Sexes
Can Game Theory Help to Prevent Rape?
A new app gives college students the option to only report a sexual assault if someone else is raped by the same person.
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Laszlo Balogh / Reuters Optimists Make Better Lovers
People who predict happy endings with their partners have better relationships in the now.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Hell for Abortion Providers
The Supreme Court struck down a law that would force many Texas clinics to close. But for abortion providers in conservative areas, staying open is just the start.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Kim to Caitlyn: 'You Gotta Rock It Every Day'
Why the transgender star equates femininity with makeup
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Toby Melville / Reuters Why Women (Sometimes) Don't Help Other Women
It’s not because they’re inherently harsher leaders than men, but because they often respond to sexism by trying to distance themselves from other women.
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Teaching a 5-Year-Old Girl Karate to Prevent Rape
Yesterday, Caroline composed an excellent roundup of advice from parents on how to counsel very young children on the basics…
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Alvin Baez / Reuters The Singular Experience of the Queer Latin Nightclub
The author of Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics says that the event attacked in Orlando was more than a “safe space.”
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Mel Evans / AP Standing by Their Man
The women who support Donald Trump will not be bullied.
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MTV MTV's Role in the LGBT Revolution
For Pride month, the network is trying to remind audiences of the political legacy of shows like The Real World.
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ArthurStock / Shutterstock Why Are More Women Than Men on Instagram?
Mothers’ historical responsibility for taking family photos could be one explanation.
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Andrej Isakovic / AFP / Getty A Brief History of Skimpy Clothes
It’s 2016, and kids are being thrown out of prom for inappropriate clothes. Where do dress codes come from?
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Breakups at the Beginning and End of Marriage
These two entries for our ongoing reader series are bookends of sorts—one at the end of a long marriage and…
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Bertrand Langlois / Getty Images The Unintended Consequences of Purity Pledges
A new study suggests teens who vow to be sexually abstinent until marriage—and then break that vow—are more likely to wind up pregnant than those who never took the pledge to begin with.
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When a Breakup Leads to the Love of Your Life
For our reader series on memorable breakups, Michael has the most positive take yet: Well, how about…
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'I Still Love Him, So I Rarely Progress to Second Dates'
That’s the bind that reader Laura finds herself in. After reading her story below, about her tumultuous relationship with Paul…
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'My Breakup Turned Into a Full-Blown Double Life'
This reader tried to put his foot down like Wayne did with Stacy: I had…
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When Someone Proposes to You Moments After You Cheated
That’s the crux of the second story below, but first a quick one from this Southern reader: …
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The Slow-Acting Venom of Infidelity
That’s the metaphor used by the second reader below. This first one points to a different kind of persistent pain…
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Luke MacGregor / Reuters How Older Brothers Influence Homosexuality
Homosexuality might be partly driven by a mother’s immune response to her male fetus—which increases with each son she has.
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Revealing Your Infidelity on Valentine's Day
This reader is pretty candid: I only had a few serious relationships prior to my marriage to…
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Driving a Thousand Miles to Get Dumped
That’s what this poor reader went through—but eventually the feeling came full circle: My girlfriend and I…