MADRID — In the promising New York of the late 1990s, Carrie Bradshaw wrote about the romantic scene with a certain perplexity but, above all, very comfortably. Like the iconic Sex and the City ...

In the center of the Bible Belt — where religious shame is common, abstinence-only education reigns and abortions are banned — Nashvillians are doing the deed against all odds. Valerie Martin, a ...