One of the first people you encounter upon entering The Basement is a girl in dirty pajamas with bloody bandages over…
A study of nearly 4,000 Pennsylvania women suggests that domestic abuse can have a long-term and profoundly destructive…
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In a wonderful article called It’s Only a Penis, anthropologist Christine Helliwell talks of how her time with the…
Sorry, trend-piece writers, you sweet and clueless scribes: it's really, really time to cast aside your moral panic and…
Hillary Clinton has long been a role model for women in male-dominated fields, but a new study proves that her status…
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Like Love Potion no. 9, a decent film adaptation of Infinite Jest, and passable meatless bacon, the notion that a…
There may be no new studies in the just-released White House Report on Women, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to…
According to new census data, marriage rates in 2009 were the lowest they've been in a century. Why? It's the economy,…
A new study shows that for some 30% of Americans, pets can be considered family. But not so much for gay partners.
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These sales-happy customer relations images from a modern food merchandising catalog (Modern Merchandising, 1939) come…
Perhaps in response to all the recent talk about the female imperative for mate-poaching - or perhaps coincidentally -…
U.S.: One kiss. France: Two. Netherlands: 3. In today's "Freakonomics," Daniel Hamermesh asks, who makes the kissing…
A new book, The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie is a sociological study that seeks to examine the history and culture of…
The old adage that men marry their mothers has some truth to it, according to some scientists who study this sort of…
There is a totally made-up story in today's New York Times about Bottega Veneta. You know Bottega. They make those…
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