Have you been feeling like you should probably pay someone to slice off part of your labia so you can conform to some 100% arbitrary "ideal crotch region" beauty standard that only matters to shitheads and 15-year-old boys whose entire understanding of sex comes from internet porn? Well, you're not alone! » 7/22/14 6:15pm 7/22/14 6:15pm

Alexandra Shulman, the editor of British Vogue, is so bored of people asking her why models are unrealistically thin. » 3/17/14 2:00pm 3/17/14 2:00pm

Remember Moesha’s best friend Kim? Well, Countess Vaughn, the actress who played Brandy's buddy on the late 1990's sitcom, was a big fan of lacefront wigs — just like many celebrities — but with disastrous results. » 3/17/14 12:05pm 3/17/14 12:05pm

A woman working as an unlicensed beautician faces charges after a botched butt-enhancement injection resulted in the death of a woman. » 3/12/14 9:40am 3/12/14 9:40am

Pop quiz: If a woman looks old + sexy and no one is around to validate her, does she still emit a breathy whimper? No really, in order to be sexy, who has to "agree" that you're sexy? Any passing stranger? A panel of Russian judges? The answer is one person, and one person only: You. The rest is sexy magic. And you… » 2/04/14 10:20am 2/04/14 10:20am

Much virtual ink has been spilled over the past few days over the Oxford Dictionary's choice of "selfie" for 2013 word of the year. But I've noticed among the chorus of opinions on the social media self portrait an annoying trend: the selfie evangelist. Selfies are just dandy, they say, because they're a way for… » 11/21/13 12:20pm 11/21/13 12:20pm

Sociologists like to say that gender identities are socially constructed. That just means that what it is, and what it means, to be male or female is at least partly the outcome of social interaction between people – visible through the rules, attitudes, media, or ideals in the social world. » 11/19/13 6:15pm 11/19/13 6:15pm

The compound used in chemical peels—the anti-aging procedure performed by dermatologists—is raising concern after a growing number of studies suggest it could be a carcinogen. It turns out that pouring acid all over your face could actually be dangerous. Huh. » 10/25/13 10:50am 10/25/13 10:50am

Like the eponymous witches of Roald Dahl's The Witches, all of the heterosexual women in the world have conspired together to hide their true appearances (talons; baldness; square feet) from all men. How deep does this conspiracy go? Well, according to a new study, the average woman will wait four weeks and one day… » 10/17/13 6:00pm 10/17/13 6:00pm

If you're more partial to maximum makeup, people might want to make the sex with you, but there could be a detrimental effect on whether they like or trust you. Okay, science, tell us something sexist we didn't know already. » 10/17/13 1:20pm 10/17/13 1:20pm