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Publications — 2010-2006

2010

  • Sinner Men: The Rehabilitation of the Sex Sinner, CounterPunch, February 18, 2010.
  • The New Morality Police:  The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
  • Network Failure: The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
  • The Third Front: Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military, CounterPunch, March 19-21, 2010.
  • The GOP in Freewill?:  They Don’t Call It the Grand Old Party for Nothing, CounterPunch, March 31, 2010.
  • Globalizing the Culture Wars: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, CounterPunch, April 2, 2010.
  • Selective Journalism?: The New York Times vs. the Pope, CounterPunch, April 16, 2010.
  • Obama’s Rwanda?:  Halt the Slaughter in the Congo Now, No Apologies Later, CounterPunch, May 2, 2010.
  • Come Out George, Come Out!: Scandal Again Rocks the Christian Right, AlterNet, May 9, 2010.
  • The Great Telecom Rip-Off:  Or Why Aunt Ethel Hung-up on AT&T, CounterPunch, May 28, 2010.
  • The New Abortion Wars:  Recalling the Lessons of the 1929s, CounterPunch, June 25-27, 2010.
  • Blood on the Floor:  The Mounting Social Crisis & the Fate of the Working Class, CounterPunch, August 8, 2010.
  • Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 1:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 13, 2010.
  • Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 2:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 20-22, 2010.
  • End of “the American Century”?:  Suffering the New Normal, CounterPunch, September 10, 2010.
  • Tea Party Panic:  The Fear of Sex & Race & Interracial Sex, CounterPunch, September 17, 2010.
  • How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off. AlterNet, October 6, 2010.
  • The Sexy Sisters:  Tea Party Infatuation with the “New” Republican Woman, CounterPunch, October 15, 2010.
  • Conservatives’ Big Hypocrisy: Turning Women Candidates (Who Are Anti-Sex and Anti-Woman) into Sex Symbols, AlterNet, October 15, 2010.
  • Class War in America:  The War That Dares Not Speak Its Name, CounterPunch, October 29-31, 2010.
  • Class War Spurs Violent Clashes in Europe — Why Are Americans Just Letting the Super Rich Win?, AlterNet, November 1, 2010.
  • Class War Redux:  The Tea Party Congress and Likely Return to Social Purity, CounterPunch, December 3-5, 2010.

2009

  • Nails in the Coffin:  Last Gasps of the Culture Wars?, CounterPunch, February 1, 2009.
  • Sexting: Latest Innovation in Porn, CounterPunch, March 25, 2009.
  • Sexual Torture, Yet Again:  We Will Ever Know the Complete Truth?, CounterPunch, May 15-17, 2009.
  • Porn Wars:  One Step Forward, But Too Many Steps Backward in the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, May 22, 2009.
  • Cry, Hypocrite, Cry:  Politicians & America’s Grand Tradition of Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, June 26, 2009.
  • Prison Rape as Policy:  The Domestic War on Terror, CounterPunch, July 8, 2009.
  • Shouts from the Gallery:  Sotomayor Hearing & the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, July 15, 2009.
  • Silent Slaughter:  Sex Wars & Nation Building in Iraq, CounterPunch, August 28, 2009.
  • System Failure in the Garrido Case:  Sex Offenders, Media Hype and the Bureaucracy, CounterPunch, September 18, 2009.
  • Bankrupt Morality:  The Staying Power of Republican Sinners, CounterPunch, October 8, 2009.
  • America’s Failing Sexual Health:  An Unacknowledged Crisis, CounterPunch, December 1, 2009.
  • 10-Plus-1 Top Sports Sex Scandals:  All’s Fair On & Off the Playing Field, CounterPunch, December 4, 2009.
  • Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama:  A Year 1 Assessment, CounterPunch, December 22, 2009.

2008

  • The Great Disappearing Act, CounterPunch, January 1, 2008.
  • Playing the Race Card:  Barack Obama, Love Across the Race Line and Political Dirty Tricks, Counterpunch, February 27, 2008.
  • Rape as an Instrument of Total War:  Women, Rape & Modernity’s Self-Negation, CounterPunch, April 4, 2008.
  • The New Texas Two-Step:  Polygamy & State Regulation of Sexual Life, CounterPunch, April 19, 2008.
  • Sexual Terrorism:  The Sadistic Side of Bush’s War on Terror, CounterPunch, May 13, 2008.
  • The Great Disappearing Act:  2008 Presidential Candidates & the Politics of Sex, CounterPunch, June 23, 2008.
  • Looking for Safe Harbor:  Teen Prostitution in America, August 2-3, 2008.
  • The Culture Wars Are Over:  But Culture Warriors Still Terrorize America, CounterPunch August 23-24, 2008.
  • The GOP’s Outed All-Stars, CounterPunch, August 29, 2008.
  • One Billion Pills Later:  The Viagra Decade & the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, September 20, 2008.
  • The Great Fear:  The Sexual Politics of Sarah Palin, CounterPunch, September 27, 2008.
  • A New Sexual Agenda:  Nine Proposals for President-Elect Obama & the New Democratic Congress to End the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, November 28, 2008.

2007

  • The Teen Abstinence-Only Crusade: Bush’s Domestic Sex Policy, CounterPunch, January 12, 2007.
  • Pay-to-Play:  The Double-Life of Prostitution in America, CounterPunch, January 27, 2007.
  • To Cut or Not to Cut:  Male Circumcision in America, CounterPunch, March 2, 2007
  • An American Obituary: Anne Nicole Smith and the Exploitation of Nature, CounterPunch, March 24-25, 2007.
  • The New Disappeared:  Sex Offenders, Civil Confinement & the Resurrection of Evil, CounterPunch, May 10, 2007.
  • The Hidden Cost of War: American Women Warriors & the War on Terror, CounterPunch, June 23-24, 2007.
  • Moral Hypocrisy, Yet Again:  The Christian Right, Sexual Scandal & the Sexual Pleasures of the Courtesan, CounterPunch, July 17, 2007.
  • America’s Top Ten Political Sex Scandals:  James Buchanan, the First Gay President, and Other Tales of Sex and Power in Washington, CounterPunch, August 1, 2007.
  • The Case of Genarlow Wilson:  Racism, Justice & Age-of-Consent Laws in America, CounterPunch, August 14, 2007.
  • The GOP Outed All-Stars:  The Forced Freeing of Gay Men from the Republican Closet, CounterPunch, August 29, 2007
  • Slugger Sex:  Athletes, Violence & Male Sexuality, CounterPunch, September 22, 2007.
  • Women Warriors & the War on Terror, Z-magazine, October 1, 2007
  • Deviants on Parade:  Folsom Street Fair & America’s 4th Sexual Revolution, CounterPunch, October 20, 2007.
  • The Scarlet Hypocrites:  Republican Politicians, Christian Conservatives & the All-American Sin of Adultery, CounterPunch, November 17, 2007.
  • Senior Sex: The Real Sex Life of Aging Americans, CounterPunch, November 24, 2007.
  • Porn in the Closet:  Mitt Romney’s Secret Life as a Pornographer, CounterPunch, December 20, 2007.

2006

  • Bush’s Foreign Sex Policy:  Imperialism’s Second Front, CounterPunch, December 22, 2006.
  • Made in China: The Sex-Toy Invasion, CounterPunch, December 2, 2006.
  • Those Who Preach in Glass Houses:  Ted Haggard & the Eclipse of Evangelical Fury, CounterPunch, November 15, 2006.
  • Perversions of Power: Mark Foley and the Bush Administration, CounterPunch, October 27, 2006.
  • Sex Panic on Capitol Hill:  Rep. Foley & the Politics of Sex in America, CounterPunch, October 10, 2006.

 

 

 

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DAVID ROSEN is a widely published author whose books include
Sex, Sin & Subversion: The Transformation of 1950s New York’s Forbidden into America’s New Normal (2016); Sex Scandal America: Politics & the Ritual of Public Shaming (2009); Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films (1991), originally commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project. He is author of many scholarly articles, book reviews and popular pieces on media-tech, telecom, politics, sex and American life.

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