Nation Topics - Sex and Sexuality | The Nation

Socially conservative black churches may be ripe for exploitation by
the Christian right on gay marriage. But that's only part of the story.

Thanks to the fear tactics advocated by the Bush Administration and abetted by many health activists, gay and bisexual men have been engaged in a one-sided conversation about safe sex--all death and no life. Isn't a sex-positive approach more realistic?

From Brokeback Mountain's closeted cowboys to King Kong's
embrace of Anne Darrow, Hollywood has queered cherished icons of
masculinity. But the two films paint a bleak picture: Love that falls
outside the norm must struggle to be something more than
self-destructive.

WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes has just come out of the closet. But why
didn't anyone care?

Orgasms used to be a secret, then they became a right.
Now they're a duty. It's time to explode the myths.

An international furor over the hanging of "two gay teenagers" in Iran.

By engaging the marriage debate only in terms of "gay
rights," progressives have put themselves in a losing position.

The pope has minimized priests' crimes while wagging a finger at gays.

A biography of Utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick sheds new light on life in the Victorian era.

The family in the twentieth century.