Everybody sexts. Or, to be more precise, men and women sext, gay and straight people sext, trans and gender-queer folks sext, people of all races, sizes, and (almost all) ages sext. As new research unveiled this week reveals, this impressive diversity, however is almost entirely hidden by the way print media…
Young women are more sexually confident than ever before. Hooking up is less emotionally devastating than we've been led to believe. They enjoy unprecedented personal and professional opportunities. Yet the same book that reports this welcome news also describes contemporary 20-something young women as more…
Print media may be dying in many places, but not in Israel. This week, the new Hebrew edition of Playboy hit the newsstands of the Holy Land; as the Times of Israel reported, the magazine's famous articles will now be read right to left for the first time.
Want to make straight men better in bed — and better feminist allies? The path may be simple: fuck them up the ass. According to one brand new book, the path to making men more compassionate, appreciative and playful may be straight through their butts.
When it comes to what we're taught about men, sex, and self-control, most of us learn one maxim early on: "a hard dick has no conscience." The wording may vary, but the claim is always the same: guys, especially young dudes who are still in or just emerging from the testosterone tsunami of puberty, are powerless in…
Age is never just a number. Of all the takeaways from the most-recent episode of Girls, that's one of the most unmistakable. Though "One Man's Trash" has been the most-discussed installment of this season (and perhaps of the entire show), much of the commentary has focused on the mind-blowingly insipid suggestion that…
Is monogamy impossible? Yes, according to a spate of recent books and articles. After years and years of writing article after article about "affair-proofing" your marriage, advice columnists for women are taking a different tack. Stop pursuing the impossible dream of sexual satisfaction with a single person, and…
It may be freezing cold outside, but as the store windows remind us, spring is on its way. Along with the Easter bunny and the return of baseball, the rapidly approaching season is sure to bring a new round of hand-wringing and pearl-clutching about young women's "immodest" attire. The viral response this month to…
This is funny! I was prepared to be kinda annoyed, but instead, I fell in love with all of these dudes. Without vaginas, there wouldn't be gay boys, because, like, they come out of them. And, as a woman, I want to say, "Thank vagina for that!" Because a significant portion of the most important moments in my life…
Don't tell my daughter, but before the month is out, she's getting a princess-themed surprise party for her 4th birthday. We've hired a much-recommended princess party service to provide an actress who'll play Aurora (Sleeping Beauty, Heloise's favorite) and show up in full regalia to entertain 10 children for 90…
Please don't call them "adult novelties" anymore. They're "pleasure products" or "sex accessories," and as last week's XBiz Awards and accompanying conference (link NSFW) in Los Angeles made clear, those products continue to grow more sophisticated, more diverse, and more accessible. The Swedish company Lelo was named…
Still grieving over Sandy Hook? While your tear ducts are still flowing, how about shedding a few empathetic drops for a much broader group of victims: depressed and discombobulated white males. Those who once were heroes, filled with a sense of purpose and place? They're now lost young men, reeling from the rapid…
From San Francisco, the sex and technology capital of the United States, which I can say because I live here and I am the apex of both sex and technology, comes a combo vibrator/flash drive that will both get you off and hold an entire season of Arrested Development! Technology, you're the greatest.
If your boyfriend ranks lower on the "attractiveness scale" than you do, is he more likely to stay faithful? Conventional wisdom says yes. It assumes that less attractive people have fewer opportunities to stray, and that the "less hot" partners in relationship will feel so fortunate to be dating "out of their league"…
These may not be the best of times for women on the Internet, as recent episodes of ugly misogynistic trolling make all too clear. On the other hand the end of 2012 is bringing Good News about Good Guys with a renaissance of passionate anti-sexist male activism, online and in real life. Is this upsurge in dudely…
Could you forgive your spouse for having an extramarital affair? When it comes to relationships, it's hard to think of a more perennial question. When I was in college, my friends and I -– most of us children of divorced parents -– would argue with high emotion about whether any committed monogamous relationship could…
Men are dogs. Guys only want one thing. The human male evolved to be promiscuous. From Charlie Sheen to David Petraeus, our cultural landscape is littered with seemingly endless examples of men who in one way or another live down to these low expectations. Perhaps men are just hardwired to disappoint, and the sooner…
More than 200 years of American bro-ocracy have come to an end.
Do women know men better than those men know themselves? Probably not, but the hopeful expectation that they do is one of the most irresistible (and under-acknowledged) drivers of extramarital affairs. The resignation of CIA director David Petraeus following the revelation of an extramarital affair, like the John…
Hey, in case you've forgotten in the midst of the unification of Sandy relief that there are some arguments you really can't take a side on, here's the latest in Catch 22s!
