The Last Perfect Day: An Excerpt from ON SAL MAL LANE

On Sal Mal Lane

“Mr. Niles’s words rang in his ears: Long ago, he was just a boy like you.” By Ru Freeman

Growing Up on Planet Porn

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Were our kids sexually healthier when sexual images were harder to come by?

The Edge of Innocence

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Let your children dream about peace and beauty and hope. Let them believe that they are lightning rods for global change.

I’ll Never Forgive You

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Four little words by Victim 4 in the Jerry Sundusky case speak volumes.

Children Remember

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Andrew Lawes recalls how his father made any hope of a “normal” childhood impossible.

In Rape Culture, All Men Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent

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Why do good men have to pay for other men’s bad behavior? Hugo Schwyzer explains the answer he learned in his first Women’s Studies class.

An End to Innocence

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“It’s not that I want back all my innocence, just the joy of losing it again” – Dawes, “Strangers Getting Stranger”

An End to Innocence, or How I Learned to Shoot a Jump Shot

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Even now, some 30 years later, Yago Colás remembers the jump-shot fundamentals he learned back in eighth grade.