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Fear of Flying author Erica Jong argues that this generation of young people have grown bored with sex. She knows this because she hangs out with young female writers sometimes, and they're apparently gazing wistfully to the morals of the 1950's, back before Erica Jong and her ilk made pre- and extra-marital sex fun and exciting. More »
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This week, Jezebel Bounty features the book Ambition Is Not a Dirty Word, which has been proclaimed by The New York Times as, "A defiant charge to women to ‘reclaim ambition as a virtue.'" This ambitious giveaway will not only include the book, but the entire bundle with private consulting time with author Dr. Debra Condren of Manhattan Business Consulting. More »
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• This picture of Tavi and Alexa Chung pulling faces at photographers is adorable. That is all. [IsaacLikes
• Obama's Weatherproof billboard was finally taken down. No word on whether the company has gotten Sarah Palin to agree to an ad. [Gothamist]

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In 2008, MIT Professor Dan Ariely got an unexpected thank-you for presenting at a conference: a Prada bag. Carrying the bag made him feel different. Special, even. So he decided to study branding and behavior. More »
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For whatever reason - probably the same reason we cringe at "making love" - learning that Peter Sarsgaard refers to Maggie Gyllenhaal as "lover" is a SNL-like detail we didn't want to know. [NY Times] More »
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We heard from NY Times Style editor Trip Gabriel overnight, and he says no way did his paper out Jason Wu, inadvertently or otherwise. Full denial after the jump. More »
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Recently, while looking at retro-inspired dresses online, I stumbled across something called a "corselette" and gasped. Unlike the gossamer demi-cup bras and bare thongs you see in popular lingerie catalogs, the thing was actually sexy. Mysterious, seductive, cheeky. Coincidentally, Daphne Merkin wrote a piece for yesterday's T: The New York Times Style Magazine which begins, "Where are the girdles of yesteryear?" More »
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In yesterday's "Week in Review" section of the NY Times, Anand Giriharadas tackled last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai and the "personal" turn they took. A few pages later, Op-Ed columnist Nick Kristof inveighed against another type of "personal terrorism", that committed against the large numbers of Pakistani and Afghan women who have been assaulted and disfigured by acid over the decades. It — and its companion video — are worth a look. [NY Times, NY Times, NY Times] More »
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PETA's Ingrid Newkirk defends her organization's objectification of women in a letter published in today's NY Times. Over at the LA Times, Newkirk weighs in on the head of the Humane Society, Wayne Pacelle, calling him a "very charming man" with a "slower approach." [NY Times, LA Times] More »
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Sometimes the New York Times is a little late to the party, so the "Growing Wave Of Teenage Self-Injury" story isn't really "news," per se, but yeah: Cutting is on the rise. Over the weekend I was on a college campus and saw a young lady in a tank top sitting outside of an ice cream parlor. Her hair was pinkish red, her knee socks were striped and her left arm was covered in razor slices — in various stages of healing — from shoulder to wrist. Writes the Times' Jane Brody: "There are no exact numbers for this largely hidden problem, but anonymous surveys among college students suggest that 17% of them have self-injured, and experts estimate that self-injury is practiced by 15% of the general adolescent population." Janis Whitlock, a psychologist doing an eight-college study on self-injury, says that the Internet is spreading the word, prompting many to try it who might not otherwise have known about it. And while some people can't understand why anyone would want to drag a blade across their skin until blood seeps out, it actually makes perfect sense. More »
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You probably heard, but the NY Times' 'Sunday Styles' section was chock-full of goodies this weekend. There was that surprisingly-unannoying 'Modern Love' column (gem of a passage: "As we ate, we theorized about the effects of pornography on romantic relationships. Dinner ended; he had to go pack for his trip. I asked casually when I was going to see him again. He sighed. "That's a loaded question." I asked what he meant, because I thought the question was fairly straightforward"); a story about the "branding" of Burma/Myanmar; and dozens of weddings. (So many weddings. Including one starring a Rockefeller!) More »
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Virginia Heffernan has a piece called "The Girls Of Thinspo" for The New York Times' 'Medium' blog. She touches on the recently-reported news that France is attempting to ban "inciting thinness." Heffernan viewed some thinspo videos and writes, "It's worth trying to figure out how the tragedy of anorexia got woven into the glamour of it." One of the clips is so sad it's kind of hard to watch all the way through — and yet it's just a montatge of pictures of models set to music. The kind of models you see almost everyday in fashion magazines. (It's embedded. Click the pic if you care to see it.) [New York Times] More »
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"When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to a free circumcision event held each spring in Bandung, Indonesia, she is handed over to a small group of women who, swiftly and yet with apparent affection, cut off a small piece of her genitals." More »
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Dear Eddie Lin, More »
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So, you're an unmarried Christian investment banker, and that whole 'no sex before marriage and masturbation will make your penis rot' thing is really getting to you. And you meet a woman at a party who completely doesn't notice you, and mistakes you for a mugger when you chase after her to get her number. And she doesn't fancy you, but you stalk her all over bible class, and when she eventually agrees to go on a date with you, she makes it clear that you are repulsive. Probably because you are. More »
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Apparently they're having a DJ at the Oscars this year, to stop all the drunk celebs wandering off and puking in limos. More interestingly, said DJ will be of the feminine persuasion! We bet you'd like to hear all about it, wouldn't you? Like how she scored the gig, what it means to her, how difficult it is to get to the top in a male-dominated profession? More »
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We finally got around to reading the NY Times obituaries section from yesterday and came across this sad report: Florence Z. Melton, 95, creator of the foam-rubber slipper, has passed away. More »
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When we think of killer make-up, we tend to think of our favorite sparkly green liquid eyeliner, rather than a ravenous face-pack of death. Turns out we were wrong, according to the NY Times. More »
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