Sex

Inspired by History, a Play Calls Us to Heed Enslaved Women’s Work—and Pain

Laura Newman

Charly Evon Simpson's play reframes one of medicine's most wrenching origin stories: how the father of modern gynecology operated on enslaved women and used them as his nurse assistants.

Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ to Begin in 60 Days as Democrats Question Policy’s Legality

Ally Boguhn

Reproductive health and rights advocates have already moved to ensure the domestic gag rule is dead on arrival.

Colorado Republican Doesn’t Want Kids to Know About Consent

Jason Salzman

Conservatives are fighting a comprehensive sex ed bill, as one GOP lawmaker said her constituents "don't want to be told" what consent means in sexual relationships.

This Week in Sex: The Penis Problems Edition

Martha Kempner

Having a curved penis is no laughing matter for people with Peyronie's disease. And you decide if a woman who disses her husband's penis on Reddit is an asshole—or a troll.

With Methodist LGBTQ Vote and GOP Support for Trump, White Protestantism Has Hit Bottom

Peter Laarman

But by now it is painfully clear that far too many white Protestants are willing to throw both law and reason overboard for the sake of preserving straight white male supremacy.

Women Are Not the Only Ones Who Get Abortions

s.e. smith

The crusade against abortion in the United States is absolutely designed to target cis women. But people across the gender spectrum need abortion care.

For LGBTQ People Christian Schools Can Be Traumatizing

Tris Mamone

#ExposeChristianSchools was launched shortly after it was reported that Karen Pence was teaching at a Christian school that excludes LGBTQ students and teachers. It quickly went viral with many sharing their own stories of surviving Christian schooling.

Trump’s Family Planning Rules Are Class Warfare. States Are Ready to Stop Them.

Nicole Knight

The Trump rules banning abortion referrals at Title X-funded clinics, similar to a Reagan-era policy, "mandates discrimination" and could meet legal challenges from states.

Rome Has Spoken and Rome Is Finished: The Vatican’s Sexual Abuse Summit ‘Failed Miserably’

Mary Hunt

The recently concluded Vatican summit on sexual abuse in the church was framed in the same old top-down way that's at the heart of the problem. Lay people, both women and men, experts in the law, psychology, and theology were excluded. What could be more wrong with this picture?

Where Is American Christian Outrage on Russia’s Treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

Rebecca Moore

It seems like American Christians might be alarmed to learn that the nation they hold in regard is confiscating Bibles, criminalizing evangelization, and torturing believers.