Noah Berlatsky

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.