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COLUMN By RICHARD WADE For Humanist Network News Sept. 1, 2010 You may send your questions for Richard to AskRichard@ca.rr.com. (Questions may be edited.)... Read More
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COLUMN By HEMANT MEHTA Adapted from "The Friendly Atheist." For Humanist Network News Sept. 1, 2010 A CNN article about how more teens are... Read More
The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New American Heartland
Sex sells. Or, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that sex sells things. The saturation of our society with sex and sexuality... Read More
Questions for Door Knockers
They’ve searched for you. They’ve come to your door and knocked. Oh, you might not have answered. Maybe you hid in your bedroom, or... Read More
Shifting Positions: Humanist Perspectives on Porn
Prior to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, pornographic material was kept private amid a culture that labeled it too risqué for the public... Read More
Atheism, Ethics, and Pornography: An Interview with Nina Hartley
Marie Hartman graduated with honors from San Francisco State University and is the author or coauthor of several books published by major publishing houses... Read More
Evolution and the Thong-Burqa Continuum
The “Thong Song,” a rap homage to butt-baring bikinis, was released in 1999, several years after I graduated from an ideologically feminist all-women’s college.... Read More
Liberté, Egalité—de Féministes! Revealing the Burqa as a Pro-Choice Issue
“Ban the burqa! Ban the burqa!” Across Western Europe this resounds as the rallying cry of the day among the public and politicians. At... Read More
Square One near Ground Zero
An earlier version of this article referred to the Cordoba House Initiative’s planned Islamic community center (also called Park51) in lower Manhattan as a... Read More
The Pill: Still Safe, Effective, and Threatening after All These Years
With the passing of the pill’s fiftieth birthday, much ink has been spilled over the effect oral contraception has had since its initial release... Read More
