Publications — 2009-2006

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 4^th 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.

Sex Work & the 2020 Presidential Campaign

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The Likely End of Roe v. Wade?

The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision forced 46 states to liberalize their abortion laws and remains the defining issue of the culture wars. However, the Trump administration and states across the country are aggressively are moving to either cut or end Roe. These effort to end Roe show how the “unborn” is becoming a “person”. Read more.

Koch’s America: the Rule of the New Robber Barons

A century ago the country was ruled by a cabal popularly known as the Robber Barons. Today, the country is witnessing the return exemplified by the Koch brothers. Read more.