I’m friends with a girl, “Hannah,” who goes to my university. Hannah came from a pretty repressive household and is still a virgin, even though she’s 19. The other day, she made a request that took me ...

That's not a Greek goddess up there, looking over Union Square. Well, it's supposed to be — it's an interpretation of Nike, the goddess of victory — but the figure is modeled after someone only ...

Can you solve the mystery of this photo, believed to be a residence in the expansive Aldolph and Alma Spreckels’ estate in the Sonoma Valley? The infamous Spreckels family made its fortune in sugar ...

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 ...