This originally appeared on ShrinkTalk.net in a slightly different version. Republished here with permission. During a recent session, a couple who had been married for about five years decided to end their relationship. The wife told the husband very matter-of-factly, saying that “they had simply grown apart and couldn’t stop fighting.” Neither he nor 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 […]
A pre-nup/post-nup marriage agreement made sense to Michael Erard, but not to the woman he planned to wed. Entering a marriage for a pre-determined amount of time—what’s also called a contract marriage—is a good idea, if you ask me, and it deserved the airtime it received in a recent New York Times think piece. Maybe […]
Eric Sentell says if two people view marriage as a temporary commitment, then they will probably treat it as such. When discussing divorce in his critique of American culture, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom argues that our society is quickly adopting a no-risk, low-stakes, consequence-free attitude toward marriage and the family. If […]
Is there a time limit on true love? In the wake of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s much-publicized breakup, it seems that the new Big Question For Society is time-release marriages, as discussed by Matt Richtel in the hallowed pages of the New York Times. That is: marriages on a contract basis, lasting a few years or maybe 20, […]
Lynn Beisner says eating and screwing is what has kept our species alive. Can’t those desires that were at one time life-preserving now be life-affirming? I love that my friends are more evolved than I am. One of the things that I especially love about my friends is that they believe in accepting people of all sizes and […]
Many people praise the power of sports for their potential to increase a young girl’s sense of self-worth and ability to avoid sexual pitfalls, but there are always outliers. I was driving the other day thinking about the power of sports to embolden young women to understand their bodies, feel ownership and control over them, […]
Originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Roger Barnett, founder of Equality for Women and Men, thinks we’re doing a disservice to young men by offering them porn as their only real form of sexual education. I wish someone had sat down with me when I was in my early teens […]
