Dana Norris went on 71 Internet dates. This was one of them. (You can find some of her previous dates in this series here, here and here.) So I go home with this guy named Patrick because he’s cute and it’s late and riding the train out to his suburban apartment seems easier than waiting for […]
This originally appeared on CharlieGlickman.com. Republished here with permission. Today is the 20th anniversary of the date that I met my partner. In the last two decades, we’ve both changed a lot. We’re both much more secure and solid in who we are. We’ve grown and challenged each other to overcome many of the habits […]
We slut-shame “bad girls,” yet women want to date “bad boys” and men want to be them, says Christan Marashio. Adam Levine is considered a bad boy. Why, you ask? I have no idea. He’s looks to be about 140 lbs. soaking wet and flinches when cars explode in the background of his videos. I […]
This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. Attitudes about women’s alcohol consumption haven’t changed much. Women who drink are still perceived as being “promiscuous,” “easy,” or more sexually available. Alcohol is a game-changer when it comes to rape. If a woman was drinking when she was raped, she will be doubted and told […]
The latest episode of HBO’s ‘Girls’ was nothing short of disturbing. Emily Heist Moss shares why it shook her so deeply. Since I first stumbled upon it a few weeks ago, there’s a Margaret Atwood quote I can’t shake, “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.” I […]
Newly single Bernadette Murphy has a crush on a new man. Does this mean she’s ready to be in a relationship again or that she’s just craving some companionship? Can I legitimately call it a sexual fantasy when it starts off so chaste it could be a G-rated movie, or an ABC after-school special from […]
To cast a wider net into the dating pool, Christan Marashio opted to list “casual sex” under her OKCupid preferences. She shares the (sometimes funny, sometimes helpful) findings of that experiment. I have used OKCupid off and on for about three years. After a six-month relationship with a man I met on OKCupid ended, I […]
Sure, women might be able to come by sex more easily than men, but that doesn’t mean it’s good sex. “Women don’t have to work for it.”“Women are the gatekeepers to sex.”“Women can just walk into a bar and someone will have sex with them.”“Women can get laid whenever they want.” When you write about […]
Despite what the pages of Cosmopolitan have said for decades, men need romance too. Dear Cosmopolitan Magazine, Imagine my shock when this week I discovered that you have been lying to me and American women for decades now. Ninety percent of young women in America look to you as a significant source of sexual education, […]
Originally appeared on World’s Most Famous Man. Republished here with permission. So let me just get two things out of the way before I get really, really deep in detail about one specific aspect of the Oscars intro Sunday night: 1) It was super, super-long and self-indulgent. Even by Oscar standards. It was like half […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Let’s Not Panic Over Women With More Education Having Fewer Kids by Philip Cohen of The Atlantic says though the phenomenon has been called “reverse Darwinism,” a look at the facts and figures reveals it’s not […]
Porn plays a significant role in shaping sexual culture, so the more porn reflects a feminist perspective on sex, the better off we’ll all be, says Russell O’Connor. It’s a common complaint among feminists that pornography “objectifies” women. Rightly so, since a lot of it does. Most (straight) pornography really does present women as mere […]
