I question what message we, as women, have internalized when we spend thousands of dollars to alter our bodies for the sake of a selfie. My husband and I got engaged in the spring of my senior year in college. I was 23. Just days out from graduation, I defended my thesis on a Tuesday afternoon, came […]
The question he asked me before we had sex was so perfect, it still gives me chills. “OMG, Emily…can you please write an essay about that?” I was sitting in a slouchy wine bar with some lady friends discussing a guy I had just started dating. Although the group raised some potential red flags (Yellow […]
On Tuesday Jessica Valenti at the Guardian argued that the French have better sex because of our “American prudishness and male-centric sex.” Can the same be said for Latinos? The Guardian’s feminist columnist Jessica Valenti has to be admired for her chutzpah, even if sometimes her execution is a bit messy. In her column on Tuesday, […]
Breakups are even worse when you don’t know what happens next. 1. You will engage in small acts of self-destruction. I once did not eat a single morsel of food for days, so despondent I was at the loss of a man I loved. He did not love me in the least. I told him (nine or […]
This originally appeared on Alternet. Republished here with permission. Thanks to America’s schizoid attitude toward sex, we get the wrong message about some essential relationship and sex issues. Most Americans, parents included, support the idea of comprehensive sex education. But, as Americans slowly wean themselves off the failure that was “abstinence-only education,” few people are […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Warning: This is Melissa’s story, as told to Alice Williams, and may upset some readers. I still don’t really think of myself as a victim of domestic violence, but the truth is I was. Andrew and I had huge chemistry when we met. I […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Of course I didn’t think that this was how things would turn out: as a little girl, reading stories in which every woman’s narrative (even the feminist ones, like Anne Shirley of Green Gables) concluded in the happiness of coupledom, I did not anticipate […]
Men and women will not be comfortable labeling themselves as bisexual if the label is riddled with negative implications. He’s a bisexual. The weird thing was, he was so open about it. When did this all happen? When did the sexes get all confused? I’m not even sure if bisexuality exists. It’s greedy! He’s double-dipping! […]
