I am grateful for receiving this honor as Humanist Heroine. I’m now in my eighties so I’m also just grateful for being here and for my friends who are here. Now that I am in... Read More

Prior to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, pornographic material was kept private amid a culture that labeled it too risqué for the public eye. With the mass production of magazines like Playboy and Penthouse,... Read More

Marie Hartman graduated with honors from San Francisco State University and is the author or coauthor of several books published by major publishing houses under her stage name, Nina Hartley. She is also the star... Read More

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. Still, I can imagine the predictable, feminist reaction it would have... Read More

“Ban the burqa! Ban the burqa!” Across Western Europe this resounds as the rallying cry of the day among the public and politicians. At least Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and the United Kingdom... Read More

On Friday, May 27, 2016, President Obama will become the first U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, Japan, site of the 1945 atomic bombing that remains controversial to this day. While President Obama has indicated he... Read More

Skeptics sometimes frame the science versus religion debate as one of knowledge and enlightenment versus ignorance and superstition. This framing oversimplifies the problem in a number of ways. It leaves the impression that worldviews rejecting... Read More