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If pandemic exhaustion, galloping inflation, and talk of World War III haven’t yet gotten you down, Rethinking Sex: A Provocation might do the trick. This is not the fault of author Christine Emba, whose prose in this short book is stylish, engaging, and, above all, earnest. No, what depresses is the fact that this manifesto should have to exist in the first place. But exist it must, for reasons that its pages make excruciatingly clear. Based upon a 2017 #MeToo piece published in the Washington Post, where Emba is a columnist, Rethinking Sex performs the public service of wondering aloud...

<p>Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. He is set to make an announcement . . .</p>

Accused wife-beating state cop Tim White and his wife led a hard-partying life of coke snorting and three-way sex that sent the respected trooper into a downward spiral of depression and violence, according to court records and affidavits obtained by the Herald. In the aftermath of a harrowing ordeal at their Stoughton home last week during which White allegedly stuck a gun in his wife's mouth, Maura White told police a sordid tale of a nine-year marriage gone awry. She said her husband, a 16-year trooper and former department spokesman, had grown depressed over the past three years and was...