Erica Jong

You want your first crush to last" could have been the theme song for Twilight, the movie version of Stephenie Meyer's mammoth best-seller about a high school junior, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), who moves from her mother's place in arid Phoenix to her...

Sisterhood—in the family and body politic—can be a beautiful abstraction and a real pain in the neck. It's an evanescent ideal that sometimes takes shape in historic movements. And it's the cosmic force behind Sheila Weller as she tries to...

Without the refresher course of last week's news stories about the Nobel Prize, I couldn't have named the characters in "The Golden Notebook" or reconstructed a scene or even given a good synopsis of the plot. I still consider it one of the most...

(NC-17). Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbetto's documentary about the porn film that incited censorship wars and gave the Watergate informer his name is as souped-up, in-your-face and god-awfully irresistible as a Humvee limo. 1:32 (explicit sexuality)....

2½ stars (out of 4) Helen Gurley Brown uses semen as a face cream. Wes Craven started his career in smut. Dick Cavett wants to watch a porn film right now. These and other salacious tidbits are yours courtesy of Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's...

By turns funny and sobering, sweeping and intimate, the consistently entertaining "Inside Deep Throat" plays like a giddy prance through the minefield of the last three decades of American sex and politics. It's a timeless story, really. Bawdy, can-do...

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Recently, the newly minted R&B star Mya was in a Los Angeles studio with what might qualify as a cross-section of her peers -- Christina Aguilera, Pink and Lil' Kim -- recording a cover of Labelle's '70s hit "Lady Marmalade" for the upcoming Nicole Kidman...