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A post from DoubleX intern Claire Gordon: Last week, a 19-year-old New Zealand student, known only as Unigirl, sold her virginity to a stranger for $32,000. Her online ad was viewed by 30,000 people and received over 1,200 offers. Thanks to the Internet, women like Unigirl are putting their sexual initiation up for sale in the very public ...

Amanda, I disagree that the Tim Tebow ad was meant to be cruel and braggy. I found it innocuous—and even when I thought it was going to be more explicitly anti-choice, I did not think pro-choice people should protest in order to get it yanked off the air. Dayo, you say that CBS was complicit in the airing of sexist, misogynist ads during the ...

Yesterday, Jessica Wakeman of the Frisky asked Lori Gottlieb about the article I wrote earlier this week about Gottlieb's book, Marry Him: the Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. To recap, Gottlieb's argument is that college-educated women in their late 30s and early 40s who are still single are without husbands because they were too picky when ...

Everyone knows that an appearance on Oprah is a golden ticket to a best-selling book, a successful clothing line, or a huge elevation of your personal brand. In her last full year as a talk-show hostess (Oprah's retiring in 2011) her influential guests' missteps are becoming ever more dangerous—their advice has cost people their lives. This week ...

A guest post from Peter Kramer: Newsweek has just weighed in with a cover story (''Antidepressants Don't Work'') based on the recent JAMA antidepressant study and previous summary analyses of FDA and drug-company data. Here and elsewhere, I have had my say on this research. Newsweek thinks it shows that for most sorts of depression, ...

—South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is battling John Edwards for title of ''worst husband ever.'' According to Jenny Sanford's book out Friday, Staying True, her estranged husband would not agree to be faithful in their wedding vows ... (Read the rest of this article here.)

Kathryn Bigelow was nominated for an Oscar for directing the Iraq War film The Hurt Locker this morning. She is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated in the directing category, joining Lina Wertmüller, Sofia Coppola, and Jane Campion. Bigelow talked at length to DoubleX contributor Willa Paskin last year. Here's what she had to say about ...

A guest post from DoubleX contributor Sarah Elizabeth Richards: Thanks, Jess, for giving us some much-needed perspective on all the Lori Gottlieb coverage. Although her book, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, surely prompted lots of entertaining “I wonder what my life would be like if I had married that guy” Sunday brunch ...

A post from DoubleX contributor Amanda Marcotte: It's been hard for me to support the Obama administration in the past few months because of what I perceive as an epic failure on the health care front. Even Obama's thumping of House Republicans seems like too little, too late, as though he just realized that they fully intend to block any ...

A guest post from Daily Beast writer Danielle Friedman: Amid little fanfare, the Miss America pageant aired live from Las Vegas Saturday night. The event barely made a ripple, except among a few entertainment and feminist bloggers eager to (again) ponder its lack of relevance and implicit sexism. Growing up in Georgia (the heart of pageant ...