The following are articles I’ve published — with links — over the last decade that explore the issue of sex, politics and American life.
2022
- Gender Nonconformity: Further Erosion of Patriarchy, CounterPunch, October 13, 2022.
2021
- Republican Revenge: Targeting Gender Nonconforming Children, CounterPunch, April 8, 2021.
- Atlanta Shooting: Sex, Race & the Politics of Repression, CounterPunch, March 24, 2021.
- The Culture Wars Continue: Biden Takes on Abortion, CounterPunch, February 19, 2021.
2020
- Fundamentalist Christians, Sex & the Supreme Court, Medium, October 20, 2020.
- Kennedy, Sex & Prostitutes, Medium, October 12, 2020.
- Donald Trump, Sex & Prostitutes, Medium, October 4, 2020.
- The Dildo: A Short History of a Long Story, Medium, September 26, 2020.
- The Sex Industry in the Time of Covid-19, Medium, September 24, 2020.
- Easy Target: Trump’s Attack on Transgender People, CounterPunch, August 7, 2020.
- Coronavirus and the Increase in Domestic Violence, CounterPunch, May 1, 2020.
- Sex Life in the Time of the 21st-Century Plaque, CounterPunch, April 27, 2020.
- Abortion & the 2020 Election, CounterPunch, March 11, 2020.
- Targeting Gender Nonconforming Children, CounterPunch, February 7, 2020.
2019
- Dialectics of Postmodern Sexual Identity, CounterPunch, December 3, 2019.
- Epstein Story Continues to Unravel, CounterPunch, November 8, 2019.
- Evangelicals, Abstinence, Abortion & the Mainstreaming of Sex, CounterPunch, September 20, 2019.
- The Likely End to Roe v Wade, CounterPunch, September 13, 2019.
- The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right’s Plan to Destroy Legal Abortionby Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo, New York Journal of Books, August 31, 2019, 2019.
- Sex Work & the 2020 Presidential Campaign, CounterPunch, August 30, 2019.
- Postmodern Sexual Identity, CounterPunch, August 2, 2019.
- The Epstein Affair: Take #2, CounterPunch, July 10, 2019.
- What Happened to Obscenity?, CounterPunch, June 28, 2019.
- Florida’s Sex Wars: the Battle to Decriminalize Sex Work, CounterPunch, May 17, 2019.
- Abortion Wars Get Meaner, CounterPunch, April 12, 2019.
- Trafficking or Commercial Sex?: What Recent Exposes Reveal, CounterPunch, March 22, 2019,
- Review, After the Rise and Fall of American Feminism by Lynn Chancer, New York Review of Books, February 5, 2019.
- Roe: Preparing for the Worst, CounterPunch, January 24, 2019.
- Review, Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty, New York Journal of Books, January 21, 2019.
- Sexual Predators in the Era of Trump, CounterPunch, January 11, 2019.
2018
- December 17th: International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers, CounterPunch, December 17, 2018.
- Conversion Therapy is Fake Medicine, Progressive, November 30, 2018.
- The Abortion Battle Continues, CounterPunch, November 30, 2018.
- It’s Time to Decriminalize Sex Work, CounterPunch, November 9, 2018.
- Trump’s HHS & the Renewed Cultural Wars, CounterPunch, October 26, 2018.
- Fake Abortion Centers: “We’re Fighting Satan,” CounterPunch, October 5, 2018.
- When is a Kiss More Than a Kiss, CounterPunch, September 7, 2018.
- It’s Time to Decriminalize Sex Work, The Progressive, August 4, 2018.
- Prostitution in the Age of Trump, CounterPunch, July 27, 2018.
- Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Escalates America’s War on Sex, CounterPunch, July 20, 2018.
- Lest We Forget: Recalling the Second Culture Wars, CounterPunch, June 29, 2018.
- The Trial of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women by Scott W. Stern, New York Journal of Books, June 26, 2018.
- Trump’s War on Sex, CounterPunch, June 22, 2018
- Why Do Establishment Feminists Hate Sex Workers?, CounterPunch, June 15, 2018.
- Thin Red Line: Flirting v Harassment, CounterPunch, May 9, 2018.
- The War on Sex Trafficking: A Culture Wars’ Racket, CounterPunch, April 27, 2018.
- Trump v. Kennedy: Presidential Sex and the Transformation of Shame, CounterPunch, April 13, 2018.
- The Further Adventures of the President and the Porn Star, CounterPunch, March 22, 2018.
- Donald Trump’s Pathetic Sex Life, CounterPunch, February 13, 2018.
- From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public Rage, CounterPunch, January 29, 2018.
2017
- Male Sexual Violence: As American as Cherry Pie, CounterPunch, October 20, 2017.
- Trump & the 21st Century Family, CounterPunch, October 10, 2017.
- True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Centuryby Emily Skidmore, New York Journal of Books, October 2, 2017.
- “Bag-the-Fag”: Entrapping Sex Offenders, CounterPunch, September 29, 2017.
- What Gender?: The Evolving Definition of Sexual Identity, CounterPunch, September 15, 2017.
- Do Americans Have a Right to Sexual Pleasure?,CounterPunch, September 1, 2017.
- Sex Robots: The Sad Future of Sexual Fantasy, CounterPunch, August 25, 2017.
- Trump & Sex: From Up-Market Hedonist to Down-Market Moralists, CounterPunch, August 11, 2017.
- America’s Five Sex Panics, CounterPunch, July 21, 2017.
- The Sex Offender: The 21stCentury Witch, CounterPunch, June 23, 2017
- An End to Conversion Therapy?, CounterPunch, June 12, 2017.
- The War on Sex, David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, editors, New York Journal of Book, June 5, 2017
- The Sexual State of the Nation: Less Sex, Higher Anxiety, CounterPunch, May 12, 2017.
- Melania Trump: Another First Lady as Good Wife, CounterPunch, May 5, 2017.
- Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century, by Geoffrey R. New York Journal of Books, April 11, 2017.
- Why Did Trump Target Transgender Youth?, CounterPunch, March 24, 2017.
- Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in New York City, 1900–1918,by Brian Donovan, New York Journal of Books, March 20, 2017.
- Sexual Violence: Who Perpetrates It & Who Suffers, CounterPunch, March 3, 2017.
- Suspect Feedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957, by Nancy Raquel Mirabel, book review, New York Review of Books, February 13, 2017.
- Return of the Repressed: Trump & the Renewal of the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, January 13, 2017.
- Secrets of the Bible Belt: Trump, Porn & the Making of the New South, CounterPunch, January 6, 2017.
2016
- Trump’s Hedonism vs. Pence’s Puritanism, CounterPunch, November 25, 2016.
- New Conception of Sexual Violence, CounterPunch, November 11, 2016.
- 16 And Not Pregnant: A Shift in the Culture War, AlterNet, November 7, 2016.
- Was Bill Clinon the Most Sexist President?, CounterPunch,October 20, 2016.
- What Happened to the Culture War?, CounterPunch, October 7, 2016.
- Sex-Crime and Punishment, CounterPunch, September 9, 2016.
- Love & Terror: Sex as a Weapon, CounterPunch, September 2, 2016.
- The Great Fear: Miscegenation, Race “Pollution” and the 2016 Election, CounterPunch, August 19, 2016.
- Meet Ela Darling: The 21st Century’s First VR Porn Star, AlterNet, August 8, 2016.
- Culture War & the 2016 Election, CounterPunch, August 5, 2016.
- Birth-Control Wars: Two Centuries of Struggle, CounterPunch, June 29, 2016.
- VR Sex: The Future of Porn?, CounterPunch, May 13, 2016.
- Culture War Zombies: The Latest Anti-Gay Campaign, CounterPunch, April 8-10, 2016.
- Donald Trump & the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, February 26-28, 2016.
- 21stCentury Public Shaming, CounterPunch, February 19-21, 2016.
- When Trump Confronted a Transsexual Beauty, CounterPunch, February 12-14, 2016.
- New Dogs, Old Barks: The Culture Wars Recalibrate, CounterPunch, January 29-31, 2016.
2015
- 16 and Pregnant: Can Realty TV Promote Positive Social Change?, Documentary Television, September 1, 2015.
- 4 Reasons to Decriminalize Prostitution, AlterNet, July 20, 2015.
- Transsexuals & the U.S. Military: One More Victory in the Culture War,CounterPunch,July 17, 2015.
- From Stonewall to Seventy: A tribute to living a full life, 429magazine, April 22, 2015.
- Thrill-Killer: Sexual Pathology and the Leather Fetish, 429magazine, April 21, 2015
2014
- AIDS: Rise of Killer Virus. Documentary Television, November 30, 2014
- HIV & Ebola & the Zoonoses Wars: The Other Ecological Crisis. CounterPunch, November 21-23, 2014.
- Ambitious new documentary, airing on World AIDS Day, will trace origins of HIV.429magazine, November 26, 2014.
- Sex Toy Industry Has Quietly Turned Into Multi-Billion-Dollar Business. AlterNet, November 18, 2014.
- Point of No Return?: Gay Marriage and the 2014 Elections. CounterPunch, November 3, 2014.
- Has the U.S. finally reached a tipping point with same-sex marriage?, 429magazine, Oct 14, 2014.
- We are all sexters now: America’s favorite amateur porn, Salon,August 16, 2014
- How Much Sexting Do Americans Do?: Ask the British Surveillance State. AlterNet, March 21, 2014
- Who’s a Virgin?: The Sexual Practices of Young Americans, CounterPunch, March 21-23, 2014.
- Alienated Bodies: The Boom in Plastic Surgery, CounterPunch, March 7-9, 2014.
- Incest Panic in America!: Woody Allen and the Oldest Taboo, CounterPunch, February 14-16, 2014.
- Super Bowl Sex: The Sex Trade and the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, January 31-February 2, 2014.
2013
- Psychic Change: How Homosexuality Became Normalized. CounterPunch, December 6-8, 2013.
- The Mainstreaming of Sexual Perversion: The Fetish Has Become an Endangered Species. CounterPunch, November 22-24, 2013.
- The Unspoken Epidemic: 1 in 10 Young People Is A Victim of Sexual Violence. CounterPunch, October 25-27, 2013.
- Hell on Earth: Sexual Victimization of the Criminally Insane. CounterPunch, October 18-20, 2013.
- Pawns in Their Game: The Politics Sex of Trafficking, CounterPunch, September 20-22, 2013.
- Politics of Impotence: The Crisis of the Imperial Penis, CounterPunch, September 20-22, 2013.
- Trading Flesh for Cash: Inside the Strip Club. AlterNet, August 8, 2013.
- Sex Crime Charade: Why Have Prostitution Arrests Dropped by 50 Percent? CounterPunch, August 2-4, 2013.
- Could Porn Be Censored in America?AlterNet, July 31, 2013
- A Tale of Two Pols: Carlos Danger v. Beau James. CounterPunch, July 26-28, 2013
- The Flesh Trade: Sex Work in America. AlterNet, July 18, 2013.
- New Pornographers Claim Their Work Is Ethical, Feminist and ‘Sex-Positive,’ But Will It Sell?AlterNet, July 4, 2013.
- sex, lies and the great recession: What’s the Sexual Health of the Nation? CounterPunch, June 21-23, 2013.
- Is the Rise of Filthy Gonzo Porn Actually Dangerous, Or Are People Overreacting? AlterNet, June 7, 2013.
- Is Success Killing the Porn Industry?AlterNet, May 27, 2013.
- Weiner Redux: Political Rehabilitation & the End of the Culture Wars. CounterPunch, May 23, 2013.
- How the Women of Good Vibrations and Babeland Have Helped to Liberate Female Orgasms.AlterNet, April 18, 2013.
- Genital Casualties: Military Failure & the Crisis in Masculinity, CounterPunch, April 12-14, 2013.
- Amazon Sells 60,000 Sex Toys and Related Products?: Welcome to Sex 4.0. AlterNet, March 22, 2013.
- What the $15 Billion Sex Toy Industry Tells Us About Sexuality Today. AlterNet,March 8, 2013.
- End of the Culture Wars?: Is the Christian Right’s Fury Spent For Now? CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013.
2012
- Pregnant Women are NOT Incubators!: It’s Time to End the Right’s Campaign Against Women, CounterPunch, December 28-30, 2012.
- The Return of Infidelity: The Last Frontier in the Culture Wars?, CounterPunch, November 12, 2012
- Inside the Gulag: Rape in America’s Prisons, CounterPunch, October 12-14, 2012
- Passion, Perversion and Politics: The Folsom Street Fair and the 2012 Election, CounterPunch, October 5-7, 2012.
- The New White Slave Trade: The Truth About Sex Trafficking,CounterPunch,August 24-26, 2012.
- The Other Sex War: Porn, Sex Toys & Consensual Adult Get-Togethers, CounterPunch, June 15-17, 2012.
- Paying the Price: The Sexual Politics of Poverty. CounterPunch, May 11-13, 2012.
- Enforcing the Culture Wars: The State as an Instrument of Sexual Repression. CounterPunch, April 13-15, 2012.
- JFK’s latest extramarital affair and the 2012 election. CounterPunch, February 22, 2012.
- Sin, Sex and South Carolina: Culture Wars in the 2012 Election. CounterPunch,January 20-22, 2012.
- Lest We Forget: Mitt Romney: Banker and Pornographer, CounterPunch,January 13-15, 2012.
2011
- Shame of the Nation: Sexual Violence in America, CounterPunch,December 23-25, 2011.
- Sex Scandals & Cover-Ups: Waiting for the Second Shoe to Fall, CounterPunch,November, 15, 2011.
- AIDS at 30: Things Will Likely Get Worse for the Most Vulnerable. CounterPunch,July 8-10, 2011.
- Weiner Roast: The Politics of Narcissism. CounterPunch, June 15, 2011.
- Arnold’s Decade of Deceit: Schwarzenegger’s Sexcapades and the Plight of the GOP, CounterPunch, May 27-29, 2011.
- Lust Murder: Prostitutes as Victims of Throwaway Capitalism,CounterPunch, April 15-17, 2011.
- A New Dark Ages: Sexual Health and the Republican Counter-Revolution, CounterPunch, April 8 – 10, 2011.
- Condoms and Skins: America’s Changing Sexual Appetites, CounterPunch, February 25-26, 2011.
2010
- Sinner Men: The Rehabilitation of the Sex Sinner, CounterPunch, February 18, 2010.
- The New Morality Police: Corporate Censors Flex Their Muscles, CounterPunch, March 5, 2010.
- Third Front: Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military, CounterPunch, March 19-21, 2010.
- Selective Journalism?: The New York Times vs. the Pope, CounterPunch, April 16, 2010.
- The New Abortion Wars: Recalling the Lessons of the 1920s, CounterPunch, June 25-27, 2010.
- Tea Party Panic: The Fear of Sex & Race & Interracial Sex, CounterPunch, September 17, 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.
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.
- 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: Year 1 Assessment, CounterPunch, December 22, 2009.
2008
- The Great Disappearing Act: The Presidential Candidates and the Politics of Sex, CounterPunch, January 23, 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.
- Looking for Safe Harbor: Teen Prostitution in America, CounterPunch, 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 4thSexual 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.
- Sex Toys: Made in China, 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.