selected ARTICLES 2018-PRESENT
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April 12, 2024
”The Troubling Trend in Teenage Sex”
The New York Times “Sunday Opinion”
December 22, 2023
”The Lives They Lived: Dr, Susan Love”
The New York Times Magazine
December, 2023
”Learning the Value of Slowing Down on Slovenia’s Juliana Trail”
AFAR
BONUS: Hear Peggy perform the audio version of this story
on AFAR’s “Travel Tales” podcast!
September 5, 2023
”The Power of Food for People with Dementia”
The New Yorker
January 27, 2023
”The Threads That Bind Us”
The New York Times “Book Review”
January 24, 2023
”The Revolutionary Power of a Skein of Yarn”
The New York Times “Opinion”
June 14, 2021
”If You Ignore Porn, You Aren’t Teaching Sex Ed”
The New York Times “Opinion”
April 17, 2021
”What Will Happen When Americans Start Having Sex Again?”
The New York Times “Sunday Review”
December 23, 2020
”We Asked Some of Our Favorite People What They’d Put in a 2020 Time Capsule”
Mother Jones
December 8, 2020
”Discovering the True Meaning of Paradise in China’s Yunnan Province”
Afar
January 10 , 2020
”Will We Ever Figure Out How to Talk to Boys About Sex?”
Teenagers and young men still don’t have the right vocabulary. Can we help them get there?
The New York Times “Sunday Review”
January/February, 2020
”The Miseducation of the American Boy”
Why boys crack up at rape jokes, think having a girlfriend is “gay,” and still can’t cry—and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity
The Atlantic
July, 2019
”On a Horseback Trip Through Wyoming, a Mother-Daughter Duo Return to Their Roots”
AFAR Magazine
February 23, 2109
”It’s Not That Men Don’t Know What Consent Is:
They Often Understand That What They’re Doing is Wrong — Then They Do it Anyway. “
The New York Times “Sunday Review”
November 2018
”Why I took My Daughter to Auschwitz”
How do you tell a child about the existence of pure evil?
Conde Nast Traveler
September 29, 2018
"We Can’t Just Let Boys Be Boys"
Locker Rooms are Not the Place to Learn About Sexual Ethics. Neither is the Internet.
The New York Times “Sunday Review”
MARCH 8, 2018
"Boys Often Don't Recognize When They've Been Sexually Assaulted"
If a Boy is Supposed to Deny His Own Violation, How Can He Feel Compassion for — or Even Recognize — a Girl’s?
New York Magazine
MARCH/APRIL, 2018
"Escape From the Modern World on a Pilgrim's Path Through Japan"
No Crowds, No Cosplay. Just Temples, Trees and a Warm Bath at the End of the Day
AFAR Magazine
BONUS: Hear Peggy perform the audio version of this story
on AFAR’s “Travel Tales” podcast!
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
"The Sex Toy Shops That Switched On a Feminist Revolution"
Review of the books Buzz and Vibrator Nation
The New York Times, “Book Review”
