In December 1953, Hugh Hefner launched the inaugural issue of Playboy, featuring unlicensed nudes of Marilyn Monroe. The magazine was an instant hit, quickly selling out of its print run…
sex & gender
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(As featured in the Guardian)
When the floodgates of #MeToo opened in 2017, the conversation about sexual harassment and assault quickly detonated into a broader discussion of “bad dates”…
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Many of the stories in Emma Cline’s provocatively titled short-story collection feature older men whose stars are fading, numbing themselves from the world’s increasing indifference to their influence with booze, pills…
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Since Donald Trump ascended to the Oval Office in spite of his crude “locker-room talk”, masculinity has been a hot topic. As three new books demonstrate, the causes and consequences…
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I was never one to stage weddings in the Barbie Dream House, preferring to play with my Star Wars figures and GI Joes. It surprised everyone, then, when I was…
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The essayist Rebecca Solnit opens her memoir with an emblematic image: a picture of her writing desk, a dainty Victorian vanity given to her by a friend who nearly bled to…