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Amy Poehler’s Honest Relationship Advice: Maintenance Sex is OK
Is “maintenance sex” any different than maintenance dish washing or yard mowing or watching the kids? Is it any different than maintenance listening or maintenance talking or maintenance going to the...
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“Fifty Shades of Grey” Doesn’t Have the Market on Sexy
There’s been plenty of buzz around the release of Fifty Shades of Grey. While the movie trailers give us a few hints of what’s to come, those who’ve read the books know how sexually explicit it us....
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Fifty Shades of Grey: I Have Other Fanatasies
With the release of the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey, I’m reminded that I have fantasies. Oh, do I have fantasies. They wake me up in the middle of the night; they keep me from work; they...
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Dear Valentine’s Day: I Hate You
Confession: I really hate Valentine’s Day. If you’re single, then the holiday makes you feel like a loser for not having a Valentine. If you’re in a relationship, the pressure builds to top the last...
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Cupid’s Weekend Cocktails: It Takes Two
Whew! With so much chatter about Fifty Shades of Grey, bondage and Valentine’s Day, who doesn’t need a drink either before or after? In honor of Cupid’s holiday, here are two cocktails to jump start...
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Reinvention Culture is Killing Me
I am feeling very inadequate. In the past year I finished a novel I have been working on for five years, began a new novel, contributed essays to two upcoming anthologies, and jettisoned some very...
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Powerful Sexual Female Role Models of a “Certain Age”
Growing up in the rural South in the ‘50s and ‘60s I didn’t get much education about sex, but I understood that my ‘sex’ was to be safely guarded until the right man came along. There was June...
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The Space Between Love and Fear
What is it that we find so charming about the adventures of those much older than ourselves? What is it that is so endearing about films, like Cocoon, in which groups of “elderly” men and women (it...
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Amy Schumer’s Brilliant Take on Sexism and “Women of a Certain Age”
We can sit around all day talking about feminism, sexism and biases against women in our society, especially when it comes to “women of a certain age.” There’s always plenty of fodder — Hillary Clinton...
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“Grace and Frankie”: Helping Me Cope with Those Moments of Life-Shifting Change
Image via Netflix/Melissa Moseley I’m leaving a space I love, a space that feels so ‘right’ for me. It feels like I’m losing my identity. I am watching the new show Grace and Frankie on Netflix, a...
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“Lay, Lady, Lay”: Sex and The Pill in The Seventies
The take-home message was clear in the 1970s: if you wanted to compete, to stay in school, pursue a career, or get a great education, you would have to meet men at the table on equal footing....
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That “Little Pink Pill” Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Maybe it’s not women behind the push for a Viagra of their own. Here is what Viagra does: it allows a man to get an erection so that he can have intercourse with a woman when his body isn’t...
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The Science of Kissing
Happy National Kissing Day!! We’ve been admirers of Sheril Kirshenbaum for a long time. For National Kissing Day, it’s only natural to spend a little time with her work on the science of kissing! Image...
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Magic Mike XXL: Male Strippers, Women’s Fantasies and Why We Should Stop...
Don’t the Magic Mike films objectify men? Well, yes. And I enjoy that. But they get far better treatment than most female characters in standard Hollywood films. Finally, those lovely hunky hunks of...
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Let’s Celebrate the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality, But Let’s...
Here’s a quick look back at some of the most significant moments in our country’s long and turbulent history with gay rights: With the 2016 presidential race starting to gear up, many candidates are...
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Amy Poehler’s Honest Relationship Advice: Maintenance Sex is OK
Is “maintenance sex” any different than maintenance dish washing or yard mowing or watching the kids? Is it any different than maintenance listening or maintenance talking or maintenance going to the...
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“Fifty Shades of Grey” Doesn’t Have the Market on Sexy
There’s been plenty of buzz around the release of Fifty Shades of Grey. While the movie trailers give us a few hints of what’s to come, those who’ve read the books know how sexually explicit it us....
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Fifty Shades of Grey: I Have Other Fanatasies
With the release of the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey, I’m reminded that I have fantasies. Oh, do I have fantasies. They wake me up in the middle of the night; they keep me from work; they...
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Dear Valentine’s Day: I Hate You
Confession: I really hate Valentine’s Day. If you’re single, then the holiday makes you feel like a loser for not having a Valentine. If you’re in a relationship, the pressure builds to top the last...
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Cupid’s Weekend Cocktails: It Takes Two
Whew! With so much chatter about Fifty Shades of Grey, bondage and Valentine’s Day, who doesn’t need a drink either before or after? In honor of Cupid’s holiday, here are two cocktails to jump start...
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