Originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. Pervasive urban legends linger about aging and sex, perhaps due to America’s lack of interest in its elder citizens. An enormous and depressingly ignorant chasm lies between anatomical fact and sexual mythology. Unfortunately, sexual urban legends persist long after people have clumsily screwed themselves out of their […]
Laurel Hermanson set her standards for perfection so high, even she couldn’t always attain them. Not long after we were married in Chicago, my husband and I had a new tile floor put in our tiny condo kitchen. The contractor moved the refrigerator into the dining room so the tile could set. The next night, […]
Originally appeared on Mamamia. Republished here with permission. “You’ll make a beautiful bride.” With this one sentence I found myself caught like a deer in headlights, en route to an unnecessary—and somewhat misguided—reality check from a stranger. While you might think it sounds like a compliment, a backhand quickly followed. After dishing out advice on […]
Without at least some level of fondness between consenting adults, sex is just biology, and it is boring and detached and empty, says Emily Heist Moss. But is that true for everyone? On my list of sexual partners, I have exactly one regret. I was in college and I picked a willing classmate, someone I […]
Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club and she once went on 71 Internet dates. It’s a Friday night and I’m excited because 1) I’m going to my friend Josh’s birthday party and 2) my rash is much better. I originally noticed the rash a week ago, when I was doing my laundry at […]
Chelsea Cristene discusses the results of OKCupid’s recent research into its users, and she found that she’s nothing like the other women in her demographic. Every once in a while, I experience a moment of cultural awareness so powerful that I can do nothing else but write about it. My latest epiphany came last week […]
Tired of adhering to someone else’s idea of what is “sexy,” Emily Heist Moss finally got rid of all the itchy, lacy, barely-there underthings she never really wanted to begin with. I threw away all my underwear today. Scratch that. Today, I threw away all of my underwear that would be classified as “lacy little […]
Preston Mitchum told people he was HIV negative, when the truth was he’d never been tested. Here, he explains why. Hello. My name is Preston, and I am HIV Negative. Typically you would hear this statement from someone elated to discover they are not HIV positive. But since I think there is an inherent danger […]
