How did Friends With Kids get romance right? According to Eric Sentell, the movie accurately illustrates romance through shared meaning and relationship rituals, not stereotypical Hollywood sex. In the recent dramedy, Friends with Kids, the principle characters discover that romance isn’t everything they thought it was. To which I reply, “Duh.” Serial-dater Jason Fryman (Adam […]
This originally appeared on RealAdultSex.com. Republished here with permission. Kind of weird what you get when you run that L.A. Times article about Tim Gunn’s 29 years of celibacy through Regender.com. The original article is kind of a piece of work. The reporter (and, evidently tens of thousands of people querying Google) are somewhere between […]
Sex + Relationships Editor Clarisse Thorn speaks with Mark Manson, a former men’s dating coach, about the pickup artist community, self-esteem issues, and how improving your relationship with your partner begins with improving yourself. I first met Mark Manson while researching “pickup artists,” also known as the “seduction community”—a group of guys who trade tips […]
Media in English-speaking culture, largely written by men, tends to give us the impression that women are all attractive and can pretty much have sex whenever they want. They just have to agree to whatever offers from men are on the table right now. We men, on the other hand, have to earn sex, and what we look like […]
This originally appeared at In Our Words: A Salon for Queers & Co. Republished here with permission. Dana Norris went on 71 Internet dates in the space of two years. This was not one of them. (We posted the first date here, the second date here, the third date here, and the fourth date here.) So […]
Most of the pickup artists (PUAs) departed the club around 1 AM, except for David, still hilariously out of place in his sparkly suit. We hit the dance floor again until David asked, “Want to go get something to eat?” “Sure,” I said, and left the club with him. On our way out we ran […]
Despite the betrayal and public humiliation, some political wives, such as Silda Spitzer, remain with their philandering husbands long after the scandal. But what makes them stay? Today marks four years since the former first couple of New York faced a barrage of cameras when Governor Spitzer resigned from office, felled by his status as […]
This was originally published at 21st Century Relationships. Republished here with permission. When I was steeped in the brew of online dating, one phrase that was commonplace amongst the profiles was “No drama.” Sometimes it was put as simple as that. Other times, the writer would go on and on about the lying, cheating, arguing, […]
