Irin Carmon's posts

"Captured on our streets by a foreign lens," ran The Daily Mail headline, "shaming images that turned Britain into a…

Larry Flynt has placed ads in Texas asking, "Have you had a gay or straight sexual encounter with Governor Rick…

The facts: Roughly half of adult males in the US are infected with HPV. Some strains, passed along to women through…

Recently, I learned that someone had given a paper at MIT on Scott Baio's Twitter beef with this very site.

A prime job opens up, and the person who's discussed as an excellent choice happens to be on maternity leave for the…

Copyranter draws our attention to these ads out of Singapore in opposition to sex trafficking. (There's also one agai…

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman was invited to speak at St. Francis University — until the college…

"My hair is called an Afro," says Isis Brantley in the video above. The Dallas hairdresser hasn't cut her hair…

A study to be published in the Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care says that the standard days…

Sarah Palin still gets asked about running for president, and since she doesn't have to officially declare til the…

Los Angeles County once had 36 clinics testing and treating sexually transmitted infections. That was in 1996;…

According to news reports out of Saudi Arabia, Saudi women are outraged that the government plans to allow Moroccan…

Slutwalks started after a Toronto cop suggested women could avoid rape by not dressing like sluts. They went way…

Last night, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart won its ninth Emmy in a row for outstanding variety, music or comedy…

Here is a video of a man dressed like Spongebob Squarepants dancing on Hollywood boulevard — until he's beaten on…

Michele Bachmann is continuing to all-out make up stuff about the HPV vaccine, but she never said she's a scientist.…

A subway station I walked through last night was taken over by advertisements for NBC's fall lineup, dominated by…

The title of a new book about Barack Obama's presidency is Confidence Men. It suggests, among other revelations,…

An exasperated tweet, above, from a female tech reporter has sparked a debate about whether there's a pink collar…