The End of Sex by Donna Frietas is getting a lot of action lately, with reviews calling it “important, wise, and brave” (The Atlantic), “illuminating” (WSJ), “straight-forward, well-researched, and eye-opening” (Publishers Weekly), and with Frietas herself penning an editorial for the Washington Post and nabbing a coveted spot on The Today Show. Subtitled “How Hookup […]
photo via flickr April is National Poetry Month, so we thought we’d celebrate by sharing with you one of our favorite erotic poems. This poem by Christina Rossetti is a little more, er subtle than Fifty Shades of Grey — it’s not exactly wank material. But we were in the mood for a classic. And […]
photo via flickr The Frisky: Why the male anti-masturbation movement is actually a good thing. Nerve: Why do we care more about other people’s sex lives than our own? YourTango: 10 tell-tale signs that he’s cheating on you. PopSugar: What to do when you don’t like him back. How About We: Why I’m saving myself […]
Nerve: 9 hand-drawn maps of NY that will break your heart The Frisky: 10 things Joan Holloway would say about dating. How About We: Friends are the new marriage. PopSugar: Beautiful Bastard is the new Fifty Shades. YourTango: 10 movies to get you in the mood. HuffPo Women: How to accept your body, in GIFs. 150 Shades of Play: Moms are kinky […]
We’re now writing for the new site, ArchetypeMe. You can check out our articles every week in the Rebel Archetype section. In order to explain what ArchetypeMe is exactly, let’s start with some definitions from the site: Ar • che • type [ahr-ki-type] noun: A universal pattern of behavior that motivates everything we do An Archetype […]
The Frisky: The “Princeton Mom” is lying to you. How About We: 10 signs you have FOBU (fear of breaking up). PopSugar: 17 reasons why every ’90s girl needed a cellphone. YourTango: Become an expert kisser in 6 simple steps. HuffPo Women: Why mean girls still exist after high school. Nerve: Admit it: Don Draper […]
photo by Alexandra DeFurio Our good friend, colleague, and fellow shameless Bachelor fan, Laurie Sandell, is a successful freelance magazine writer (Marie Claire, New York, In Style), graphic memoirist (The Impostor’s Daughter), nonfiction book author (Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family) and coffee shop dweller (18th Street Coffee Shop in Santa Monica). This past […]
You know how major celebrities like Brad Pitt and George Clooney stoop to appear in advertisements overseas — especially in Asia — on the promise that the ads never show in the U.S.? They shill for everything from cars to booze in ads that look impossibly fake because we are shielded from them. Well, it […]
The following is from our very own naughty dictionary, 150 SHADES OF PLAY: A Beginner’s Guide to Kink. Bolded words signify individual entries that appear elsewhere in the A-to-Z section of the book. Anything with a tie icon indicates an activity or prop mentioned in the Fifty Shades series (symbolic of the famous woven tie Christian Grey uses to restrain Anastasia Steele…and oh […]
PopSugar: Every Ryan Gosling GIF They Could Find! How About We: Dating Advice as Told by Cats The Frisky: 5 Things To Know About Edith “Edie” Windsor, The 83-Year-Old Lesbian Challenging The Defense Of Marriage Act Nerve: What It’s Like to Be the Only Girl on the “Girls Gone Wild” Crew YourTango: Is Your Shower Soap Increasing Your […]
Even if Christa Parravani wasn’t a friend of ours, we would be insisting that you check out her brand new memoir Her. It’s the heartbreaking, beautiful, compelling, and ultimately uplifting story of what happens when someone loses their identical twin. After Christa’s sister Cara was brutally raped at age 24 and a few years later […]
The Frisky: Dealbreaker: His penis made me cry. Nerve: Sheryl Sandberg says doing men laundry gets ladies in the sack (but how does that kind of thinking help women?). YourTango: 3 signs you’re in a love-hate relationship. HuffPo Women: 11 things that will change when more women are single. How About We: There are no […]
Earlier this week, we stumbled upon Zen Garage’s post about a 2010 performance art piece by Marina Abramovic at her MoMa retrospective, in which she shared a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Back in the 70s, she had an intense love affair with a fellow artist by the name of […]
HuffPo Women: Where did all the condoms go on “Girls”? Nerve: 10 incredibly weird things the world likes in its porn. The Frisky: One’s first time using a vibrating love ring. YourTango: CONTEST: What’s the best marriage advice you’ve ever received? How About We: New survey says the ideal age gap in a relationship is… TresSugar: Fifty Shades author […]
photo via flickr Sometimes the hash tags that trend on Twitter can make you hate humankind (#fatfilms this week, really, people? Are we back in junior high? What’s next, awards for “Most Outgoing” Twitter feed?!)… and sometimes they just make you want to reach out and hug someone. And sometimes they do both, as with this […]
Never be a narc. It won’t get you laid or married. Ever. (We’re talking to you, Kacie.) If you want your music career to go nowhere, get booked on The Bachelor (even more effective if the couple you’re supposed to perform for breaks up before you strum your first note). If you’re going to an […]
