Sexual Politics

• SEX SCANDAL AMERICA: Politics & the Ritual of Public Shaming, (Key Publishing, 2009).

• “Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama:  Assessing Obama’s First Term,” in  Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, ed. Jeffrey St. Clair (AK Press, 2012).

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.

• 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 at Good Vibrations and Babeland Helped 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.

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 American Prisons, CounterPunch, October 12-14, 2012.

• Passion, Perversion & 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 Adults Get-Together, 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.

• Santorum and the New Know-Nothings: The Revival of American Nativism, CounterPunch, March 9, 2012.

• Happy Birthday, Mr. President:  Sex, Sin & the 2012 Election, CounterPunch, February 22, 2012.

• Amorality & False Consciousness:  The Mass Psychology of Newt Gingrich, CounterPunch, January 27-29, 2012.

• Least We Forget:  Mitt Romney, Banker & Pornographer, CounterPunch, January 13-15 2012.

• 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.

• The Politics of Fashion:  What the Zoot Suit Tells Us About America, ANDmagazine, September 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 15-19, 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.

• Celebrating Presidents’ Day: Two Centuries of Presidential Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, February 21, 2011.

2010-2007

• Sexy Sisters: The New Republican Women, CounterPunch, October 15-17, 2010.

• Tea Party Panic: The Fear of Sex, Race and Inter-racial ‘Pollution, CounterPunch, September 17-19, 2010.

• The New Abortion Wars:  Recalling the Lessons of the 1920s, CounterPunch, June 25 – 27, 2010.

• Come Out, George, Come Out: New Scandal Rocks Christian Right, CounterPunch, May 7 – 9, 2010

• GOP in Freefall?:  They Don’t Call It the Grand Old Party for Nothing, CounterPunch, March 31, 2010.

• The Third Front: Sexual Assault in the U. S. Military, CounterPunch, March 19 – 21, 2010.

• Sinner Men: The Rehabilitation of the Sex Sinner, CounterPunch, February 18, 2010.

• Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama: A Year One Assessment, CounterPunch, December 22, 2009.

• Top Sports Sex Scandals: All’s Fair On and Off the Playing Field, CounterPunch, December 4-6, 2009.

• An Unacknowledged Crisis: America’s Failing Sexual Health, CounterPunch, December 1, 2009.

• System Failure in the Garrido Case: Sex Offenders, Media Hype and the Bureaucracy, CounterPunch, September 18-20, 2009.

• Prison Rape as Policy: When Sadism Goes Systematic, CounterPunch July 8, 2009.

• One Billion Pills Later: Viagra at 10, CounterPunch, September 20-21, 2008.

• Teen Prostitution in America:  Looking for Safe Harbor, CounterPunch, August 2-3, 2008.

• The Great Disappearing Act: 2008 Presidential Candidates & the Politics of Sex, CounterPunch, January 23, 2008.

• Porn in the Closet?: Mitt Romney’s Secret Life as a Pornographer, CounterPunch, December 20, 2007.

• Senior Sex: The Real Sexual Life of Aging Americans, CounterPunch, November 24-25, 2007.

• Deviants on Parade:  Folsom Street Fair and America’s 4th Sexual Revolution, CounterPunch, October 20-21, 2007.

• Troop Maneuvers: Women Warriors & the War on Terror, Z Magazine, October 2007.

• Slugger Sex: Athletes, Violence & Male Sexuality, CounterPunch, September 22-23, 2007.

• The GOP’s Outed All-Stars: The Forced Freeing of Gay Men from the Republican Closet, CounterPunch, August 29, 2007

• The Case of Genarlow Wilson:  Racism, Justice and Age-of-Consent Laws in America, CounterPunch, August 14, 2007.

• America’s Top Ten Sex Scandals:  James Buchanan, the First Gay President, and Other Tales of Sex and Power in Washington, CounterPunch, August 1, 2007.

• Pay-to-Play: The Double Life of Prostitution in America, CounterPunch, January 27-28, 2007.

• Bush’s Domestic Sex Policy: The Teen Abstinence-Only Crusade, CounterPunch, January 12-14, 2007.