Politics

An unfinished, scattered meditation on sex trafficking — what I know, what I don’t, and the joyless workplaces that aren’t limited to the sex industry.

I’m cynical about politics, but net neutrality brings out the idealist in me. Also, there are porn stars.

James Comey thinks there should be no zone free from the eyes of law enforcement. As a slutty, polyamorous sex blogger, I have some thoughts about that.

Suspicious packages, furtive groping, and the politics of fear on a crowded train.

Doug Gansler’s defense of letting his son’s underage party rage on reveals something far worse than bad parenting: the “boys will be boys” logic that makes girls responsible for not getting raped and boys blameless for raping them.

On secrecy, privacy, parental spying, and Edward Snowden.

Politics, sex, sexting, and the question of just how fond of one’s penis is too fond.

Anthony Weiner’s problem wasn’t his cock. It was that nobody in Congress liked him.

If abortion is murder, rape and incest exceptions reveal what you’re really after: punishing women for having sex.

I propose a new definition for an old word.