I have to admit that the Mark Sanford sex scandal has captured my attention. Usually I don’t care about these things (John Ensign, John Edwards, David Vitter, Eliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton, etc.) except to bemoan the tragedy of gifted and skilled political voices who threw it all away. To paraphrase what Dee [...]

My wife just sent me a fascinating article on Slate that I thought I would share with you. Some geneticists recently completed a study on how genes for homosexuality could continue to exist given that homosexual men tend not to procreate. They tested a number of theories against the data, and discovered that [...]

An interesting off-shoot of the Spitzer case seems to be a revival in the debate about prostitution. In the New York Times Opinion Page today, for instance, you can find three different articles about prostitution: one written by the authors of two sex books on sex trafficking who argue that prostitutes are naturally victims [...]

It’s a headline designed to scare: Study Finds 1 in 4 US Teens Has A STD. And it’s true, at least according to a recent federal study, which included a survey about adolescent women’s sexual practices and clinical testing. The article then goes on to describe “shocked” health experts, advocates stressing that more [...]