The Friday Five

This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women.

1. Must Women ‘Civilize’ Men? by Joan Walsh of Salon.com says that at the root of the conservative war on contraception is a deep-seated anxiety about the traditional family.

2. Life Without Sex: The Third Phase of the Asexuality Movement by Rachel Hills of The Atlantic says that now that he’s raised awareness of his lifestyle, David Jay, founder of AVEN, is working to change mainstream beliefs about sex drives.

3. Why Are Women Spending More Time in Labor? by KJ Dell’Antonia of The New York Times Motherlode parenting blog  says that today, women spend about two hours longer in labor than their 1960s peers did. Is medical intervention the reason—and is longer labor necessarily bad?

4. Women as Breadwinners? Nothing New for Black Folks by Zerlina Maxwell of Ebony responds to Time magazine’s recent cover story “The Richer Sex” saying that it’s a very familiar story—old news, even—when it comes to the black community.

5. Marriage Maintenance When Money Is Tight by Tara Siegel Bernard of The New York Times says that married couples facing financial problems because of joblessness or foreclosure need not let their relationships dissolve in the process.

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