Each year, I say I want only token gifts. It's part of becoming the dad I never had

The first time I went on a diet, I was 11. "Getting a little pudgy," my mom teased. My weight became my life

There’s no excuse for the irreparable harm and trauma Hammer has been accused of inflicting

I've done well in spite of her -- but how can I protect my younger sister?

Freud called them the royal road to the unconscious. A hundred years later, the debate over what they mean goes on.

Traveling solo in Spain, writer Barry Yeoman is befriended by a group of macho local males. Can he tell them he is gay and still keep their friendship?

Anti-circumcision activists on the explosive results of "tugging" their ways to new penises -- and bodily autonomy

The reverend who thinks gays should be stoned is back

Sharon Stone, star of "All I Wish," never believed all those people insisting that they believed in marriage

When I found out I was having a boy, I wondered: How can a feminist raise a man without becoming a hypocrite or a castrator?

In his affecting new book, Roth's young hero abandons his Jewish upbringing for life in small town Ohio.

I find our arrangement quite suitable, but his two teenage sons are being very rude about it.

Co-director Derik Murray spoke to Salon about his love letter to the late great comedy star

The cheesy '80s classic stands the test of time because it tells the oldest story there is: The hero’s journey

Harvard psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint says that blame for the schoolyard murders ultimately lies with Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, but our violent society isn't making it easy to be a kid.