The fans bite back.
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Salon Staff
An erotica maven's frank take on getting published, a hilarious anti-boomer diatribe and more.
The Disneyland disco
Andrew Vontz
In pursuit of the mega Mickey Mouse rave, a handful of candy ravers aim to make the Happiest Place on Earth just a little bit happier.
The AIDS-drug warrior
Daryl Lindsey
Activist Jamie Love says pharmaceutical companies
must be forced to yield their patents to save hundreds of thousands
of lives. Is he a visionary -- or a dangerous radical?
“Songcatcher”
Charles Taylor
Them mountain people sure are quaint! A citified scholar condescends to rural folk in Maggie Greenwald's patronizing drama.
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