Confessions of a Radical DoulaWhy is the delivery room the one place where a woman doesn’t have control over what happens to her body?
ByElisa Albert
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Is Prostitution Just Another Job?Many sex workers think their work should be as legal as accounting. And American society is closer than ever to agreeing with them.
And Just Like That, Balenciaga Is BackTalking to artistic director Demna Gvasalia about his provocative first collection for one of fashion’s most influential brands.
ByCathy Horyn
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Does Encouraging Suicide Make You a Killer?A teenager sent her depressed boyfriend hundreds of messages prodding him to kill himself. Now she’s been charged with manslaughter.
Miki Agrawal’s Panty RaidThe self-styled tech broad wants to disrupt the tampon industry, turn your time of the month into a cause, and make a lot of money in underwear.
From Pickup Artist to PariahJared Rutledge fancied himself a big man of the “manosphere.” But when his online musings about 46 women were exposed, his whole town turned against him.
ByRachel Monroe
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My Wife and I Are (Both) PregnantThe story of two women who set out to have a baby together, and were more successful than they ever imagined.
The Hustlers at ScoresA group of women working the strip clubs saw themselves as Robin Hoods. The clients saw it differently.
ByJessica Pressler
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The Hustlers at ScoresA few strippers who stole from (mostly) rich, (usually) disgusting, (in their minds) pathetic men and gave to, well, themselves.
ByJessica Pressler
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‘I’m Having a Friendship Affair’A look at the intensely obsessive, deeply meaningful, occasionally undermining, marriage-threatening, slightly pathological platonic intimacy that can happen between women.