At age 13, I solicited Professor Andrews. He accepted.

My husband teaches. My husband drinks. My son and I are sick of this. How can we move back to the U.S.?

Feeling unmoored after the loss of my primary parent, I found comfort in the works and lives of these icons

I only got a generic notice, as if I were just a bystander, or an acquaintance!

As a reality TV casting director, I'm used to dealing with colorful characters. But nothing prepared me for this

She devotes her life to a creep like Larry, but what about me? I'm the son who does everything I can to make her proud.

A new reality show proves the young fame-chaser can be just as boorish as hecklers who call her mom a "whore"

As a stay-at-home dad, I avoided that dumb parenting ritual of scheduled fun. Then I met a mom who forced my hand

On "Knock Loud" the Detroit garage band combines high-energy rock with lyrics that are disarmingly compassionate and profoundly desperate. Listen in.

We're both Latinas in our 40s. Yet she relates to my son in ways I couldn't dream of

Andie MacDowell and Warren Beatty play perverted games with hand puppets while the rest of the cast romps through this (supposedly) beleaguered farce.

Despite Cyberdildonics and tantric sex swings, the sex biz trade show Erotica USA is a decidedly unsexy event.

In a job where we passed around double-ended dildos and vibrating nipple clamps, I didn't want to seem uptight

The "Real Time" host takes Palin to task for implying that Obama was somehow to blame for her son's legal troubles

As the mom of a 4-year-old with Asperger's, I'm used to accusatory stares when he throws fits. Does it get easier?