The infamous Spreckels family made its fortune in sugar after the patriarch Claus allegedly acquired water rights in a poker game with the King of Hawaii. The plantations and refineries financed later ...

"I know of young women who have been returned to their families by their husbands because, as you say, they did not bleed on defloweration," Shereen El Feki tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. El Feki, the ...

Shereen El Feki is the author of Sex and the Citadel. "I know of young women who have been returned to their families by their husbands because, as you say, they did not bleed on defloweration," ...

The New York Times shouldn't feel bad that it's wrong about the hymen. When I was doing a recent update on the hymen for the next edition of my book, I learned that a large number of health care ...