Research finds that same-sex unions are happier than heterosexual marriages. What can gay and lesbian couples teach straight ones about living in harmony?
Few possess it, and not many want to. Explaining men's ambivalent relationship with an amoral virtue.
A glance at five academic studies
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The number of older men taking their own lives isn't going up, even though fewer and fewer of them are married.
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"I'm done splitting my sexuality into pieces."
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That's what Americans think, according to a new Gallup poll.
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"Tell me how you really feel about masturbation, and I can more or less predict how you'll feel about the more frequently debated 'sex war' issues."
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There should be options beyond tomboy (like Merida) and girly girl (like Cinderella).
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Childless women have found other ways to nurture—including adopting pets and providing guidance to young relatives and school-age girls.
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The problem with saying that young people today are in "a generation of adjustment" when it comes to women in the workplace.
‘Who were you really with? That little blonde secretary from the office?’
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There's something missing in today's understanding of romance.
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It would benefit everyone, of all ages and genders.
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A defense of consent as a lodestar of sexual morality
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The show offered some of the first opportunities for women to excel in a sitcom's writers' room.
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What's wrong with the Obama administration's definition of sexual harassment
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It's good to push your kids, but only if you're willing to listen to them complain about it.
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"It's like the British during the Blitz."
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
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