I come back from the bathroom, and she’s leafing through my Quran.

Taylor Swift is the subject of Vogue’s latest 73 Questions video, and boy is it a disappointment. (Compared to Sarah Jessica Parker’s wonderful installment, they’ve all been pretty dull.) Though it was sort of fun to get an intimate glimpse of Swift’s Beverly Hills home, I learned only four interesting things during…

With Love True, Israeli director Alma Har’el dove into the myriad ways that wholly loving another person can play out—romantic, platonic, familial—and emerged with what looks to be a dreamstate of a documentary, full of woozy shots set to an original score by Flying Lotus. For some of the scenes, Har’el asked her…

Texting/sexting, direct messages, Twitter, Instagram DMs and online dating aren’t enough when it comes to getting to know a person. What a healthy relationship really needs is a lot less... how do you say... talking. If the human race is to survive, there needs to be a severe reduction in our level of interaction with…

Video games are very good at teaching, even if they have to repeat the lesson over and over. Sometimes the lesson is “don’t fall into that bottomless pit.” Other times it’s “she’s just not that into you.”

I love them.

Quick, dim the lights: A large-scale study of sexual satisfaction and overall happiness in long-term couples found that the happiest couples do two things better than you: fuck and talk (about fucking). They also do lots of different sex moves, including oral, and give each other orgasms. And when these things are…

Love is alive and so is sex. Sally Mustang and Mitch Gobel, two uninhibited lovers from Australia, are speaking out after facing censorship from Instagram over their dangerously sensual photos.

On Sunday, happy couples around the world celebrated their love by exchanging chocolate and/or heart-shaped gifts, eating a nicer-than-average meal, and having longer-than-average sex. Famous people, being just like us and all, did this too—only for an audience of millions. Some did this well, and others did it poorly.

It’s Valentine’s Day, so couples everywhere will be artificially forced to evaluate their relationship status based on an arbitrary holiday that has no real bearing on the strength of their love. Or you could skip that and read the new co-written memoir The Marriage Test, which tells the story of a plucky couple on…

Lobsters like their foreplay.

This Sunday morning, as I do on every Valentine’s Day, I will wake up to a message from my mother. Last year, it was a long email sent at an ungodly early hour, carrying all of her usual, heartfelt, holiday-appropriate sentiments: “Today is not only about boyfriends/girlfriends or husbands/wives but also about the…

Punk pioneer Johnny Rotten once sneered, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” And that’s how you may feel reading a New Yorker piece about the ideal marriage according to novels, wherein novelist Adelle Waldman lays bare the depressing reality that since forever and still now, women want an intellectual equal…

Dear Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna,

Netflix released a pair of clips for its upcoming rom-com Love, a series about moldy yogurt (j/k it’s about love!), starring Paul Rust and Community’s Gillian Jacobs.

It’s a sad day for love. A notorious hotspot for mature ladies and the men who love them in Anaheim Hills, California is closing down.

The New York State Young Republicans—not to be confused with the New York Young Republicans, whose website is much nicer—is a scrappy group. Outnumbered in their home state, and somewhat less maniacal than their southern counterparts, its members seem to need a fancy Christmas gathering more than most; the occasion…

On Sunday night, 24-year-old trainer Ethan Renoe went for a run in the rain during his stay in Chicago. As some men are inclined, Renoe chose not to wear a shirt during said run due to the inclement weather. A reporter for WGN stopped him to discuss both the weather and Renoe’s shirtlessness, the latter of which…

Christmas has come early for superfans of the New York Times’ Modern Love column—the series will be spun off into a new podcast via Boston’s WBUR radio station.

For a brief day and a half the world thought it had rid itself of the romance between a grown man who pronounces his name like a baby and a teen with a mansion. We were not so lucky.