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Sexism

'Botanical Sexism' Could Be Behind Your Seasonal Allergies

More diversity in city trees would probably be a good thing.

Sabrina Imbler May 17, 2019

The Girl Who Jumped Out of a Pie and Into a Gilded Age Morality Tale

Susie Johnson sparked America's obsession with erotic cake dancing.

Reina Gattuso April 25, 2019

Kramfors N, Sweden

Bålberget Memorial

This serene wooded hilltop has a dark history as the climactic point of the Swedish witch trials.

Zurich, Switzerland

Chaiselongue

This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.

Before Mace, a Hatpin Was an Unescorted Lady’s Best Defense

Accessories to assault.

Natasha Frost October 10, 2017

Found: Evidence That a Lavish Burial Honored a Viking Warrior Woman

Turns out they weren't just myths.

Sarah Laskow September 8, 2017

Everything You've Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie

Including their very existence.

Sarah Laskow July 12, 2017

What 'Locker Room Vulgarity' Meant in the 1984 Presidential Campaign

Different times.

Erik Shilling October 11, 2016

What Happened to 'The Most Liberated Woman in America'?

Barbara Williamson co-founded one of the most famous radical sex experiments of the 1970s. Then she got wild.

Alex Mar June 7, 2016

Hamburg, Germany

Herbertstraße

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Statues We Love to Hate

Kevin Lo May 12, 2014