prophylactic tactics
Despite what
drug company ads might tell us, birth control isn't all hot tubs and flirtinis. Actually, a lot of women have really terrible reactions to the myriad forms of no-baby elixir currently on the market, and on
Nerve.com, Nicole Ankowski shares her particularly
violent reaction to the Ortho-Evra patch. Four years ago Ankowski affixed the patch to her booty, and the 24-hours following turned into a hellish, moody painfest culminating in a puddle of barf on her corduroys while in high speed traffic. This is especially noteworthy because the patch had originally been marketed by Johnson & Johnson as a lower-estrogen birth control option, but as Ankowski notes, they were
lying!
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Groomer Has It
They say the best things in life are free, but according to
Nerve,
sex has a very real cost. Nerve editors asked nine people — singletons, married people and non-wed couples alike — how much money they spend in and around getting in and around, from birth control to grooming to dates. The results were traditional in a way that shocked me. Women, even the married ones, tended to spend most of their cash on hair, make-up and clothing in order to make themselves attractive to get laid. Men tended to spend money on women — buying them drinks, meals and event tickets — to get laid.
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gold digging 101
MSNBC has an article about the host of dating sites hooking up the young and hot with the
old, crochety and fantastically wealthy. John Fergus, who used to be a "sugar daddy" on a website called
SeekingArrangement.com, said that he was scandalized to find the site filled with women he thought were "golddiggers" and not really looking for love. John Fergus needs to get his head out of his ass, because the site advertises itself as "the premier dating website for sugar daddies, mommies and babies." Also: "sugar babies"? Ew! Anyway, today on Nerve, Lisa Carver has an essay about the perils of dating a rich dude, which is not the Louis Vuitton-outfitted panacea that the women on
the Real Housewives of Orange County make it out to be. Not surprisingly, Carver finds that her rich boyfriend expects her to do all the 50s housewifely planning things that he's too busy to deal with as the CEO or COO or whatever of a huge company.
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Jezebel
Dangerous Mind?
Dating confession of the day, via Nerve: "I would love to tell all the beautiful women I randomly see on the street how they look, but I don't want to come off as a perv." Really depends on what you mean by "how they look," doesn't it? [Nerve.com]
Pot Psychology
