The platforms of both major parties are out. When it comes to sex, both are bad. So listen up, Dems and GOPers, here’s the sexual health plank you desperately need. Presidential aspirants, steal this material... Read More

This article first appeared in Patheos on September 02, 2012. Popular bloggers such as Jen McCreight and Greta Christina are vocal proponents of a more feminist-oriented atheism. While a few see those involved in this... Read More

This article was first published online in Psychology Today. It might be argued that many—if not most—of your sexual preferences are societally or culturally determined. But Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, the authors of A... Read More

He drew a circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him in. --Edwin Markham In prior... Read More

High divorce rates. Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Abortion. The world is in bad shape, and the sorry state of affairs can be traced to one invention: birth control. If we didn’t have to fuss with... Read More

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn," Gore Vidal famously said. I came across the quote in his Los Angeles Times obituary. It wasn’t the first... Read More

At $7 billion, the discovery was a bargain. The money went mostly to building and staffing the world’s most complex machine, buried deep beneath the French-Swiss border at Geneva. The discovery was actually an affirmation... Read More