“A lot of people assume that I’m comfortable discussing everything about sex,” says Good For Her owner Carlyle Jansen. “They find it really surprising that I can get really shy with my partner. It’s about intimacy and risk; I don’t have a lot of risk telling you my desires, but if I tell my partner and they say that’s really weird, that hurts. Most people think there aren’t any hard edges left for me when it comes to sex, but there are.”

Eonnagata lives between worlds: half theatre and half dance, part French and part kabuki, its main character a sword-wielding diplomat who lived life by turns as a man and as a woman.

Photo by wili_hybrid. There is little more dreadful for a parent than unintentionally hurting one’s own child. There is little more traumatic for a child than having something they dearly want taken away from them. A Toronto psychologist is under fire for recommending controversial treatments which some believe cause just that. A heartbreaking NPR documentary [...]

Photo by David Spigolon. Just over a decade ago in the basement of a SoHo café, playwright Eve Ensler began performing a series of moving and celebratory monologues dealing with the shame many women have over their physiology and sexuality. Since then, The Vagina Monologues has evolved to legendary fame, so far staged in 120 [...]