Nation Topics - Sex and Sexuality | The Nation

The explosion of student sex columns, as captivating as they are controversial, represents a campus movement possessed of the same subversive potential that fueled 1960s student activism.

"Female sexual dysfunction" is a case in point of a runaway medical system that requires huge profits, hence new sicknesses, pills and procedures.

Scrutinizing the machinery of the "straight state."

The Nation's Richard Kim and others discuss the admittedly provocative antics of Sacha Baron Cohen's latest creation.

We could bash divorce forever, but what's the point? Even Jesus can't keep unhappy spouses together.

The former president's reversal is the highest-profile one to date. It may also have political implications for the future of the Defense of Marriage Act.

The latest political sex scandal isn't a scandal at all but a circumstance as old and common as time.

The Nation's Richard Kim participates in a panel discussion on the role of LGBT politics within the progressive movement.

Nation contributor Lisa Duggan reflects on the state of the gay rights movement, forty years after Stonewall.

Since Obama traced his dazzling arc to the presidency, his stance on gay rights has become murkier, and more Clintonian.