On Oct. 11, in Brighton, England, two girls were asked to either stop being affectionate towards each other or to leave the Sainsbury’s grocery store they were in by a security guard after a customer...

It’s fall in Columbia. Football season is in full swing, Walmart is selling Christmas decorations, and pumpkin flavor is being infused into every food and drink imaginable. Fall also means that it is...

Now that it’s fall, pumpkin spice drinks, scarves and fuzzy socks have asserted their presence into our lives (or at least mine). One other noticeable thing is happening around campus as well: Tours. Ah,...

Now that [IUDs and other implantable devices are getting near unanimous thumbs up](http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-birth-control-shift/380952/), I asked my roommate, who’s had an...

After the tremendous victories for marriage equality that came about these past few weeks, many American citizens would think this is the end of the fight for LGBT rights. Many people believe marriage...

In my 20 years on this planet, I have learned a few things. For example, never suggest a woman is pregnant unless you see a baby coming out of her at that moment. Don’t take a laxative after you take...

Court is in session. On Monday, the Supreme Court took to session for the tenth time under Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Hopefully this session, justice will be served in the form of marriage equality. Sunday...

Last week marked an important advancement in equality for same-sex couples in Missouri: A court ruled the state’s refusal to recognize legal same-sex marriages performed out of state was unconstitutional....

I never skipped class in high school. Not because of any moral obligation I had to attend or to better myself, but because I wasn’t _good_ enough to get a full-ride athletic scholarship, and I knew I...

Thanks to the likes of Cosmo, Gossip Girl and the wide, wonderful world of porn, we have it ingrained in our minds that between-the-sheets-on-a-mattress-horizontal sex is for dweebs. And since my goal...

I’d like to begin this week by apologizing for offending people in last week’s column. I did not mean to criticize sexual assault victims, as my entire passage was about how we should not ever blame...

As men we should look to our daughters, our sisters, mothers and grandmothers and ask them whether or not they should make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men because [according to the White House](http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/equal-pay#top),...