I was thirteen when I first began starving myself, but you’ve heard stories like mine before. Like genital mutilation and date rape, anorexia has had its recurring moments in the spotlight, an issue sensational enough for TV movies and the…
Author Richard Newman First published 8/3/2010 in Sex in the Public Square In 1834, Sylvester Graham—inventor of the cracker that continues to bear his name—published a book called A Lecture to Young Men, in which he warned that masturbation would…
Author Richard Newman First published 8/3/2010 in Sex in the Public Square At eleven, I am the youngest of eight boys lined up along one row of lockers in the otherwise empty men’s room at the swimming pool to which…
Author Richard Newman First published in Sex In the Public Square 7/26/2010 As a Jewish man, like it or not, my identity within the Jewish community as both a man and a Jew is defined by the fact of…