This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women.
1. Secret Service Scandal: GOP Gets Ahead of the Facts by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com says we don’t know what happened in Colombia, but GOP congressmen are already talking about unlikely sexual blackmail.
2. Spanking Goes Mainstream by Katie Roiphe of The Daily Beast says from the steamy bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey to HBO’s Girls, sexual domination is in vogue. She explores why women’s power at work may be fueling the craze. We’re not sure we agree.
3. The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage by Meg Jay of The New York Times says don’t just drift into living together—give it some serious thought and planning.
4. Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? by Stephen Marche in the May issue of The Atlantic magazine says social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)—and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. A report on what the epidemic of loneliness is doing to our souls and our society.
5. Young Women Are More Career-Driven Than Men by Catherine Rampell of The New York Times Economix blog says women 18 to 34 years old now place more importance on having a high-paying career or profession than their male counterparts do, according to survey data from the Pew Research Center.
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