Sources

CHAPTER 1: A Wednesday in November

Interviews: Lucia Brawley, David Ewing Duncan, Michael Mendelsohn, Cullen Murphy.

American Psychological Association, “Study Shows a Significant Increase in Sexual Content on TV,” apa.org, May 2001.

Nicholas Bakalar, “Triplet and Higher-Order Births in U.S. Down 41%,” New York Times, May 30, 2016.

Jonathan Bernstein, “Surviving the Fall,” Spin, October 1995, 126.

Andrew J. Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (New York: Knopf, 2009), 15.

William J. Clinton, “Inaugural Address,” January 20, 1993, American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=46366.

“Clinton Accused: Time Line,” Washington Post, September 13, 1998, A32.

Adam Cohen, “The Speaker Who Never Was,” Time, December 21, 1998.

Steve Conner, “Nobel Prize for Work That Led to Viagra Discovery,” Independent, October 12, 1998.

Mary H. J. Farrell, “The Trumps Head for Divorce Court,” People, February 26, 1990.

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents [1930] (New York: Norton, 1961), 44.

Steven M. Gillon, The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry That Defined a Generation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 162.

Dan Gilgoff, The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War (New York: St. Martin’s, 2008), 104.

Bill Glauber, “Diana to Spill the Royal Beans…,” Baltimore Sun, November 15, 1995.

Carey Goldberg, “Redefining a Marriage Made New in Vermont,” New York Times, December 26, 1999.

Hawes Publications, “The New York Times Best Seller List,” Hawes.com, www.hawes.com/1995/1995-11-26.pdf. (Note: According to a Times spokesperson, the list is routinely announced on the preceding Wednesday.)

Marcia E. Herman-Giddens et al., “Secondary Sexual Characteristics and Menses in Young Girls Seen in Office Practice: A Study from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings Network,” Pediatrics 99, no. 4 (April 1997).

Sean Holton, “It’s History or Was It Just a Day at Hooters?,” Orlando Sentinel, November 16, 1995.

“Inquiry into Calvin Klein Ads Dropped,” Associated Press via New York Times, November 16, 1995.

Ryan Jaslow, “Aging Dads More Likely to Have Kids with Autism, ADHD, Schizophrenia and More,” CBSNews.com, February 26, 2014.

“Justice Department Plans No Charges over Calvin Klein Ads,” Associated Press via Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1995.

Gina Kolata, “U.S. Approves Sale of Impotence Pill; Huge Market Seen,” New York Times, March 28, 1998.

Howard Kurtz, Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (New York: Free Press, 1998), 150.

Jennifer Latson, “The Princess Diana TV Interview That Made History,” Time.com, November 20, 2014.

Mark Leibovich, “Being Hillary,” New York Times Magazine, July 19, 2015, 52.

Michael D. Lemonick, “Teens Before Their Time,” Time, October 22, 2000.

Robert Lenzner, “The Bernanke Bull Market Is the Third Strongest in Modern Stock Market History,” Forbes, July 22, 2013.

David Leonhardt and Geraldine Fabrikant, “After 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall,” New York Times, August 21, 2009, A1, 16.

Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud [1955] (New York: Vintage, 1962), vii–x, 3, 183–85, 193–97.

Claire Cain Miller, “The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On,” New York Times, December 2, 2014.

Brian Naylor, “Not-So-Fond Memories from the Last Government Shutdowns,” NPR.org, September 20, 2013.

“Netscape Announces Plan to Split Stock 2-for-1,” Bloomberg Business News via New York Times, November 15, 1995.

Frank Newport, “Presidential Job Approval: Bill Clinton’s High Ratings in the Midst of Crisis, 1998,” Gallup.com, June 4, 1999.

“The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998” (press release), NobelPrize.org, October 12, 1998, www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1998/press.html.

Ashley Reich, “Newt Gingrich: Marriages, Divorces, Affairs Timeline,” Huffington Post, May 11, 2011.

Joshua Rich, “Countdown! The 10 Best Bond Girls,” Entertainment Weekly, March 30, 2007.

Lydia Saad, “Americans Choose ‘Pro-Choice’ for First Time in Seven Years,” Gallup.com, May 29, 2015.

David Sanger, “Government Shutdown Cost Is Estimated at $700 Million,” New York Times, November 23, 1995.

Janny Scott, “A Media Race Enters Waters Still Uncharted,” New York Times, February 1, 1998, A1, 19.

David Segal, “Hooters Vows to Decide Where the Boys Aren’t,” Washington Post, November 16, 1995.

, “Naming the ’00s,” New York Times, November 15, 2001.

Leonard Sloane, “Broad-Based Stock Rally Is Continuing,” New York Times, November 17, 1995.

Donald J. Trump, “The Inaugural Address,” January 20, 2017, www.whitehouse.gov/inaugural-address.

Louis Uchitelle, “The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age,” New York Times, July 15, 2007.

Josh Voorhees, “The New York Times Drops an F-Bomb, but Was It the Grey Lady’s First?,” Slate, August 26, 2013.

Washington Post, eds., The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair (New York: PublicAffairs, 1998), xiii, 50–52.

Elizabeth Weil, “The Incredible Shrinking Childhood: How Early Is Too Early for Puberty?,” New York Times Magazine, April 1, 2012, 32–33.

Paul Weyrich, “Letter to Conservatives,” February 16, 1999, www.nationalcenter.org/Weyrich299.html.

CHAPTER 2: Down the Rabbit Hole

Interviews: Michael Davidson, Helen Fisher, Richard Friend, Peggy Samuels, Harriet Seitler, Jamieson Webster.

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America [1962] (New York: Vintage, 1992).

David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 10–11.

Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City (New York: Grand Central, 1996), vii–viii, 54, 61.

, “Sex and the City: New York’s Last Seduction—Loving Mr. Big,” New York Observer, April 24, 1995.

Tamal M. Edwards, “Who Needs a Husband?: Single by Choice,” Time, August 28, 2000.

Helen Fisher, Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray (New York: Ballantine, 1994), 72, 154, 164.

, “Why We Love, Why We Cheat,” TED Talk, September 2006, www.ted.com/speakers/helen_fisher.html.

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, An Introduction [1976] (New York: Vintage, 1990), 3–5, 32–33, 47–48, 156.

Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization [1928] (New York: HarperCollins, 2001).

Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967).

“Most Memorable Quotes from ‘Sex and the City,’ New York Daily News, May 16, 2008.

Douglas Palmer, Seven Million Years: The Story of Human Evolution (London: Phoenix, 2006).

Amy Sohn, Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell (New York: Pocket, 2004).

Margaret Talbot, “Girls Will Be Girls,” New Yorker, April 16, 2012, 39.

Timothy Taylor, The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture (New York: Bantam, 1997).

Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (New York: Penguin, 2006).

Heather Wagner, “How Sex Changed the City,” VanityFair.com, May 27, 2010.

CHAPTER 3: The Night We Met the Clintons

Interviews: James Carville, Gary Ginsberg, Jim Kennedy, Steve Kroft, Mary Matalin, Mark McKinnon, Mike Murphy, Dee Dee Myers.

Peter Baker and Lorraine Adams, “Clinton Team Picks Apart Jones’s Life,” Washington Post, February 23, 1998.

Dan Balz, “Clinton Concedes Marital ‘Wrongdoing,’” Washington Post, January 27, 1992, A1.

Richard L. Berke, “Democrats Hope to Persuade Voters to Tune In to Tradition,” New York Times, July 6, 1992.

Sidney Blumenthal, “The Secret War for the White House,” Vanity Fair, June 1992, 60–64.

David Brock, “Living with the Clintons,” American Spectator, January 1994.

John Carmody, “The TV Column,” Washington Post, January 28, 1992.

George J. Church, “Is Bill Clinton for Real?,” Time, January 27, 1992.

Francis X. Clines, “At Breakfast with Godfrey (Budge) Sperling, Jr.; Politicians and the Press, Once Over,” New York Times, January 10, 1996.

Bill Clinton, “Dukakis Nomination as Presidential Candidate,” C-SPAN Video Library, July 20, 1988.

, My Life (New York: Vintage, 2005) 385–86.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Scribner, 2003), 107.

E. J. Dionne Jr., “Clinton Traces Decision Not to Run for President to Family Obligations,” New York Times, August 16, 1987.

Maureen Dowd, “The Comeback Vegan,” New York Times, September 5, 2012, A27.

“Excerpts from Depositions Taken by Clinton’s Lawyer, Gennifer Flowers,” New York Daily News, March 21, 1998.

“Gennifer Flowers,” CNN.com, 1996, http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/democrat/clinton/skeletons/flowers.shtml.

Gennifer Flowers with Jacquelyn Dapper, Passion and Betrayal (Del Mar, CA: Emery Dalton, 1995), 1–6, 54, 86–91, 95, 103, 157–58.

Ken Gormley, The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr (New York: Broadway, 2010), 177–78.

Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, directors, The War Room, 1993, produced by R. J. Cutler, Wendy Ettinger, and Frazer Pennebaker.

Don Hewitt, Tell Me a Story (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 183.

“In 1992, Clinton Conceded Marital ‘Wrongdoing,’” Washington Post, January 26, 1992.

Joe Klein, “Bill Clinton: Who Is This Guy?,” New York, January 20, 1992.

Steve Kornacki, “When Bill Clinton Died Onstage,” Salon, July 30, 2012.

Steve Kroft, “Governor & Mrs. Clinton,” 60 Minutes, CBS News, January 26, 1992, produced by L. Franklin Devine, available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwXE52e9JFg.

Howard Kurtz, Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (New York: Free Press, 1998), 150.

Gene Lyons, “The Roots of the Clinton Smear,” Salon, February 5, 1998.

Norman Mailer, “Tough Guys Don’t Dance” (book excerpt), Vanity Fair, August 2002, 79.

David Maraniss, First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 438–41.

Mary Matalin and James Carville with Peter Knobler, All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 6–7, 103–11.

Dick Morris, Behind the Oval Office: Getting Reelected Against All Odds (New York: St. Martin’s, 1999), xxx.

“My 12-Year Affair Bill Clinton,” Star, February 6, 1992.

“Political Rivals to Marital Partners,” New York Times, November 26, 1993.

Thomas B. Rosenstiel, “Clinton Allegation Raises Questions on Media’s Role,” Los Angeles Times, January 29, 1992.

Gail Sheehy, “Hillary’s Choice,” Vanity Fair, February 1999.

Hedrick Smith, The People and the Power Game, PBS, 1996, Hedrick Smith Productions in association with South Carolina Educational Television, produced by Pat Roddy and Barak Goodman.

George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human: A Political Education (Boston: Little, Brown, 1999), 31, 54, 56–62, 64–67.

David Stout, “Testing of a President: The Other Woman; Flowers Acknowledges Earning $500,000 from Scandal,” New York Times, March 21, 1998.

Pat Summerall and Jon Madden, “Super Bowl XXVI,” video courtesy CBS Sports via CBS News, January 26, 1992.

Michael Takiff, A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010), 113.

Clive Thompson, “The Blog Establishment: The Early Years,” NYMag.com, http://nymag.com/news/media/15971/.

CHAPTER 4: The Bubba Boomer

Interviews: Harry Benson, Douglas Brinkley, Dee Dee Myers, J. P. Pappis, Nancy Paulsen, Jamieson Webster.

R. W. Apple Jr., “Edward S. Muskie” (obituary), New York Times, March 27, 1996.

Karen Ball, “It’s in the Cards,” New Yorker, March 31, 1997, 35.

Paul Begala, “The Worst Generation,” Esquire, April 2000.

William J. Bennett, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (New York: Touchstone, 1999), 24.

Harry Benson, First Families: An Intimate Portrait from the Kennedys to the Clintons, edited by Gigi Benson and David Friend (Boston: Bulfinch, 1997), 122–23.

Donald Bernhardt and Marshall Eckblad, “Black Monday: The Stock Market Crash of 1987,” FederalReserveHistory.org.

“Bill Loves Bill,” New York Post, “Page Six,” September 30, 2000.

Karen Breslau, “Hillary Clinton’s Emotional Moment,” Newsweek, January 6, 2008.

William F. Buckley Jr. and Harry Benson, “The Way They Are,” Vanity Fair, June 1985.

David G. Cannon, Hey, Bubba!: A Metaphysical Guide to the Good Ol’ Boy (Atlanta: Peachtree, 1990), vii, 3–9, 28, 73.

Graydon Carter and David Friend, eds., Vanity Fair’s Hollywood (New York: Viking Studio, 2000), 10–11.

Eleanor Clift, “Shooting Down Birds—And Rumors,” Newsweek, January 9, 1994.

Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Random House/Vintage, 2004), 4, 8–15, 19–26, 30–31, 39–40, 48–52, 55–63, 67, 246, 315, 365–66.

, “Interview on MTV’s ‘Enough Is Enough’ Forum,” April 19, 1994, American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=49995.

, “Remarks at the DNC,” delivered September 5, 2012, Charlotte, NC, via CBSNews.com, www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-bill-clintons-remarks-at-the-dnc/.

Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson and His Times, 1961–1975 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 491.

Ann Devroy, “A Bonding Experience at Camp David,” Washington Post, February 5, 1993.

, “Camp David Sessions Set Distinct Tone—Clinton Aides and Cabinet Join in Teamwork Exercises,” Washington Post, February 7, 1993.

“‘Doonesbury’ at 35: Still Spry or Showing Its Age?,” Editor & Publisher, November 12, 2005.

Maureen Dowd, “Fighting the Wimp Factor,” New York Times, February 16, 2000.

Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame, “Warrior for the Status Quo” [Box: “Atwater on Defeating Bush”], Time, August 24, 1992, 35.

Laura Fitzpatrick, “Top 10 MTV Moments,” Time.com, February 10, 2010.

Gennifer Flowers with Jacquelyn Dapper, Passion and Betrayal (Del Mar, CA: Emery Dalton, 1995), 77.

David Friend, “Nobody Loved It Better,” Vanity Fair, December 2000.

, Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006), 61.

“The Choice ’96,” interview with Paul Greenberg, Frontline, PBS, www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice/bill/greenberg.html.

Steve Gillon, Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever and How It Changed America (New York: Free Press, 2004), 2–4, 8, 13.

Elisabeth Goodridge, “Front-Runner Ed Muskie’s Tears (or Melted Snow?) Hurt His Presidential Bid,” U.S. News & World Report, January 17, 2008.

Paul Greenberg, “Why Yes, I Did Dub Bill Clinton ‘Slick Willie,’” Free Lance–Star (Fredericksburg, VA), June 28, 2004.

Jack Healy, “Dow, First Time in a Year, Breaks Through 10,000,” New York Times, October 14, 2009.

Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, directors, The War Room, 1993, produced by R. J. Cutler, Wendy Ettinger, and Frazer Pennebaker.

David Itzkoff, “Comedy Ahead of Its Time (If That Time Ever Comes),” New York Times, May 7, 2009.

Douglas Jehl, “Bill, Hillary and Other Plain Folks Are All Set for One Heady Weekend,” New York Times, December 31, 1993.

, “A Mustang and a Boy Named Bill,” New York Times, April 18, 1994.

Virginia Kelley with James Morgan, Leading with My Heart (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 296.

Michael Kinsley, “The Least We Can Do,” Atlantic, October 2010, 62–72.

Joe Klein, The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 59.

Michael Kruse, “The Woman Who Made Hillary Cry,” Politico.com, April 21, 2015.

Howard Kurtz, Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (New York: Free Press, 1998), 71–73.

Wendy Leigh, “Marilyn and Jackie’s 11-Year Itch,” Guardian, June 22, 2003.

David Maraniss, First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 21–31, 39–41.

Mary Matalin and James Carville with Peter Knobler, All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 85, 129–31.

Bill Maxwell, “Clinton’s Earthy, Southern Personality Allows the Bashers to Get Personal,” Gainesville (FL) Sun, June 3, 1994.

, “Who Is ‘Bubba’ Anyway and What Is ‘the Bubba Factor’?,” Gainesville (FL) Sun, March 20, 1992.

Kevin Merida, “It’s Come to This: A Nickname That’s Proven Hard to Slip,” Washington Post, December 20, 1998.

Dick Morris, Behind the Oval Office: Getting Reelected Against All Odds (New York: St. Martin’s, 1999), xiv, xviii, xxvi–vii, xxxii, 31, 84.

Joyce Carol Oates, “The Woman Before Hillary” (review of Virginia Kelley’s Leading with My Heart), New York Times Book Review, May 8, 1994.

“Oil Prices Up 87 Cents at Year-End,” Associated Press via New York Times, January 1, 1991.

“Petroleum Chronology of Events 1970–2000,” U.S. Energy Information Administration, www.eia.gov.

John Powers, “The Kennedy Mystique Explained in Ten Words,” Vogue.com, November 11, 2013.

Todd S. Purdum, “In Brief Visit, Clinton Shmoozes at Renaissance Meeting,” New York Times, January 1, 1995.

, “At Home with Virginia Kelley; Bets Dark Horses. Raised One, Too,” New York Times, August 13, 1992.

Andrew Rosenthal, “Bush Encounters the Supermarket, Amazed,” New York Times, February 5, 1992.

Shelley Ross, Fall from Grace: Sex, Scandal, and Corruption in American Politics from 1702 to the Present (New York: Ballantine, 1988), xiii–xv.

William Safire, “Bubba, Can You Paradigm?,” New York Times, October 21, 1990.

, Safire’s Political Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, based on Random House Reference, 1993), 85.

Gail Sheehy, “Hillary’s Choice,” Vanity Fair, February 1999.

Philip Sherwell, “Bill Clinton’s Temper May Be a Liability for Hillary,” Telegraph, January 19, 2008.

John Solomon, “A Wimp He Wasn’t,” Newsweek, March 20, 2011.

Steven D. Stark, “Practicing Inclusion, Consensus: Clinton’s Feminization of Politics,” Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1993.

Jennifer Steinhauer, “John Boehner and the Politics of Crying,” New York Times, November 7, 2010, WK4.

George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human: A Political Education (Boston: Little, Brown, 1999), 135–36.

Sara Stewart, “All the President’s Women,” New York Post, November 10, 2013.

Ben Train, “Air Elvis,” Vanity Fair, October 1992, 84.

G. B. Trudeau, “G. B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury” (syndicated cartoon strip, Washington Post), November 3, 1984, doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/timeline/1980.

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., “Adding Up the Election’s Most Telling Results,” Washington Times, November 8, 1992.

Celia Walden, “As Francois Hollande Visits America, Will Women Swoon over This Gallic Lothario?,” Telegraph, February 10, 2014.

Margaret Garrard Warner, “Bush Battles the ‘Wimp Factor,’” Newsweek, October 19, 1987.

Jennifer Warren, “For Clinton Press Aide, Climb Was Steep, Rapid,” Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1992.

Marjorie Williams, “Day of the Jackals,” Vanity Fair, November 1996, 88.

, “Love on the Run,” Vanity Fair, July 1994, 78.

Michael Wolff, “The Kennedys: Is Sex Part of History?,” Newser.com, February 18, 2010.

Bob Woodward, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 28, 255, 278–80, 324.

CHAPTER 5: On the Third Wave

Interviews: Susie Bright, Alan Cumming, Julianne Pepitone, Kirsten Swinth, Jill Vermeire.

Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future [2000] (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), xii, 14–15, 21, 79, 91–92, 130–37, 242–43, 255, 276, 290–91.

Sarah Boxer, “One Casualty of the Women’s Movement,” New York Times, December 14, 1997.

Sarah Crichton with Debra Rosenberg, “Sexual Correctness: Has It Gone Too Far?,” Newsweek, October 25, 1993.

Lizzie Crocker, “Stop Moaning About Women’s Soccer Pay,” Daily Beast, July 10, 2015.

Charles R. Cross, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (New York: Hyperion, 2001), 167–69.

Barbara Crossette, “An Old Scourge of War Becomes Its Latest Crime,” New York Times, June 14, 1998.

David Davis, “How the Most Iconic Photo in Women’s Soccer Was Almost Never Taken,” Deadspin.com, June 8, 2015.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype [1992] (New York: Ballantine, 1997), 498.

Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women [1991] (New York: Three Rivers, 2006), xi–xii, 10–11, 243, 461, 466.

Ann Friedman, “Stop Pitting Women Against Each Other over Hillary Clinton,” The Cut, NYMag.com, February 9, 2016.

Tad Friend, “Yes” (or “The Rise of ‘Do Me’ Feminism”), Esquire, February 1994, 47–56.

John Gallagher, “Attack of the 50-Foot Lesbian,” Advocate, October 1994.

Steve Gillon, Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever and How It Changed America (New York: Free Press, 2004), 202.

Sander L. Gilman, Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), 244–45.

Melinda Henneberger, “Naomi Wolf, Feminist Consultant to Gore, Clarifies Her Campaign Role,” New York Times, November 5, 1999.

Kim Hubbard, “The Tyranny of Beauty,” People, June 24, 1991.

Kay S. Hymowitz, Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys (New York: Basic Books, 2011), 58, 67–71.

Caryn James, “Critic’s Notebook: Feminine Beauty as a Masculine Plot,” New York Times, May 7, 1991.

Michael Kimmel and Gloria Steinem, “‘Yes’ Is Better Than ‘No,’” New York Times, September 5, 2014, A27.

Rick Koster, “Lilith Fair-ness,” Houston Press, July 31, 1997.

Claire Landsbaum, “How the Success of Marvel’s Female Superheroes Heralds a More Inclusive Age of Comics,” Vulture.com, May 21, 2015.

Neil A. Lewis, “In Selecting Federal Judges, Clinton Has Not Tried to Reverse Republicans,” New York Times, August 1, 1996.

M. G. Lord, “This Pinup Drives Eggheads Wild,” Newsday, October 6, 1991.

Charles McGrath, “Why a Fallen Angel Is a Centerfold,” New York Times, November 6, 2011, SR5.

Terry McMillan, Waiting to Exhale [1992] (New York: NAL, 2006), 101, 213, 346–48, 398.

Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010), 16, 19, 25–27, 38, 42, 76–81, 89.

Michele Moses, “Erasing Feminism from Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” New Yorker, May 13, 2015.

Rebecca Munford, “Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss: Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power,” in Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration, edited by Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 266–274.

Dee Dee Myers, Why Women Should Rule the World (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 88–89.

Clarence Page, “‘Thelma & Louise’: A Reel-Life Tale of Women and Power,” Chicago Tribune, June 12, 1991.

Camille Paglia, “Perspective Needed—Feminism’s Life: Denying Reality About Sexual Power and Rape,” Newsday via Seattle Times, February 17, 1991.

, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (New York: Vintage, 1992), xi, 24, 37, 49–54, 68, 101–24, 242, 264–65, 269, 303–5, 319.

, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (New York: Vintage, 1991), 5–12, 17–20, 23, 27–31.

Lisa Palac, The Edge of the Bed: How Dirty Pictures Changed My Life (Boston: Little, Brown, 1997), 160.

Ashley Parker, “Road Trip Helps Romney Brush Up on Banter,” New York Times, June 18, 2012.

Marc Peyser and Johnnie L. Roberts, “The Katie Factor,” Newsweek, April 17, 2006.

Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (New York: Ballantine, 1994), 12–13, 23, 27–28, 53, 70, 218–19.

Carla Power, “Sex Objects, Sex Subjects,” Newsweek, January 5, 1998.

“Progressive Era to New Era, 1900–1929: Women’s Suffrage in the Progressive Era,” Library of Congress, loc.gov/teachers.

Katie Roiphe, “Date Rape Hysteria,” New York Times, November 20, 1991.

Melena Ryzik, “A Feminist Riot That Still Inspires,” New York Times, June 5, 2011, AR20.

David Sheff, “Playboy Interview: Camille Paglia,” Playboy, May 1995.

Francesca Stanfill, “Woman Warrior,” New York, March 4, 1991.

Alessandra Stanley, “Semantics Stalls Pact Labeling Rape as a War Crime,” New York Times, July 9, 1998, A3.

Betsey Stevenson, “Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports,” Contemporary Economic Policy 25 (2007): 486–505.

Katie Thomas, “Sexual Violence: Weapon of War,” Forced Migration Review, January 2007, 16.

Karen Tumulty, “Twenty Years On, ‘The Year of the Woman’ Fades,” Washington Post, March 24, 2012.

Brad Tuttle, “Women’s Soccer Gets a Parade and Huge TV Ratings, but Not Equal Pay,” Money, July 10, 2015.

Sheila Weller, “The Ride of a Lifetime: The Making of Thelma & Louise,” Vanity Fair, March 2011.

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women [1991] (New York: Harper Perennial, 2002), 10–13, 16, 171, 208, 281.

CHAPTER 6: Empowerment Icons

Interviews: Bruce Handy, Anita Hill, Jim Kelly, Joel Paul, Terence Pepper, Howard Read, Ingrid Sischy, Joan Williams.

Jill Abramson, “Women on the Verge of the Law: From Anita Hill to Sonia Sotomayor,” New York Times, July 18, 2009, WK1, 3.

“ASME’s Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years,” American Society of Magazine Editors, Magazine.org, October 17, 2005.

Peter Baker and Amy Chozik, “Hillary Clinton’s History as First Lady: Powerful, but Not Always Deft,” New York Times, December 5, 2014, A1, 13.

“Biden Runs Better Than Clinton Against Top Republicans” (press release), Quinnipiac University, August 27, 2015.

David Brock, Blinded by the Right: Confessions of an Ex-Conservative (New York: Three Rivers, 2002), 95, 100–102, 107, 121–24, 259, 270, 346–48.

, The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story (New York: Free Press, 1993).

David Brooks, “Hillary Clinton’s Big Test,” New York Times, March 13, 2015, A29.

Libby Brooks, “Gay for Today,” Guardian, November 2, 1999.

Roger Catlin, “You Can Tell This Book by Its Cover,” Hartford Courant, October 21, 1992.

“Chicago Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival: The Real Ellen Story,” Chicago Reader, November 12, 1998.

Amy Chozik, “Clinton Faces Test of Record Aiding Women,” New York Times, March 9, 2015, A1, 11.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Scribner, 2003), 119.

, “Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women, Plenary Session,” Beijing, September 5, 1995, www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hillaryclintonbeijingspeech.htm.

Adam Clymer, “Strom Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100,” New York Times, June 27, 2003.

Andrew Cohen, “The Sad Legacy of Robert Bork,” Atlantic, December 2012.

Nancy Collins and Annie Leibovitz, “Demi’s Big Moment,” Vanity Fair, August 1991, 8, 96–101.

Jennet Conant and Annie Leibovitz, “Demi’s Body Language,” Vanity Fair, August 1992, 118.

Michael Crowley, “Sen. Orrin Hatch,” Slate, February 20, 2004.

Elizabeth Diaz, “Hillary Clinton: Anchored by Faith,” Time (special issue), Hillary: An American Life, June 27, 2014.

Maureen Dowd, “Supremely Bad Judgment,” New York Times, October 24, 2010.

, “When Hillary Killed Feminism,” New York Times, February 14, 2016, SR9.

Alan Duke, “Strom Thurmond’s Secret Biracial Daughter Dies at 87,” CNN.com, February 6, 2013.

“Ellen to Dine with President,” Reuters via ABCNews.com, November 6, 1997.

Priya Elan, “Looking Back at Madonna and Sex,” Guardian, April 25, 2012.

Em & Lo, “Of MILF and Men,” New York Times Magazine, April 22, 2007.

Emma Green, “A Lot Has Changed in Congress Since 1992, the ‘Year of the Woman,’” Atlantic, September 2013.

Jim Farber, “Dancers in Madonna’s ‘Truth or Dare’ Had Truths of Their Own,” New York Times, April 13, 2016, C1, 6.

Thomas Friedman, “Moore’s Law Turns 50,” New York Times, May 13, 2015, A27.

David Friend, in Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age, edited by Graydon Carter with David Friend (New York: Abrams, 2013), 292–93.

, “Vanity Fair, 1983–Now: A New Magazine for a New Age,” in Vanity Fair: The Portraits: A Century of Iconic Images, edited by Graydon Carter with David Friend (New York: Abrams, 2008), 23.

Vicki Goldberg, “Madonna’s Book: Sex, and Not Like a Virgin,” New York Times, October 25, 1992.

Andrew Goldman, “Anita Hill’s Long Memory,” New York Times, September 30, 2011.

Marcia D. Greenberger, “What Anita Hill Did for America,” CNN.com, Oct. 22, 2010.

Linda Greenhouse, “Bork’s Nomination is Rejected, 58–42; Reagan ‘Saddened,’” New York Times, October 24, 1987.

, “Supreme Court Rejects Clinton’s Request for Delay in Paula Jones Suit,” New York Times, May 28, 1997.

Bruce Handy, “Roll Over, Ward Cleaver,” Time, April 14, 1997.

Patrick Healy, “Early in 2016 Race, Clinton’s Toughest Foe Appears to Be the News Media,” New York Times, March 12, 2015, A18.

Bill Hewitt, “She Could Not Keep Silent,” People, October 28, 1991.

Anita Hill, “The Smear This Time,” New York Times, October 2, 2007.

Christopher Hitchens, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?,” Vanity Fair, September 1993, 74–80.

Stephen Holden, “Madonna Makes a $600 Million Deal,” New York Times, April 20, 1992.

, “Madonna Video Goes Too Far for MTV,” New York Times, November 28, 1990.

Caryn James, “Beneath All That Black Lace Beats the Heart of a Bimbo…,” New York Times, December 16, 1990.

Jackie Judd and Ted Koppel, “Making Hillary Clinton an Issue,” Nightline, ABC News, March 26, 1992.

Michiko Kakutani, “Madonna Writes; Academics Explore Her Erotic Semiotics,” New York Times, October 21, 1992.

Tamara Keith, “Hillary Clinton’s Privacy Problem,” All Things Considered, NPR, March 12, 2015.

Michael Kelly, “Saint Hillary,” New York Times Magazine, May 23, 1993.

Alex Keshishian, director, Madonna: Truth or Dare, Boy Toy, Inc., Propaganda Films, Miramax, 1991, produced by Madonna et al.

Laura Kipnis, “Medusa for President,” in Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers, edited by Susan Morrison (New York: Harper, 2008), 152–53, 157.

Elizabeth Kolbert, “Most in National Survey Say Judge Is More Believable,” New York Times, October 15, 1991.

Nicholas Kristof, “Debunking the ‘Crooked Hillary’ Myth,” New York Times, April 24, 2016, SR11.

Howard Kurtz, Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (New York: Free Press, 1998), 78, 83–84.

Clifford Krauss, “The Old Order Changes In Congress—A Little,” New York Times, November 8, 1992.

Steve Labaton, “Elusive Papers of Law Firm Are Found at White House,” New York Times, January 6, 1996, A1, 7.

Robert La Franco, “Madonna’s Hedge,” Forbes, September 23, 1996.

Sam Lansky, “Staying in Vogue,” Time, March 9, 2015, 46–47.

Annie Leibovitz, “Annie Gets Her Shot,” Vanity Fair, October 2008.

, Annie Leibovitz at Work (New York: Random House, 2008).

“Letters (to the Editor): The Naked Truth,” Vanity Fair, October 1991, 36–40.

Ariel Levy, “Cheating,” in Morrison, Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary Clinton, 91.

Ryan Lizza, “How to Beat Hillary Clinton,” New Yorker, October 13, 2015.

Madonna, Sex (New York: Warner, 1992).

Norman Mailer, “Women We Love: Norman Mailer on Madonna,” Esquire, August 1994.

Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010), 24.

Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas (New York: Plume, 1995), 55–57, 105–11, 115, 130–39, 215, 221–37, 241–42, 248–51, 330–31.

Lorrie Moore, “Boys and Girls,” in Morrison, Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary Clinton, 33.

“Most Admired Man and Woman,” Gallup.com, December 27, 2016.

Emily Nussbaum, “Justify My Love,” New York, August 3, 2009, 49–52.

Maureen Orth, “Madonna in Wonderland,” Vanity Fair, October 1992, 206, 212, 298.

Camille Paglia, “Madonna II: Venus of the Radio Waves,” in Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (New York: Vintage, 1992), 6–13.

Chuck Philips, “Anger over Madonna Single,” Los Angeles Times, January 4, 1991.

Katha Pollitt, “Hillary Rotten,” in Morrison, Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary Clinton, 18.

Todd S. Purdum, “Hard Choice for White House on Hillary Clinton and China,” New York Times, August 17, 1995.

Anna Quindlen, “The End of Swagger,” Newsweek, February 3, 2009, 64.

Jonathan Rauch, “Why Hillary Clinton Needs to Be Two-Faced,” New York Times, October 23, 2016, SR3.

Hillary D. Rodham, “1969 Student Commencement Speech,” Wellesley College, Wellesley.edu.

Patrick Rogers, “Girls Night Out,” People, May 12, 1997.

Katie Roiphe, “In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risqué Remarks,” New York Times, November 13, 2011, SR4.

Alyssa Rosenberg, “How Coming Out Became Cool for Celebrities,” Atlantic, January 2012.

Austin Scaggs, “Madonna Looks Back: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, October 29, 2009, 51.

Matthew Schifrin and Peter Newcomb, “A Brain for Sin and a Bod for Business,” Forbes, October 1, 1990, 162–66.

Alex Seitz-Wald, “Clinton’s ‘Right-Wing Conspiracy’ Comes Full Circle with Trump Shake Up,” NBCNews.com, August 18, 2016.

Larry J. Sabato, “Media Frenzies in Our Time: Senator Robert Packwood’s History of Sexual Harassment—1992,” WashingtonPost.com, March 27, 1998.

“Senators For: Resolving Uncertainties in Favor of Nominee,” Washington Post, October 16, 1991.

Gail Sheehy, “Hillary’s Choice,” Vanity Fair, February 1999, 139.

Martha Sherrill, “Hillary Clinton’s Inner Politics,” Washington Post, May 6, 1993, D1.

Ingrid Sischy, “Madonna and Child,” Vanity Fair, March 1998, 212.

Jill Smolowe, “She Said, He Said,” Time, October 21, 1991.

Alessandra Stanley, “Ellen, ‘Idol’ and the Power of Niceness,” New York Times, April 4, 2010, AR1, 19.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Standing by Her Story,” New York Times, March 16, 2014, AR1, 16.

Kara Swisher, “We Love Lesbians! Or Do We?’ Hot Subculture—Or Just New Hurtful Stereotypes?,” Washington Post, July 18, 1993.

Brian Tau, “Hillary Clinton Hits Low on Favorability, Trustworthiness in Poll,” blogs.WSJ.org, August 27, 2015.

Virginia Lamp Thomas, “Breaking Silence,” People, November 11, 1991.

“The Thomas Nomination: Excerpts from Senate’s Hearings…,” New York Times, October 12, 1991.

: “Excerpts from Senate’s Hearings…,” New York Times, October 13, 1991.

: “Hearing Captures Big TV Audience,” New York Times, October 13, 1991.

: “Statements to Senators from Witnesses for Anita Hill,” New York Times, October 14, 1991.

Jeffrey Toobin, “Partners,” New Yorker, August 29, 2011, 41, 45–46.

Nina Totenberg, ed., Complete Transcripts of the Clarence Thomas–Anita Hill Hearings: October 11, 12, 13, 1991 (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2005).

Karen Tumulty, “Clintons and Controversy: The Circus Is Back in Town,” Washington Post, March 10, 2015.

Patrick E. Tyler, “Hillary Clinton, in China, Details Abuse of Women,” New York Times, September 6, 1995.

Wendy Wasserstein, “Hillary Clinton’s Muddled Legacy,” New York Times, August 25, 1998.

Jacob Weisberg, “Desperately Leaking Susan,” Vanity Fair, June 1996, 177.

James Wolcott, “Lover Girls,” Vanity Fair, June 1997, 67.

Ned Zeman, “A Stomach for Controversy,” Newsweek, July 22, 1991, 51.

CHAPTER 7: The Crying Game

Interviews: James Carville, Lanny Davis, Art Harris, Steve Kroft, Mark McKinnon, Dee Dee Myers, Dan Payne, Patricia Steele.

“Allegations of Clinton Marital Infidelity,” C-SPAN Video Library, Press Conference at Waldorf-Astoria, New York, NY, January 27, 1992, Dick Kaplan, Blake Hendricks, and Gennifer Flowers, www.c-spanvideo.org/program/23995-1.

Matt Bai, “Legend of the Fall,” New York Times Magazine, September 21, 2014, 39, 60.

Jim Bakker, “Transcript of… Personal Statement,” Charlotte Observer, March 20, 1987.

Randall Balmer, “Still Wrestling with the Devil: A Visit with Jimmy Swaggart Ten Years After His Fall,” Christianity Today, March 2, 1998.

Bart Barnes, “Marion Barry Dies at 78,” Washington Post, November 23, 2014.

Susan Wise Bauer, The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 3–5, 115–17, 143–51, 159–61, 174.

Emily Bazelon, “Mr. Home-Wrecker Goes to Washington,” Slate, May 8, 2007.

Richard L. Berke, “Formal Reprimand of Rep. Frank Is Urged by House Ethics Panel,” New York Times, July 20, 1990.

, “Panel Focused on Frank’s Use of Office,” New York Times, July 21, 1990.

Margaret Carlson, “A Skeleton in Barney’s Closet,” Time, September 25, 1989.

Janet Cawley, “Baby Boomers Ready to Accept the Torch,” Chicago Tribune, September 20, 1992.

“The Clinton Years,” ABC News Nightline and PBS Frontline, in association with WGBH Boston, January 15, 2001.

Bill Clinton, “Letter to Colonel Eugene Holmes” (Reserve Officer Training Corps), December 3, 1969, via Nightline, February 1992.

, My Life (New York: Random House/Vintage, 2004), 388–89, 392, 404.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Scribner, 2003), 106.

Laura Collins, “Two Decades After Her Affair with Bill Clinton, Gennifer Flowers Reveals…,” Daily Mail, September 18, 2013.

Jennet Conant, “The Ghost and Mr. Giuliani,” Vanity Fair, September 1997, 154–72.

Frank Davies, “A Good Story, Even Without Famous Son,” Baltimore Sun, May 9, 1994.

E. J. Dionne Jr., “Courting Danger: The Fall of Gary Hart,” New York Times, May 9, 1987.

, “Gary Hart, The Elusive Front-Runner,” New York Times, May 3, 1987.

, “Paper and Hart in Dispute over Article,” New York Times, May 4, 1987.

Gennifer Flowers with Jacquelyn Dapper, Passion and Betrayal (Del Mar, CA: Emery Dalton, 1995), 71–75, 110–14.

Barney Frank, Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015), 142–43.

Steven M. Gillon, The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry That Defined a Generation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 101.

Allan R. Gold, “Rep. Frank Acknowledges Hiring Male Prostitute as Personal Aide,” New York Times, August 26, 1989.

Barak Goodman, director, American Experience, “Clinton,” interview with Dee Dee Myers, PBS, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/interview/clinton-myers/.

Art Harris, Earl Miller, and Bob Guccione, “Gennifer Flowers,” Penthouse, December 1992, 66–76, 153–60.

Gary Hart, “Transcript of Hart Statement Withdrawing His Candidacy,” New York Times, May 9, 1987.

Patrick Healy, “Bill Clinton’s 1992 Make-or-Break Stand in New Hampshire,” New York Times, February 9, 2016.

Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, directors, The War Room, 1993, produced by R. J. Cutler, Wendy Ettinger, and Frazer Pennebaker.

Gwen Ifill, “Clinton Thanked Colonel in ’69 for ‘Saving Me from the Draft,’” New York Times, February 13, 1992.

Joan Kaufman, “The Fall of Jimmy Swaggart,” People, March 7, 1988.

Joe Klein, The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 24–25, 40–41.

Howard Kurtz, Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (New York: Free Press, 1998), 99.

Matt Labash, “A Rake’s Progress: Marion Barry Bares (Almost) All,” Weekly Standard, September 7, 2009.

Jim McGee, Tom Fiedler, and James Savage, “The Gary Hart Story: How It Happened,” Miami Herald, May 10, 1987.

Kira Marchenese and Sascha Segan, “Marion Barry: Making of a Mayor,” WashingtonPost.com, May 21, 1998.

David Maraniss, First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 439–43.

James Martinez, “Donna Rice Denies Spending Night with Gary Hart,” Associated Press, May 5, 1987.

Mary Matalin and James Carville with Peter Knobler, All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 112–13, 141–42, 167–68, 270.

Kate O’Beirne, “Bread and Circuses: Senator Bob Packwood’s Public and Private Stance on Women,” National Review, October 9, 1995.

Anne-Marie O’Neill, “Three’s a Crowd,” People, May 28, 2001.

Michael Oreskes, “Rep. Frank Asks for Full Inquiry by Ethics Panel,” New York Times, August 29, 1989.

Frank Phillips, “Frank Tells of His Despair During ’89 Sex Scandal,” Boston Globe, August 14, 2004.

Dick Polman, “Those Aren’t Rumors,” Smithsonian, April 2008.

Frank Rich, “She Gets Mail,” New York Times, April 8, 1998.

Alan Richman, “Donna Rice: ‘The Woman in Question,’” People, May 18, 1987.

Campbell Robertson, “Politicians Are Slowed by Scandal, but Many Still Win the Race,” New York Times, July 17, 2013.

Jack Rosenthal, “Echoes of the New Frontier,” New York Times, January 17, 2009.

Walter Shapiro, “Fall from Grace,” Time, May 18, 1987.

George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human: A Political Education (Boston: Little, Brown, 1999), 68–69, 74–75, 79, 86.

Michael Takiff, A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010), 113–15, 119, 121.

Steve Talbot, “Why the Public Hates the Press” (interview with Paul Taylor), Frontline, PBS, May 1996.

Robin Toner, “Hart Drops Race for White House in a Defiant Mood,” New York Times, May 9, 1987.

Thomas Vinciguerra, “My Bad: A Political Medley,” New York Times, June 9, 2011, A27.

Michael Wolff, “It’s the Adultery, Stupid,” Vanity Fair, June 2008, 94–98.

“Woman Riding in Swaggart Car Says She’s a Prostitute,” Associated Press via Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1991.

“The Women in Giuliani’s Life,” CBSNews.com, May 11, 2000.

Bob Woodward, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 32–33.

CHAPTER 8: A Vagina Travelogue

Interviews: Tommy Barrata, Jimmie Briggs, Nicole Daedone, Joey DelVecchio, Emel, Heidi Fleiss, Danielle G., George Hamilton, Sari Markowitz, John Marquis, Katherine Martin, Chris Napolitano, Kerry O’Day, Janea Padilha, Jonice Padilha, Joyce Padilha, Anna Maria Tornaghi.

Gary J. Alter, “Clitoropexy/Clitoral Hood Reduction,” www.altermd.com/clitoropexy_clitoral_hood_reduction.htm.

Patricia Bosworth, Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2011), 1.

Susannah Breslin, “Designer Vaginas,” Harper’s Bazaar, November 1998.

Paddy Calistro, “Guide to Los Angeles Area Beauty Spas,” Los Angeles, April 1995.

Stephanie Clifford, “Philosophical Waxing Eases the Ouch,” New York Times, April 17, 2010.

Robert Coover et al., Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds (San Francisco: Chronicle Books), 2007.

Rebecca DiLiberto, “Bikini Waxing,” In Style, May 2003.

“Directory/Waxing,” Allure, July 2007, 126.

Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross, “Betty’s Response to The Vagina Monologues,” DodsonandRoss.com, March 15, 2001.

Simon Doonan, “The Last Wax of Summer; Kate’s Cut Is a Triumph,” New York Observer, August 28, 2000.

Jancee Dunn, “The Man Who Loved Hair,” Allure, August 2003, 154–56.

Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues [1998] (New York: Villard, 2008), xxxix–xli, xliii, 6, 9, 19–21, 67–70, 105–11, 170–73, 198.

, “V to the Tenth,” Feminist.com, February 2008, www.feminist.com/violence/vday1.html.

Ashley Fetters, “The New Full-Frontal: Has Pubic Hair in America Gone Extinct?,” Atlantic, December 2011.

Krista Foss, “New Hot Cosmetic Surgery for Women,” Toronto Globe and Mail, November 10, 1998.

Yvonne K. Fulbright, “Should You Nip/Tuck Your Private Parts?,” FoxNews.com, May 20, 2008.

Fiona J. Green, “From Clitoridectomies to ‘Designer Vaginas’: The Medical Construction of Heteronormative Female Bodies and Sexuality Through Female Genital Cutting,” Sexualities, Evolution and Gender 7, no. 2 (August 2005): 153–87.

Germaine Greer, “This V-Word Is No Victory for Women,” Telegraph, March 1, 2002.

George Gurley, “What’s New, Pussycat? 90’s Women Adopt Sleek New Look Down Below,” New York Observer, November 23, 1998.

Carrie Havranek, “The New Sex Surgeries,” Cosmopolitan, November 1998.

Valli Herman-Cohen, “Gene Shacove, 72; Stars’ Hairstylist” (obituary), Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2001.

Christopher Hitchens, “On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part II,” Vanity Fair, December 2007.

Christina Hoff Sommers, “Sex, Lies, and The Vagina Monologues” (lecture), Young America’s Foundation 26th Annual National Conservative Student Conference, Washington DC, August 25, 2004, www.aei.org.

Jan Hoffman, “Doctors Worry About Women’s Preference for the Cleanshaven ‘Barbie Doll Look,’” New York Times, June 30, 2016, A16.

I Love Vagina, LLC, “About Us,” www.ilovevagina.net/aboutus.asp.

Rachel Johnson, “Bush Whacked,” Spectator, May 18, 2002.

Doree Lewak, “Gwyneth Paltrow’s Favorite Brazilian Waxers Are Broke,” New York Post, July 3, 2016.

Meika Loe, The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America (New York: New York University Press, 2004), 127.

Jill Mahoney, “Designer Vaginas: The Latest in Sex and Plastic Surgery,” Toronto Globe and Mail, August 13, 2005.

Douglas Martin, “Larry Mathews, a 24-Hour Hairdresser, Dies at 86,” New York Times, August 5, 2007.

Kaya Morgan, “Angus Mitchell: First Family of Hair,” Island Connections, www.islandconnections.com/edit/mitchell.htm.

Desmond Morris, The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body (New York: St. Martin’s, 2004), 198–200, 218.

Dominique Mosbergen, “G-Shot for Your G-Spot: Vagina Injection Said to Advance Sexual Pleasure Gains Popularity,” Huffington Post, October 23, 2012.

The Official I Love Vagina Blog, https://ilovevagina.wordpress.com/ilv-charity/.

Janea Padilha and Martha Frankel, Brazilian Sexy: Secrets to Living a Gorgeous and Confident Life (New York: Perigee, 2011), 12–13, 17, 30, 67, 74–75.

Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (New York: Vintage, 1991), 13–14.

Tony Pendleton, “Bikini Kill,” Notorious, September/October 1999, 56.

Katha Pollitt, Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Times (New York: Random House, 2006), 10.

Lisa Rapaport, “Designer Vagina Surgery Is a $5,500 Risk, Doctors Say,” Bloomberg.com, August 31, 2007.

Stephanie Rosenbloom, “What Did You Call It?,” New York Times, October 28, 2007.

“Sexy Brazilian, Secrets Included at J Sisters Salon,” Paris by Appointment Only, August 20, 2009, www.parisbao.com/international/sexy-brazilian-secrets-included-at-j-sisters-salon/.

Christine Shea, “Stop the Hair-Removal Insanity!,” Glamour, August 2004, 60–62.

Natasha Singer, “The Revised Birthday Suit,” New York Times, September 1, 2005.

Jill Smolowe, “Gone Too Soon,” People, November 5, 2001.

Amy Sohn, Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell (New York: Pocket, 2004), 96.

Joyce Wadler with Melena Z. Ryzik, “Boldface Names,” New York Times, March 10, 2004.

“Wax Job,” People, August 14, 2000.

“Vaginal Cosmetic Surgery: Labiaplasty, Vaginoplasty, and Clitoral Unhooding—Feminine Cosmetic Genital Surgery (FCGS),” LabiaplastySurgeon.com.

Christina Valhouli, “Faster Pussycat, Wax! Wax!,” Salon, March 9, 1999.

CHAPTER 9: The Glory of O

Interviews: Susie Bright, Patrick Carnes, Nicole Daedone, Colin Finlay, Harley, Reese Jones, Steven Kotler, Michael Mendelsohn, Nancy Paulsen, Racheli, Marta Salas-Porras, Linda Troeller.

Diane Ackerman, “Fruit Flies and Love,” New York Times, January 14, 2012, SR5.

Decca Aitkenhead, “The Buzz: How the Vibrator Came to Be,” Guardian, September 7, 2012.

Vanessa Allen, “That ‘Five Hours of Tantric Sex’ Was a Drunken Boast Says Trudie,” Daily Mail, December 29, 2011.

Daniel Bergner, “Women Who Want to Want,” New York Times Magazine, November 24, 2009.

Sarah Boxer, “Batteries Not Included,” New York Times, March 21, 1999.

William J. Broad, “I’ll Have What She’s Thinking,” New York Times, September 28, 2013.

Jane E. Brody, “Personal Health,” New York Times, April 17, 1985.

Patricia Leigh Brown and Carol Pogash, “The Pleasure Principle,” New York Times, March 13, 2009, ST1, 8–9.

Natasha Burton, “A Brief History of the Rabbit,” Cosmopolitan.com, February 9, 2015.

Michael Castleman, “Desire in Women: Does It Lead to Sex? Or Result from It?,” Psychology Today, July 15, 2009.

Haakon L. Chevalier, “The History of the Chevalier Estate,” 2009.

Tracy Clark-Flory, “Ready, Set, Masturbate!: The Mastermind Behind ‘International Masturbation Month,’” Salon, May 18, 2014.

Nicole Daedone, Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of Female Orgasm (New York: Grand Central, 2001).

Carol Anderson Darling and J. K. Davidson, “Enhancing Relationships: Understanding the Feminine Mystique of Pretending Orgasm,” Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 12, no. 3 (February 1986).

Adrian Deevoy, Cosmopolitan, April 1996, via Sting.com, www.sting.com/news/article/4182.

Sharon Doyle Driedger, “Mystical Passion,” Maclean’s, September 16, 1996, 44–45.

Maya Dusenbery, “Timeline: Female Hysteria and the Sex Toys Used to Treat It,” MotherJones.com, June 1, 2012.

Florence Fabricant, “After ‘L.A. Law,’ a Pursuit of Passions for Food and Life,” New York Times, May 22, 1996.

Bryony Gordon, “Trudie Styler: ‘Tantric Sex? All Day Long? With Sting? If Only…,’” Telegraph.co.uk, December 29, 2011.

Lori Gottlieb, “The Egalitarian-Marriage Conundrum,” New York Times Magazine, February 9, 2014, 32.

Anne Harding, “Rosemary Basson: Working to Normalise Women’s Sexual Reality,” Lancet, February 3, 2007.

“The History of Female Sex Toys,” Huffington Post (U.K.), February 10, 2014.

Hilary Howard, “Vibrators Carry the Conversation,” New York Times, April 20, 2011, E1, 9.

Douglas Jehl, “Surgeon General Forced to Resign by White House,” New York Times, December 10, 1994.

N. R. Kleinfeld, “How Cuisinart Lost Its Edge,” New York Times, April 15, 1990.

Carol Krucoff, “No Longer a Stretch: Yoga as Healing Tool,” Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2000.

Ruth La Ferla, “Good Vibrations, Upscale Division,” New York Times, October 3, 2004.

, “Toy Story, the Adult Version,” New York Times, January 8, 2009, E8.

Edward O. Laumann, Anthony Paik, and Raymond C. Rosen, “Sexual Dysfunction in the United States: Prevalence and Predictors,” Journal of the American Medical Association 281, no, 6 (February 10, 1999).

Ariel Levy, “Novelty Acts,” New Yorker, September 19, 2011, 84–87.

Rachel R. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).

Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality (New York: Summit, 1991).

Chris Mundy, “Sting: Mr. Natural,” Rolling Stone, May 27, 1993.

Tara Parker-Pope, “Estrogen Lowers Breast Cancer and Heart Attack Risk in Some,” NewYorkTimes.com, April 5, 2011.

Carol Queen, “Really Safe Sex: Relaxing, Healthy, Feels Good and It’s Free: Let’s Give a Hand for National Masturbation Month,” SFGate.com, May 26, 2002.

Frank Rich, “The Last Taboo,” New York Times, December 18, 1994.

Carlin Ross, “Betty Reintroducing the Electric Vibrator as a Pleasure Device,” DodsonandRoss.com, February 26, 2013.

Steve Rubenstein, “San Francisco ‘Feel-Good’ Fundraiser,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2009.

Melena Ryzik, “Company Finds ‘Grey’ and Pink Yield Pure Green,” New York Times, August 4, 2012, A8.

“‘Seven Hours Includes Movie and Dinner!’: Sting Clarifies Those Infamous Comments About Tantric Sex with Trudie Styler—Twenty-Four Years On,” Daily Mail, October 24, 2014.

Natasha Singer and Duff Wilson, “Menopause, as Brought to You by Big Pharma,” New York Times, December 13, 2009.

Mary Spicuzza, “Sex and Sensuality,” SF Weekly, April 4, 2007.

James Tapper, “Dad’s Tantric Sex? That Was Made Up by Bob Geldof, Says Sting’s Daughter Coco Sumner,” Daily Mail, August 17, 2009.

Christopher Trout, “The 46-year-old Sex Toy Hitachi Won’t Talk About,” Engadget.com, August 27, 2014.

“The Walk-Through: Stinson Beach Estate,” SFGate.com, August 5, 2009.

Kelsey Wallace, “May: The Merry, Merry Month of Masturbation!,” BitchMedia.com, May 18, 2009.

“WHI Study Data Confirm Short-Term Heart Disease Risks of Combination Hormone Therapy for Postmenopausal Women” (press release), National Institutes of Health, February 15, 2010.

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women [1991] (New York: Harper Perennial, 2002), 131–32.

“Writer Haakon Chevalier Dies at 83,” Associated Press via Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1985.

CHAPTER 10: Culture Warriors, Man Your Battle Stations

Interviews: Frank Rich, George Rider, Jennifer Rider, Susan Trento.

Gregory Acs et al., The Moynihan Report Revisited, via Urban Institute, Open Society Foundations, Fathers Incorporated, June 2013.

Laurence Barrett, “Pulpit Politics,” Time, August 31, 1992, 34.

David Bauder, “Odd Couple: Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan,” Associated Press via USA Today, June 10, 2008.

Max Blumenthal, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party, (New York: Nation Books, 2009), 24–25.

Sidney Blumenthal, “Christian Soldiers,” New Yorker, July 18, 1994.

David Brock, Blinded by the Right: Confessions of an Ex-Conservative (New York: Three Rivers, 2002), 132–37.

Patrick J. Buchanan, Address, Republican National Convention, Houston, August 17, 1992, Buchanan.org.

George Bush, “Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Houston,” August 20, 1992, American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=21352.

Bill Carter, “CBS Is Silent, but Then There’s the Next Season,” New York Times, May 21, 1992.

Census and You, U.S. Census Bureau, vol. 27, issue 1.

Adam Chandler, “The Sad Fate (but Historic Legacy) of the Houston Astrodome,” Atlantic, November 2013.

Bill Clinton, Acceptance Speech, Democratic National Convention, New York City, July 16, 1992, New York Times.

, My Life (New York: Vintage, 2004), 419–20, 425.

“Bill Clinton’s Vietnam Test” (editorial), New York Times, February 14, 1992.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Scribner, 2003), 84–85.

Adam Clymer, “Bush’s Gains from Convention Nearly Evaporate in Latest Poll,” New York Times, August 26, 1992.

Fred R. Conrad, “AIDS Activist Mary Fisher Is Defined by Words, Not Disease,” New York Times, August 23, 2012.

Cathleen Decker, “Clinton Makes Appeal to Conservatives in California,” Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1992.

Andrew Delbanco, “In the Kingdom of This World,” Washington Post Book World, July 7, 1996.

Maureen Dowd, “Been There, Done That,” New York Times, April 18, 1996.

Diane English, “Speaking of Dan Quayle and ‘Murphy Brown,’” Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2013.

“Family Matters,” Newsweek, August 31, 1992, 6.

Howard Fineman, “Playing the ‘V Word,’” Newsweek, June 8, 1992, 23.

and Ann McDaniel, “Bush: What Bounce?,” Newsweek, August 30, 1992.

Margalit Fox, “Erich Segal, Classicist Who Wrote Populist Blockbuster ‘Love Story,’ Dies at 72,” New York Times, January 20, 2010, A15.

David Frum, Dead Right (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 16–17, 21.

“George H. W. Bush: Impact and Legacy,” George H. W. Bush Home Page, Miller Center, MillerCenter.org.

“John Frohnmayer’s Noisy Exit” (editorial), New York Times, March 25, 1992.

Dan Gilgoff, The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War (New York: St. Martin’s, 2008), 96–99.

Elizabeth Glaser, “1992 Democratic National Convention Address,” New York, NY, July 14, 1992, www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/elizabethglaser1992dnc.htm.

Tom Gliatto, “Nobody’s Pussycat,” People, November 9, 1992.

Jonah Goldberg, “The Wisdom of Dan Quayle,” Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2013.

Laurie Goodstein and Pierre Thomas, “Clinic Killings Follow Years of Antiabortion Violence,” Washington Post, January 17, 1995, A1.

Bob Goodwin, “Bush’s New Hampshire Problem,” TheHill.com, October 30, 2015.

Lloyd Grove, “Media to the Left! Media to the Right! The GOP, Shooting the Messengers,” Washington Post, August 20, 1992.

Jane Hall and Judith Michaelson, “Murphy to Give Birth Again on Labor Day Rerun,” Los Angeles Times, May 22, 1992.

Emily Heil and Helena Andrews, “The Chelsea Clinton Cheat Sheet,” WashingtonPost.com, April 18, 2014.

Melinda Henneberger, “Author of ‘Love Story’ Disputes a Gore Story,” New York Times, December 14, 1997.

Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir (New York: Twelve, 2010), 106.

Jan Hoffman, “TV Shouts ‘Baby’ (and Barely Whispers ‘Abortion’),” New York Times, May 31, 1992.

Stephen A. Holmes, “Perot Says Democratic Surge Reduced Prospect of Victory,” New York Times, July 17, 1992.

William H. Honan, “Head of Endowment for the Arts Is Forced from His Post by Bush,” New York Times, February 22, 1992.

Jason Horowitz, “Inside Clinton’s Outrage Machine, Her Allies Push the Buttons,” New York Times, September 23, 2016, A21.

Gwen Ifill, “Clinton Team Challenges G.O.P. in Effort to ‘Set Record Straight,’” New York Times, August 18, 1992.

, “Clinton Selects Senator Gore of Tennessee as Running Mate,” New York Times, July 10, 1992.

Molly Ivins, You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years (New York: Random House, 1998), xvi–xix.

Barbara Jordan, “Change: From What to What,” Keynote Address, Democratic National Convention, New York, NY, July 13, 1992, Gifts of Speech, Sweet Briar College, http://gos.sbc.edu/j/jordan2.html.

Andrew Kaczynski and Ilan Ben-Meir, “When 17-Year-Old Rachel Maddow Came Out Publicly in Her College Newspaper,” BuzzFeed.com, January 8, 2015.

Michael Kelly, “Clinton and Bush Compete to Be Champion of Change,” New York Times, October 31, 1992.

“King Herod,” BBC Religions, September 18, 2009, www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/Christianity/history/herod/shtml.

David D. Kirkpatrick, “Firing Up the Faithful with Echoes of Culture War Rhetoric,” New York Times, September 5, 2008.

Joe Klein, The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 11.

, “Whose Values?,” Newsweek, June 7, 1992, 19–22.

Nicholas Kristof, “When Liberals Blew It,” New York Times, March 11, 2015.

Daniel Larison, “Did Buchanan’s Convention Speech in 1992 Damage Bush?,” American Conservative, January 13, 2012.

“Letterman on Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown…,” Associated Press, May 21, 1992.

“Los Angeles Riots: Remember the 63 People Who Died,” LATimes.com, April 26, 2012.

Norman Mailer, “By Heaven Inspired,” New Republic, October 12, 1992.

Mary Matalin and James Carville with Peter Knobler, All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 233, 309.

Tanya Melich, The Republican War Against Women: An Insider’s Report from Behind the Lines (New York: Bantam, 1996), x–xi, 256–59, 266, 271.

“Modest Bush Approval Rating Boost at War’s End,” Pew Research Center, April 18, 2003, www.people-press.org/2003/04/18/modest-bush-approval-rating-boost-at-wars-end/.

Lance Morrow, “Family Values,” Time, August 31, 1992, 22–27.

“MSNBC’s Cultural Odd Couple,” Washington Times, October 8, 2008.

Adam Nagourney, “‘Cultural War’ of 1992 Moves in from the Fringe,” New York Times, August 29, 2012.

Timothy Noah, “Why Don’t War Heroes Win?,” Slate, November 3, 2008.

Robert Orsi, “The Christian Right Reaches For Power, Not Influence…,” Baltimore Sun, July 14, 1996.

Robert Pear, “Platform: In a Final Draft, Democrats Reject a Part of Their Past,” New York Times, June 26, 1992.

Degen Pener, “On the Front of Newsweek, a Conflict of Values,” New York Times, June 7, 1992.

Jonathan Peterson, “One-Liners Fly Fast and Furious as Both Sides Aim to Get In Last Zinger,” Los Angeles Times, August 21, 1992.

Dan Quayle, “Address to the Commonwealth Club of California,” May 19, 1992, www.vicepresidentdanquayle.com/speeches_StandingFirm_CCC_1.html.

Ronald Reagan, “Address at Republican National Convention,” Houston, August 17, 1992, www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/reagan/stories/speech.archive/rnc.speech.html.

Phil Reeves, “TV Soap Drops Hot Potato on Quayle,” Independent, September 22, 1992.

“Republican Party Platform of 1992,” August 17, 1992, American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25847.

Frank Rich, “Stag Party,” New York, March 25, 2012, 19–26.

Larry Rohter, “Candidate’s Wife; Unrepentant, Marilyn Quayle Fights for Family and Values,” New York Times, October 28, 1992.

David Rosenbaum, “Republican Platform; G.O.P. Drafting Stand for Total Ban on Abortion,” New York Times, August 11, 1992.

Andrew Rosenthal, “Sununu Resigns Under Fire as Chief Aide to President,” New York Times, December 4, 1991.

William Safire, “The Me-Too Democrats,” New York Times, July 16, 1991.

Isabel Sawhill, “20 Years Later, It Turns Out Dan Quayle Was Right About Murphy Brown and Unmarried Moms,” Washington Post, May 25, 2012.

Katharine Q. Seelye, “Molly Ivins, Columnist, Dies at 62,” New York Times, February 7, 1, 2007.

“Senator John McCain’s Convention Speeches,” New York Times, September 4, 2008.

Tim Stanley, “A New Culture War? Nah,” CNN.com, February 16, 2012.

Roberto Suro, “The Religious Right; Bush Gets Full Support at Religious Gathering,” New York Times, August 23, 1992.

Mimi Swartz, “Being Dan Quayle,” Life, September 1992, 28.

Richard Todd, The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity (New York: Riverhead, 2008), 162.

Robin Toner, “Bush Jarred in First Primary; Tsongas Wins Democratic Vote,” New York Times, February 19, 1992.

, “Bush Vows a Tough Campaign as G.O.P. Opens Its Convention,” New York Times, August 18, 1992.

, “Perot Re-enters the Campaign, Saying Bush and Clinton Fail to Address Government ‘Mess,’” New York Times, October 2, 1992.

Ken Tucker, “Dan Quayle Complains About ‘Murphy Brown,’” Entertainment Weekly, June 5, 1992.

Ryan Walters, “The Republican Establishment’s 20-Year War on Conservatives,” Mississippi Conservative Daily via Buchanan.org, August 19, 2014.

Paul West, “Clinton Issues Fiery Call to Democrats, Perot Backers,” Baltimore Sun, July 17, 1992.

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, “Dan Quayle Was Right,” Atlantic, April 1993.

Michael Wines, “Views on Single Motherhood Are Multiple at White House,” New York Times, May 21, 1992.

Bob Woodward, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 332.

CHAPTER 11: Wanderlust

Interviews: Anonymous AOL source, Tony DiSanto, David Ewing Duncan, Donna Ferrato, Ben Greenman, Jonathan Harris, Andrew Hearst, Reese Jones, David Kirkpatrick, Jane Metcalfe, Aidan Sullivan, Michael Wolff.

Patchen Barss, The Erotic Engine: How Pornography Has Powered Mass Communication from Gutenberg to Google (Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2011), 64–65.

Jamie Beckett, “The Inventor’s Mouse Revolution,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 1998.

Stewart Brand, “Scream of Consciousness” (interview with Camille Paglia), Wired, January 1993.

, “Spacewar,” Rolling Stone, December 7, 1972.

, “We Owe It All to the Hippies,” Time (special issue), Spring 1995.

Louis M. Brill, “1986–1991 Event Archive: The First Year in the Desert,” Burning Man, http://burningman.org/culture/history/brc-history/event-archives/1986-1991/firstyears/.

Dina Cheney, “Louis Rossetto ’71 Goes from Wired to Chocolate,” Columbia College Today, Summer 2013, college.columbia.edu.

Alan Deutschman, “The Gods of Tech,” Vanity Fair, July 2000.

Stacy Finz, “Couple’s TCHO Ventures Sets the Bar for Chocolate,” SFGate.com, October 5, 2013.

Nick Gillespie, “We’re Creating Our Own Evolutionary Next Step,” Reason.com, February 27, 2014.

Brooke Gladstone, “Sex and Technology,” On the Media, NPR.org, November 29, 2002.

Katie Hafner, “Old Newsgroups in New Packages,” New York Times, June 24, 1999, G1, 10.

Samir Husni, “Battle of the E-Mags,” Forbes ASAP, August 21, 2000.

Walter Isaacson, “The Great Connectors,” Vanity Fair, October 2014, 188–90.

Jennifer A. Kingson, “Happy Birthday, WWW,” New York Times, May 7, 2013.

Michael Lewis, “The Search Engine,” New York Times, October 10, 1999.

A. J. Liebling, “The Wayward Press: Do You Belong in Journalism?,” New Yorker, May 14, 1960.

David Lumb, “A Brief History of AOL,” FastCompany.com, May 12, 2015.

Harry McCracken, “20 Years of AOL Annoyances and Foul-Ups,” PCWorld, April 28, 2009.

Declan McCullagh, “Blogs Turn 10—Who’s the Father?,” CNET News, March 20, 2007.

Brian McCullough, “Those Free AOL CDs Were a Campaign for Web Domination. It Worked,” Mashable.com, August 21, 2014.

John Markoff, “A Free and Simple Computer Link,” New York Times, December 8, 1993.

, What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (New York: Penguin, 2006), xii–xiii, xviii–xxi, 110–13, 127–28, 174–75.

Otis Port, “How the Net Was Born—And Where It’s Headed,” BusinessWeek, November 1, 1999.

Hugh Schofield, “Minitel: The Rise and Fall of the France-wide Web,” BBC News Magazine, June 27, 2012.

David Shedden, “Today in Media History: The First Internet Search Engine Is Released in 1990,” Poynter.org, September 10, 2014.

Clay Shirky, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,” Shirky.com, March 13, 2009.

Danny Sullivan, “A Eulogy for AltaVista, the Google of Its Time,” SearchEngineLand.com, June 28, 2013.

Gerard Van der Leun, “This Is a Naked Lady,” Wired, January 1993.

Kyle VanHemert, “How a Band of Rebels and Pioneers Launched Wired’s First Website 20 Years Ago Today,” Wired.com, October 27, 2014.

Michael Wolff, Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet (New York: Touchstone, 1999).

, “You’ve Got Sex,” New York, December 23, 2002.

, “Why Your Kids Know More About the Future Than You Do,” New York, http://nymag.com/nymetro/urban/family/features/679/index3.html.

CHAPTER 12: The Wild Blue Web

Interviews: Susie Bright, Sian Edwards-Beal, Abby Ellin, David Kirkpatrick, Stephen Mayes, Doug Menuez, Luc Sante, Greg Van Alstyne, Rachel Winter.

Dan Ackman, “How Big Is Porn?,” Forbes, May 25, 2001.

Aimee Lee Ball, “Are 5001 Friends One Too Many?,” New York Times, May 30, 2010, ST1, 11.

John Battelle, “The Birth of Google,” Wired, August 2013.

Meredith Bennett-Smith, “Why Do Virginia, 13 Other States Want to Keep Their Anti-Sodomy Laws a Decade After SCOTUS Ban?,” Huffington Post, April 9, 2013.

Charlie Brooker, “The Dark Side of Our Gadget Addiction,” Guardian, December 1, 2011.

David Brooks, “The Crowd Pleaser,” New York Times, February 10, 2012, A27.

Donn Cooper, “Doris Duke: Vanishing Soul,” Oxford American, Winter 2008, 73.

David Cotriss, “Where Are They Now: The Globe.com,” Industry Standard, May 29, 2008.

Maureen Dowd, “Stars and Sewers,” New York Times, February 20, 2011, WK11.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt, “Battle for the Soul of the Internet,” Time, June 24, 2001.

Vanessa Grigoriadis, “The New Position on Casual Sex,” New York, January 6, 2003.

Rufus Griscom, “Ten Years of Nerve: A Retrospective,” Nerve.com, June 26, 2007.

J. C. Herz, Surfing on the Internet: A Nethead’s Adventures On-Line (Boston: Little, Brown, 1995), 164.

Amanda Hess, “Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet,” Pacific Standard, January 2014.

Michael Hirschorn, “The PC Porn Queen’s Virtual Realities,” Esquire, June 1993, 57–60.

William C. Hughes, James Agee, Omnibus, and Mr. Lincoln: The Culture of Liberalism and the Challenge of Television, 1952–1953 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004), 25.

“Illinois C. to Sue Craigslist as Prostitution Hub,” WCBSTV.com, March 5, 2009.

Robin Kawakami, “Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot,” BusinessInsider.com, September 18, 2008.

Janet Kornblum, “eHarmony: Heart and Soul,” USA Today, May 18, 2005.

Irene Lacher, “Sex in the Future? Can You Say ‘Communication’?,” Los Angeles Times, June 7, 1998.

Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget (New York: Vintage, 2011), 14–19, 60–63.

Mark Leibovich, “The Man the White House Wakes Up To,” New York Times Magazine, April 25, 2010, 38.

Rudy Nadio, “Buying Into Bytes,” Brandweek, December 8, 1997.

Andrew Adam Newman, “Dating Website Emphasizes Like, Rather Than Love,” New York Times, November 5, 2014.

Lisa Palac, The Edge of the Bed: How Dirty Pictures Changed My Life (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998), 72–73, 89–93, 99–101, 103–17.

Sam Parker, “How Many Friends Can One Man Have?” (interview with Robin Dunbar), Esquire (U.K.), July 2014.

Pamela Paul, Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families (New York: Henry Holt, 2005), 59, 268–69.

Nick Paumgarten, “Looking for Someone,” New Yorker, July 4, 2011, 39–41, 46.

Douglas Quenqua, “Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist,” New York Times, April 19, 2009, ST1, 8.

Frank Rich, “Naked Capitalists,” New York Times Magazine, May 20, 2001.

Sarah E. Richards, “You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to Love JDate,” New York Times, December 5, 2004.

David Riesman with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character [1950] (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961), xx–xxi.

Peter Rubin, “Pornocopia: The Immersive Future of Virtual Reality Sex,” Wired, March 2015.

Evelyn M. Rusli, “How Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Became Tech’s Go-To Guy,” New York Times, November 6, 2011, BU1, 5.

“Salon.com & Nerve.com Launch Online Personals Service,” Salon, December 4, 2000.

Greg Sandoval, “The End of Kindness: Weev and the Cult of the Angry Young Man,” TheVerge.com, September 12, 2013.

Betsy Schiffman, “FTC, Credit-Card Cos. Bump, Grind Web Porn,” Forbes, August 25, 2000.

Brad Stone, “Craigslist to Remove ‘Erotic’ Ads,” New York Times, May 14, 2009, B1, 6.

, “Sex Ads on Craigslist Attract More Revenue, and More Scrutiny,” New York Times, April 26, 2010, B1.

Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 20–21, 186, 223–24.

Greg Van Alstyne, “Cyberspace and the Lonely Crowd,” Nothingness.org, 1994.

Michael Wolff, “You’ve Got Sex,” New York, December 23, 2002.

CHAPTER 13: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Interviews: Stephanie Bornstein, Richard Friend, Dee Dee Myers, Ingrid Sischy, Joan Williams.

“1988 Presidential General Election Results,” U.S. Election Atlas, http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1988.

“1992 Presidential General Election Results,” U.S. Election Atlas, http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1992.

“About Vice President Biden’s Efforts to End Violence Against Women,” WhiteHouse.gov, www.whitehouse.gov/1is2many/about.

Brett Atwood, “MTV Renews ‘Choose or Lose,’” Billboard, February 3, 1996.

Brian Bender, “Pentagon Airs Criticism of ‘Don’t Ask,’” Boston Globe, September 30, 2009.

Richard L. Berke, “Clinton in Crossfire,” New York Times, July 20, 1993.

, “The Gay Troops Debate: Clinton Is Back in the Storm’s Eye,” New York Times, March 28, 1993.

Dallas A. Blanchard, The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Rise of the Religious Right: From Polite to Fiery Protest (New York: Twayne, 1994), 118.

Bettina Boxall and Edwin Chen, “Nunn, Dole See Perils in Lifting Military Gay Ban,” Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1992.

Taylor Branch, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 5–6.

Elisabeth Bumiller, “Obama Ends ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy,” New York Times, July 22, 2011.

Robert Catlin, “Politicizing of MTV Culminates In Rock ’N’ Roll Inaugural,” Hartford Courant, January 20, 1993.

Bill Clinton, “How We Ended Welfare, Together,” New York Times, August 22, 2006.

, My Life (New York: Random House/Vintage, 2004), 318, 372, 471, 474, 477, 480–86, 706.

Bill Clinton, “We Force the Spring,” Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, January 20, 1993, New York Times, January 21, 1993.

“Clinton Backs Bill to Bar Job Bias Against Gays,” Chicago Tribune, October 21, 1995.

“The Clinton Presidency: Timeline of Major Actions,” WhiteHouse.gov, https://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-02.html.

Amy Chozick, “Hillary Clinton’s Gay Rights Evolution,” New York Times, August 29, 2014

Adam Clymer, “Lawmakers Revolt on Lifting Gay Ban in Military Service,” New York Times, January 27, 1993.

Yoji Cole, “‘Don’t Pursue, Don’t Harass’: The Other Half of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” DiversityInc.com, June 15, 2004.

Helen Dewar, “Congress Passes Family Leave,” Washington Post, February 5, 1993.

Maureen Dowd, “Defending the Long Gay Line,” New York Times, February 2, 2010.

“Empowering Women in Sports,” Feminist Majority Foundation, www.feminist.org/research/sports/sports12.html.

“Family and Medical Leave Act: Overview,” U.S. Department of Labor: Wage and Hour Division, dol.gov/whd/fmla.

Alyssa Fetini, “Top 10 Oprah Moments: 8. Putting Democracy to Work,” Time.com, May 25, 2011.

Barney Frank, Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015), 161.

Nathaniel Frank, Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America (New York: Thomas Dunne, 2009), xxi–xxiii, 33, 38–39, 48–56, 70–72, 95–97.

Barry M. Goldwater, “The Gay Ban: Just Plain Un-American,” Washington Post, June 10, 1993, A23.

“Guidelines for Employers on Sexual Harassment,”’Lectric Law Library, www.lectlaw.com/files/emp32.htm.

Hendrik Hertzberg, “Stonewall Plus Forty,” New Yorker, July 6, 2009, 23–24.

Fred Hochberg, “In Government and, Incidentally, Gay,” New York Times, February 10, 2001, A15.

“HRC Condemns Wyoming Hate Crime and Says Religious Right’s Anti-gay Rhetoric Creates Climate Conducive to Violence” (press release), Human Rights Campaign, October 10, 1998.

Carl Hulse, “Senate Ends Military Ban on Gays Serving Openly,” New York Times, December 9, 2010, A1, 34.

“Inaugural Events Sing a Song of Diversity,” Los Angeles Times, January 13, 1993.

“Jan. 17–23: Roe’s Momentous Anniversary; Undoing Republican Rulings, Clinton Lifts Bans Meant to Curb Abortions,” New York Times, January 24, 1993.

Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass: A Memoir (New York: Twelve, 2009), 451–52.

Joe Klein, The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 44–45.

Lawrence J. Korb, “The Costs of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Center for American Progress, AmericanProgress.org, March 2, 2009.

Adam Liptak, “Looking for Time Bombs and Tea Leaves on Gay Marriage,” New York Times, July 20, 2010, A11.

“The March for Life, 1993: The View from the Ellipse,” Crisis, www.crisismagazine.com/1993/the-march-for-life-1993.

Dick Morris, Behind the Oval Office: Getting Reelected Against All Odds (New York: St. Martin’s, 1999), xvii, 270, 288, 307–8.

Lance Morrow, “The Torch Is Passed,” Time (Man of the Year), January 4, 1993, 22–25.

Peggy Noonan, “Bush’s Defeat: Insider’s Analysis,” New York Times, November 5, 1992.

Jon Pareles, “As Rock Beat Fades, Clinton’s Presidency Opens on a Soft Note,” New York Times, January 21, 1993.

“Policy Concerning Homosexuality in the Armed Forces,” U.S. Code, Title 10, Subtitle G, Section 654, January 24, 1994, mit.edu/committees/rotc/code.html.

“President Clinton Signs the National Child Protection Act,” Associated Press via New York Times, December 21, 1993.

Roger Rosenblatt, “Teaching Johnny to Be Good,” New York Times Magazine, April 30, 1995.

Julie Rovner, “‘Partial-Birth Abortion’: Separating Fact from Spin,” NPR.org, February 21, 2006.

Eric Schmitt, “Military Cites Wide Range of Reasons for Its Gay Ban,” New York Times, January 27, 1993.

, “President’s Policy on Gay Troops Is Backed in Vote of Senate Panel,” New York Times, July 24, 1993.

“Scuttle ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’” (editorial), New York Times, May 23, 2010.

Larry Shaughnessy, “U.S. Allies Say Integrating Gays in Military Was Nonissue,” CNN.com, May 19, 2010.

Jube Shiver Jr., “The Hip-Hot Bash: MTV Ball Becomes the ‘Hottest Ticket in Town,’” Los Angeles Times, January 13, 1993.

George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human: A Political Education (Boston: Little, Brown, 1999), 122–28, 133.

Michael Takiff, A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 151–55.

Sharon Terman, “The Practical and Conceptual Problems with Regulating Harassment in a Discriminatory Institution,” Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military (Palm Center), University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2004, http://archive.palmcenter.org/files/active/0/200405_Terman.pdf.

Robin Toner, “Anti-Abortion Movement Prepares to Battle Clinton,” New York Times, January 22, 1993.

Tom Vanden Berg, “Military Transgender Ban Set to End Next May,” USA Today, August 25, 2015.

Myrna Watanabe, “With Five-Year Ban on Fetal Tissue Studies Lifted, Scientists Are Striving to Make Up for Lost Time,” Scientist, October 4, 1993.

Rick Weaver, “Sexual Harassment ‘Affirmative Defense’ Defined by Supreme Court,” Orange-County-Attorney.blogspot.com, May 27, 2009.

“Will Powell Quit over Gay Issue?,” Philadelphia Daily News, January 25, 1993.

CHAPTER 14: The Age of the Long Lie

Interviews: Steve Kroft, Dee Dee Myers, Jonathan Rauch, Frank Rich, Gay Talese.

William J. Bennett, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (New York: Touchstone, 1999), 16–21, 29–30.

Carl Bernstein, “Watergate’s Last Chapter,” Vanity Fair, October 2005, 340–41.

Graydon Carter, “Donald Trump: The Ugly American,” Vanity Fair, October 2016.

Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Random House/Vintage, 2004), 387, 445.

“The Choice ’96,” interview with Paul Greenberg, Frontline, PBS, www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice/bill/greenberg.html.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, “What Those Polls Are Telling Us,” Washington Post, March 22, 1998.

Joe Klein, “The Politics of Promiscuity,” Newsweek, May 9, 1994.

Nicholas Kristof, “When a Crackpot Runs for President,” New York Times, September 15, 2016.

Howard Kurtz, Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (New York: Free Press, 1998), 294.

Mary Matalin and James Carville with Peter Knobler, All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 400–402.

Frank Newport, “Presidential Job Approval: Bill Clinton’s High Ratings in the Midst of Crisis, 1998,” Gallup.com, June 4, 1999.

Robert Pear, “The Buck Stops Here,” New York Times, July 19, 1987.

“Presidential Approval Ratings—Bill Clinton,” Gallup.com.

Jonathan Rauch, “Cheatin’ Hearts: Living with Adultery, or, It’s Better to Pretend Not to Know,” Chicago Tribune, September 23, 1998, N19.

, “High Lying,” New Republic, April 20, 1998, 42.

, “Law and Disorder,” New Republic, April 30, 2001.

, “Live and Let Lie,” New Republic, September 2, 1997, 24–28.

Frank Rich, “Fantasyland: Denial Has Poisoned the GOP and Threatens the Rest of the Country Too,” New York, November 19, 2012, 18–20.

, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth, from 9/11 to Katrina (New York: Penguin, 2006), 2–3, 87, 125, 163, 181.

Steven V. Roberts, “Reagan Says Aides Had Duty to Tell of Fund,” New York Times, August 13, 1987.

Jeffrey Rosen, The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (New York: Vintage, 2001), 144.

William Safire, “Blizzard of Lies,” New York Times, January 8, 1996.

Lisa Taddeo, “Why We Cheat,” Esquire, April 2012.

Michael Tomasky, “It’s Time for the Media to Step Up and Call Out Donald Trump’s Many Lies,” Daily Beast, September 8, 2016.

CHAPTER 15: The Oversexed, Underexamined, Media-Soaked Yadda Yadda of Everyday Life

Interviews: Debby Applegate, Heike Bachmann, Patrick Baz, Brian Bedol, Stefanie Cohen, Ryan Cook, Alan Cumming, Father Robert Farrell, Donna Ferrato, Helen Fisher, Elena Ochoa Foster, Anthony Haden-Guest, Abigail Jones, Robert Longo, Jim McHugh, Sunny Mindel, Beth Ouellette, Howard Owen, Amy Paulsen, Julianne Pepitone, Drew Pinsky, Judith Regan, Reza, Julian Sancton, Ingrid Sischy, Linda Troeller, Bruce Tulgan.

Ron Athey, “Polemic of Blood: Ron Athey on the ‘Post-AIDS’ Body,” Walker magazine, March 19, 2015, Walker Art Center, www.walkerart.org/magazine/2015/ron-athey-blood-polemic-post-aids-body/.

Richard Avedon, “Swinton’s Time,” New Yorker, March 8, 1993.

David Barstow, “Art, Money and Control: A Portrait of ‘Sensation,’” New York Times, December 6, 1999.

, “‘Sensation’ Exhibition Closes as It Opened, to Applause and Condemnation,” New York Times, January 10, 2000.

Emily Bazelton, “Trolls, the Bell Tolls for Thee,” New York Times Magazine, April 24, 2011, 9–10.

Jack Beatty, “Sex and the Social Critic: In Reviews of Stanley Kubrick’s Last Film, the Critics’ Eyes Were Shut to Its Wider Implications About Modern Society,” Atlantic, August 25, 1999.

“Behind the Cover: Britney Spears, Photographed by David LaChapelle,” RollingStone.com, September 30, 2004.

Jacob Bernstein, “She’s Back. Watch Out,” New York Times, February 8, 2015, ST1, 10.

Charles M. Blow, “The Demise of Dating,” New York Times, December 13, 2008, A21.

Kathleen A. Bogel, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus (New York: NYU, 2008), 2–8, 20, 25, 39–41, 85, 184.

Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline [1996] (New York: ReganBooks, 2003), 131–33.

L. Brent Bozell III, “TV’s Morality, Standards: Loose Across the Board,” Creators Syndicate, April 29, 1997.

David Brooks, “The Flock Comedies,” New York Times, October 22, 2010, A35.

Barbara Brotman, “Howard Stern’s Breakup Raises Universal Issues,” Chicago Tribune, October 27, 1999.

Joan Juliet Buck, “Carrie Retakes Hollywood,” Vanity Fair, August 1990, 130–32.

Joy Duckett Cain, “The Growing Pains of Salt ‘N’ Pepa,” Essence, October 1994.

Ken Camp, “Study Finds TV Sex More Pervasive,” Texas Baptist Communications, February 19, 2001.

Dan Carnevale, “With the Latest Technology, Students Find That Creating Fake ID’s Is Easy,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 19, 2002.

Bill Carter, “This Year’s Hot TV Trend Is Anatomically Correct,” New York Times, September 22, 2011, C1, 7.

Susan Cheever, “Innocence Betrayed” (review of Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss), New York Times, March 30, 1997.

Steven Church and Sophia Pearson, “‘Girls Gone Wild’ Files Bankruptcy to Fight Vegas Debt,” Bloomberg.com, February 28, 2013.

Roger Cohen, “Bret Easton Ellis Answers Critics of ‘American Psycho,’” New York Times, March 6, 1991.

Holland Cotter, “Poised for a Final Close-Up and Moving On: Cindy Sherman, Metro Pictures,” New York Times, May 27, 2016, C22.

Sarah Crompton, “Sarah Lucas…,” Guardian, May 10, 2015.

Theodore Dalrymple, “Trash, Violence, and Versace: But Is It Art?,” City Journal, Winter 1998.

Christopher B. Daly, “Not Banned in Boston: Mapplethorpe Exhibit Opens,” Washington Post, August 2, 1990.

Steven Daly and David LaChapelle, “Britney Spears: Inside the Heart and Mind (and Bedroom) of America’s New Teen Queen,” Rolling Stone, April 15, 1999, 61–65.

Brad Darrach with Judy Ellis, “Jerry Seinfeld Lets It All Hang Out,” Life, October 1993, 78–86.

Mike D’Avria, “The Sexual Proclivities of Friends,” Splitsider.com, July 2011.

A. DeCurtis, “Naughty by Nature’s Surprise Success,” Rolling Stone, October 17, 1991.

Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “Friends, Friends with Benefits and the Benefits of the Local Mall,” New York Times Magazine, May 30, 2004.

Joseph Dionisio, “’90s Mouseketeers Turned Big Cheeses,” Newsday via Seattle Times, November 9, 2007.

Mia Fineman, “The Image Is Familiar; The Pitch Isn’t,” New York Times, July 13, 2008, AR22.

Joe Flint, “‘Dawson’s Creek’ Is Named the Filthiest TV Series,” Entertainment Weekly, August 6, 1998.

David Fricke, “The Naked Truth: Despite Their Appearance, the Chili Peppers Play Music That Comes from Their Hearts,” Rolling Stone, June 25, 1992.

Tad Friend, “First Banana: Steve Carell and the Meticulous Art of Spontaneity,” New Yorker, July 5, 2010.

“Friends,” Entertainment Weekly, September 15, 2001.

Mary Gaitskill, “On Not Being a Victim,” Harper’s, March 1994.

Matthew Gilbert, “‘Melrose Place’ Basks in Bad: Its Villainy Makes It a ‘Dynasty’ for the ’90s,” Boston Globe, May 18, 1994, 69.

Sander L. Gilman, Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), xix, 4–6, 32–33, 214–15.

Merle Ginsberg, “Nicole Kidman on Life with Tom Cruise Through Stanley Kubrick’s Lens,” Hollywood Reporter, October 24, 2012.

Anthony M. Giovacchini, “The Negative Influence of Gangster Rap and What Can Be Done About It,” Poverty & Prejudice: Media and Race, Stanford.edu, June 4, 1999.

Andrew Goldman, “Blood Sugar Sex Fatherhood,” New York Times Magazine, March 4, 2012, 12.

Walter Goodman, “HBO Offers Another View of ‘Real Sex,’” New York Times, August 14, 1992.

Renee Graham, “MTV’s ‘Real World’ Turns into ‘The Carnal Camera Show,’” Boston Globe via San Diego Union-Tribune, September 26, 2004.

Elon Green, “The Dirty Talk of the Town: Profanity at ‘The New Yorker,’” TheAwl.com, May 31, 2011.

Mel Gussow, “Artists See No Decency in Ruling on Grants,” New York Times, July 2, 1998.

Anthony Haden-Guest, “Art or Commerce?,” Vanity Fair, November 1991, 200–204.

Joe Hagan, “Bjork Icon,” Newsweek, June 19, 2003.

Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York: New York University Press, 2005), 137–41.

Jason D. Hans, Martie Gillen, and Katrina Akande, “Sex Redefined: The Reclassification of Oral-Genital Contact,” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 42, no. 2 (June 2010).

Suzy Hansen, “Vagina Mama-Log,” New York Observer, February 26, 2006.

Thomas Hayden, “Barenaked Ladies Exposed,” Newsweek.com, October 5, 2000.

John Heilpern, “Angels in America: Indeed, the Millennium Approaches,” New York Observer, May 20, 1993.

Michael Hiltzik, “‘Deep Throat’ Numbers Just Don’t Add Up,” Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2005.

Christopher Hitchens, “As American as Apple Pie,” Vanity Fair, July 2006.

David Hochman, “Playboy Interview: Dr. Drew Pinsky,” Playboy, July 2008.

Matthew Jacobs, “13 Facts You May Not Know About Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut,’” Huffington Post, July 18, 2014.

Michiko Kakutani, “Comic Novellas on Metamorphoses” (review of Will Self’s Cock & Bull), New York Times, May 31, 1993.

“Kate Winslet: Bio, Pics, Clips,” MrSkin.com.

Natalie Kitroeff, “In Hookups, Inequality Still Reigns,” NYTimes.com, November 11, 2013.

Gina Kolata, “Editor of A.M.A. Journal Is Dismissed over Sex Paper,” New York Times, January 16, 1999.

Howard Kurtz, “Tina Brown Quits the New Yorker,” Washington Post, July 9, 1998.

Roger N. Lancaster, “Sex Offenders: The Last Pariahs,” New York Times, August 21, 2011, SR6–7.

Molly Langmuir, “Masturbation, Nudists, and Street Interviews: An Oral History of HBO’s Real Sex,” Vulure.com, July 30, 2013.

John Leland, “Bisexuality,” Newsweek, July 17, 1995.

, “The Selling of Sex,” Newsweek, November 2, 1992.

John Leo, “Raging Hormones on TV,” U.S. News, January 25, 1998.

Jo Ann Lewis, “Corcoran in Red After Art Debacle,” Washington Post, October 26, 1990.

David Lipsky, “To Be Young & Gay,” Rolling Stone, August 6, 1998.

Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan, with Alison M. Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Made in Heaven Paintings [1990–91] (New York: Luxembourg & Dayan, 2010).

Sarah Lyall, “Art That Tweaks British Propriety,” New York Times, September 20, 1997.

Jenny McCarthy, Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy’s Open Book (New York: HarperCollins, 1997).

Norman Mailer, “Women We Love: Norman Mailer on Madonna,” Esquire, August 1994.

Janet Maslin, “Jobless? Broke? Men, You Can Always Strip,” New York Times, August 13, 1997.

, “When a Not-So-Bad Girl Turns Very, Very Bad,” New York Times, March 31, 1989.

“Mayor Giuliani Announces Appointment of Sunny Mindel as Press Secretary” (press release), Archives of the Mayor’s Press Office, June 7, 1999, www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/99a/pr214-99.html.

Daniel Mendelsohn, “But Enough About Me,” New Yorker, January 25, 2010, 68–74.

Daphne Merkin, “Unlikely Obsession,” New Yorker, 98–99.

Denene Millner, “‘Booty Call’ Man Hot Comic Bill Bellamy Is Out to Prove He’s More Than a One-Joke Hunk,” New York Daily News, July 30, 1997.

Judith Newman, “The Devil and Miss Regan,” Vanity Fair, January 2005, 52–68.

Chris Norris, “Hitting Bottom: Dr. Drew Pinsky… Is This Therapy or Tabloid Voyeurism?,” New York Times Magazine, January 3, 2010.

Emily Nussbaum, “Mary, Mary, Less Contrary,” New York, November 6, 2005.

“O.J.’s Fake Tell-All Goes Bust!,” Entertainment Weekly, August 31, 2007.

John Ortved, “Simpson Family Values,” Vanity Fair, August 2007, 94.

Pamela Paul, “So, Hook-Ups Do Mean More Sex?,” New York Times, May 9, 2010, ST6.

Peter Plagens, “The Young and the Tasteless,” Newsweek, November 18, 1991.

Robin Pogrebin, “The Determined Troupe You Don’t See: The Creators of ‘The Full Monty,’ Like Its Heroes, Had Something to Prove,” New York Times, October 31, 2000.

Katha Pollitt, “With Love and Squalor” (review of Joyce Maynard’s At Home in the World), New York Times, September 13, 1998.

J. D. Reed, “A Life on the Edge: Shannen Doherty’s Wild Ways May Be Hazardous to Her—And Her Career,” People, June 14, 1993.

Frank Rich, “The Greatest Dirty Joke Ever Told,” New York Times, March 13, 2005.

Katie Roiphe, “The Naked and the Conflicted,” New York Times Book Review, December 31, 2009, 1, 8–9.

Jim Rutenberg, “Unbleeped Bleep Words Spread on Network TV,” New York Times, January 25, 2003.

Stephanie A. Sanders and June Machover Reinisch, “Would You Say You ‘Had Sex’ If…?,” Journal of the American Medical Association 281, no. 3 (January 20, 1999): 275–77.

Kelefa Sanneh, “The Reality Principle,” New Yorker, May 9, 2011, 72–77.

“Sarah Lucas: Self Portrait with Fried Eggs, 1996,” Tate.org.uk.

Peter Schjeldahl, “The Elegant Scavenger: John Currin’s Low Comedy of High Style,” New Yorker, February 22, 1999.

Karen S. Schneider, “The Game of Love,” People, March 28, 1994.

Jennifer Schuessler, “Shock Me If You Can,” New York Times, September 16, 2012, AR1, 10.

, “Shock Me, Please: Does Art Still Have the Energy?” (roundtable with Roberta Smith, Ben Brantley, A. O. Scott, and Alastair Macaulay), NYTimes.com, September 27, 2012.

Janny Scott and Geraldine Fabrikant, “Change at the New Yorker: The Editor,” New York Times, July 9, 1998.

“Sensational Hit for Royal Academy,” BBC News, December 30, 1997.

Abhishek Seth, “How Baywatch Unknowingly Changed the World: The Untapped Power of TV Shows,” Huffington Post, September 25, 2013.

“Sex on TV: Content and Context” (press release), Kaiser Family Foundation, February 9, 1999.

Susan Shapiro, “Going for the Lion’s Share: Judith Regan,” New York Times Magazine, July 7, 1994.

William Shawcross, “Murdoch’s New Life,” Vanity Fair, October 1999, 320.

Michael Shnayerson, “Women Behaving Badly,” Vanity Fair, February 1997, 54–60.

“Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss,” CrainsNewYork.com, 2008, mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/40under40/profiles/2008/10096.

“The Small Screen Gets Smaller,” Nielsen Media Research via Time, March 26, 2009, 62.

Roberta Smith, “That Was No Lady, That Was My Wife,” New York Times, October 13, 2010.

Dan Snierson, “Bring on ‘The Man Show,’” Entertainment Weekly, July 16, 1999.

Amy Sohn, “The Final Episode,” New York Press, August 25, 1999.

Susan Sontag, On Photography [1977] (New York: Picador, 2001), 19–21.

Howard Stern, Private Parts [1993] (New York: Pocket, 1996), 8, 28, 77, 87, 265, 348–49, 436, 560–73.

Neil Strauss, “The Happiest Man Alive: The Long Struggle and Neurotic Triumph of Howard Stern,” Rolling Stone, March 31, 2011, 40–47, 76.

, “Marilyn Manson: Sympathy for the Devil,” Rolling Stone, January 23, 1997.

Charles Strum, “Taste Schmaste! This Is Just About Laughs,” New York Times, June 13, 1999.

Janice Hopkins Tanne, “JAMA Editor Fired over Sex Article,” BMJ, January 23, 1999, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114712/.

Kate Taylor, “Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too,” New York Times, July 14, 2013.

Calvin Tomkins, “Lifting the Veil: Old Masters, Pornography, and the Work of John Currin,” New Yorker, January 28, 2008.

Neal Travis, “… Seinfeld to Marry…,” New York Post, November 9, 1999.

Linda Troeller, The Erotic Lives of Women (London: Scalo, 1998).

Bruce Tulgan, “Meet Generation Z: The Second Generation Within the Giant ‘Millennial’ Cohort,” RainmakerThinking.com, 2013.

Sarah Van Boven, “The Doctor Is Always On,” Newsweek, June 15, 1998.

Dini von Mueffling, “Bloomingdale’s or Bust! The Rise of Shoshanna Lonstein (Jerry’s Ex),” New York Observer, January 17, 1999.

Sarah Vowell, “La Vie En ‘Melrose,’” Salon, May 24, 1999.

Daniel J. Wakin, “Schuyler Chapin, Champion of Arts in New York, Dies at 86,” New York Times, March 8, 2009.

David Foster Wallace, “John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for Magnificent Narcissists?,” New York Observer, October 12, 1997.

Sharon Waxman, “Sex on TV: Study Finds More, Sooner but Safer,” Washington Post, February 7, 2001, C1, 8.

Elizabeth Weil, “The Incredible Shrinking Childhood: How Early Is Too Early for Puberty?,” New York Times Magazine, April 1, 2012, 32–33.

Bernard Weinraub, “Getting Real Before Anyone Else: MTV’s ‘World’ Rolls On with Voyeurs on Its Coattails,” New York Times, February 21, 2001, E1.

Joanne Weintraub, “Tina Brown’s New Yorker,” AJR, April 1995.

Isabel Wilkerson, “Test Case for Obscenity Standards Begins Today in an Ohio Courtroom,” New York Times, September 24, 1990.

Mary Elizabeth Williams, “Woof! There It Is! Snoop Dogg Asks Not What Porn Can Do for Him, but What He Can Do for Pornography,” Salon, March 15, 2001.

James Wolcott, “Act I, Obscene Too,” Vanity Fair, March 1999.

, “’Roid Rage Threatens the American Soil,” VanityFair.com, June 6, 2008.

, “The Young and the Feckless,” Vanity Fair, September 1999.

Tom Wolfe, “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” New York, August 23, 1976.

Rachel Wolff, “A Townhouse Full of High-Art Smut: Naked Koons Returns,” New York, October 1, 2010.

“Word Nannies: The Supreme Court Endorses FCC Overkill” (editorial), Chicago Tribune, May 2, 2009, A14.

Wesley Yang, “The Sex Diaries,” New York, November 2, 2009, 36.