Hot & Bothered

Columns

||| On Language—"Shiksa": From insult to irreverence ||| On Drugs—Bad medicine: Big Pharma's female trouble ||| On Activism—Tree so horny: Can sex sell environmentalism?

Features

::: Female Bonding—The strange history of Wonder Woman ::: Hooking Up—The upwardly mobile new face of the world's oldest profession ::: Carnal Knowledge—Talking labor with sex work magazine $pread ::: Kicking and Shrugging—Why do we resist self-defense? ::: Seeing Red—Twelve (or so) angry women on film ::: Film Threat—This Film Is Not Yet Rated director Kirby Dick on sex, spies, and videotape ::: Reading is Fundamental—Eight books that taught us something about sex ::: Truly Outrageous—Toward a defense of Jem and the Holograms