Kerry Cohen responds to Janine Kovac’s piece “Maybe You Are Ready For Kids, You’re Just Not Paying Attention.” I was ready to have children. I was more than ready. Somewhere around 28, my biological clock kicked into gear and I could think of almost nothing else. I had spent the better part of my life […]
This originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Republished here with author’s permission. Kerry Cohen responds to former feminist icon Elizabeth Wurtzel’s recent New York magazine piece about never really growing up. I was 23 throughout most of 1994, and like most 23-year-olds, I was living inside the sense that I would never be OK. I […]
Who says a woman’s sex drive slows down after 60? In 2002, my mother was 61 years old and fresh off her second divorce. She wanted to begin dating again, but as a busy gynecologist and obstetrician, she didn’t even know where to start. It was her cousin who told her about online dating, but […]
Sure, we all know we should love our bodies just the way they are, but Kerry Cohen says that’s simply not the case for most women. So why can’t we talk about our own body image issues without being judged? I used to have a friend who owned a second-hand clothing store, and she grew […]
Kerry Cohen discusses how her father’s issues with women affected her childhood, her adult life, and her relationships. My sister and I grew up as teenagers in our father’s home. We lived in a three-bedroom apartment in Fort Lee, New Jersey, right across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan, and I often gazed out my […]
Kerry Cohen is not fat. But like many women, she struggles almost daily with what she sees in the mirror. She shares her lifelong battle with feeling “kind of fat,” knowing she’s not, and trying to accept herself for who she is. The one time anyone called me fat was when I was in the […]
Despite fully knowing the risk, author Kerry Cohen didn’t make condoms a regular part of her sex life. What was regular, however, was fear and shame. When I was 22, I sat on the toilet bowl, my fingers probing my vulva. I was terrified. There were two inflamed bumps, and also creamy discharge. I had […]
Alison and I met when we were both fresh from graduate school. It was impossible to get full-time jobs in our field without books or much experience yet, so we both applied and got jobs at a college preparatory organization looking for people to teach high school students how to write college acceptance letters. We […]
