By: Jacob Hight - Graphics Editor -

Penises aren’t always as straightforward as one might think. They come in all shapes and sizes; circumcised, uncircumcised; decorated, undecorated. As with genitals in general, the penis is a deeply intimate part of the male partner, a unique expres...

By: Joe Douglas - Jr. Copy Editor -

At the beginning of the semester, I wrote my first issue of my column on how imperative, even vital having the right perspective is in being happy. It’s important to bring the subject back up again, especially as the spring semester comes to a close...

By: Collin Reischman - Managing Editor -

Alas, it is here: My final column at The Montage. In a few short weeks, I’ll have graduated and will begin the final steps into cementing my future at Webster University, which was kind enough to admit me, and the student paper there, The Journal, o...

By: Collin Reischman - Managing Editor -

Oh no. Another college student is going to talk about marijuana. You pick up this column and think, “Another 20something student who wants to legalize pot, just so he can smoke freely on his drive to class and stink like hell when we wanders confuse...

By: Jacob Hight - Graphics Editor -

Centuries of penis worship must be attributed to the fact that it’s easier to carve monolithic dicks and parade them down the center of town. After all, many people are lazy and a giant penis statue is just, well, easier....

By: Joe Douglas - Jr. Copy Editor -

Mark Twain once said, “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” Ever have one of those weeks where everything is due? Heaven forbid on the same day?...

By: Jacob Hight - Graphics Editor -

No doubt every bookstore’s sex shelf has a version of it somewhere, the Kama Sutra, a Hindu text on sex and “love,” is older than Shakespeare’s works, and probably the more popular, though Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 is the m...

By: Collin Reischman - Managing Editor -

Why do we feel that we must have a stance on hot-button issues immediately? Why must you be in support of or opposition to health care legislation before it has even begun to work?...

By: Joe Douglas - Jr. Copy Editor -

A woman calls Life Crisis Services. She talks in a low voice, looking for help from herself. Clicks register over the phone as she continues talking about the little things in life that made her happy. Click. Click. Sheryl Bergin, former Life Crises worke...

By: Collin Reischman - Managing Editor -

The GOP has been using the frozen, unmoving Washington as a rationalization for its own impending ascent to power. The GOP successfully feeds off of democrats misfortune....

By: Joe Douglas - Jr. Copy Editor -

For some people, including me, taking a break from routine schedules can be difficult to do, if not impossible. We bury ourselves deep in responsibilities and following predictability to the point life becomes mundane and repetitive. It’s class Mond...

By: Jacob Hight - Graphics Editor -

This column fully supports the recovery of abusers and encourages them to get the necessary professional help; to prevent confusion it will only focus on the recovery of survivors of abuse. Surivivors should not use an abuser’s choice to get help as...

By: Collin Reischman - Managing Editor -

Mere days after Joseph Stack flew his single-engine plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, his daughter, Samantha Bell, went on Good Morning America to refer to her father as a hero, and his plane attack as “inappropriate.” While few ha...

By: Jacob Hight - Graphics Editor -

Human beings are social creatures; innovative, curious, and naturally sensual. The mingling of a partner’s musky scent, muscles rippling like fields of sun-gilded wheat, or a partner’s comforting down-soft embrace might all be things that aro...

By: Joe Douglas - Jr. Copy Editor -

When we’re rushing through life, we’re not living in the moment. For every second we fret with the future, we’re spending one less second in the present. Students are trained from childhood to plan ahead. In early grade school, we’...

By: Jacob Hight - Graphics Editor-

 Discouraging the use of contraceptives is naive and immmoral. The excitement, wonders and pleasures of sexual intimacy come with the ability to spread death and the power to create life. Life and death are not subtle in consequence; only the wise-lo...

By: Joe Douglas - Jr. Copy Editor-

Life sucks. And when it does, people just complain. I hate the rain. The cold is unbearable. College is kicking my butt. I wish I didn’t have to take this class. My teacher wants us to read 30 pages by Friday. Not only that, but I hate my job, my bo...

By: Collin Reischman - Managing Editor-

This country is plagued with impatience. All are guilty, be it the multitasking teenager who can’t wait for that next text message, or the honking SUV at the drive thru, desperate for large fries and a coke....

By: Jacob Hight - Graphics Editor-

Religion is a powerful force in the world, especially in the bedroom. Some feel the weight on an all-seeing eye quite vividly, abstaining from many sexual acts, or choosing virginity until marriage....

By: Collin Reischman - Managing Editor-

America won’t win in Afghanistan. No, this isn’t treason, or even dissent; it's fact. The recent announcement by President Obama to increase troops, and re-think our strategy is not necessarily a poor one. In fact, it is completely beside the ...