The extended trailer for Fifty Shades Freed, the final film in the sleek sexual punishment trilogy, is out and delving into new, exciting erotic territory: the marriage of a wealthy, monogamous couple.
While it’s not particularly shocking that notorious philanderer Hugh Grant doesn’t believe in monogamy, now that he’s finally said it out loud it’s hard to not resent that he set so many of us up to believe in love.
Over the course of a human life, while many of us remain true to form in an astonishing number of ways, we also grow and change.
Open marriage can teach its participants about a lot of things—trust, communication, attraction, the limits of our own possessive and jealous hearts—and now we’ve got one more to add to the list, with this one man who says that agreeing to sleep with other people has helped him finally get feminism. Readers, however,…
Today we have a lesson on never sharing anything with your family, ever, and certainly not if it involves the details of your not-exactly-traditional marriage.
For a long time, the construction of gendered sexual behavior went like this: Men aren't hardwired for monogamy, but women, being more invested in emotional bonds and offspring resources, are. But it's becoming increasingly clear that women aren't exactly thrilled with the same old every night either. Research shows…
Researchers from the Bonn University Medical Center in Germany performed a new experiment that suggest oxytocin is responsible for strengthening monogamy in men. Dr. René Hurlemann, executive senior physician from the Bonn University Medical Center, notes that "an important role in partner bonding is played by the…
We learned a lot about monogamy in mammals this week, specifically, that it evolved because it's good for the health of the species, which is usually why things evolved. Exactly how that works, however, is still up for debate. Is it because there's so much space on earth and males had to pick a lady to make sure they…
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…
The latest Atlantic features an article called "A Million First Dates: How online romance is threatening monogamy"—a shallow, moony hagiography of "simpler times" trussed up like trenchant social analysis. Huzzah. Online dating, author Dan Slater argues, is destroying monogamy by giving people (he says people, but he…
Urban coyotes may be many things, — fuzzy, wily, sinewy, menacing, disdainful of golden retrievers, purloiners of newborn infant sons — but you might not have known that they're also living, loping, and prowling Valentines. That's because urban coyotes are, without exception, entirely, 100 percent, meatball-nosing,…
New CDC organ donor guidelines could discourage many healthy people from donating — because they demand that any donor who's had two or more sex partners in the last year be designated "high-risk."
"You may have to erotic dance in one of your first moves, but you make up the rules to your ultimate game. The point is, this board game gets couples talking again. When you're in a relationship for a while, lots of couples stop asking their partners even conversational questions, like how are you. This game reminds…
Discussions of infidelity tend to freak everybody out. But contrary to popular belief, it is possible to talk about monogamy, non-monogamy, sex, and cheating in a rational way.
Random fact — I never dated until last year, at 22. It sounds weird because I'd been in relationships before, so I checked in with one of my best friends from college and asked her if I ever dated anyone. Sure you did, she said, you married him. Luls. Dating for the past year has taught me important things about what…
A recent Oregon State University study found that in 40% of heterosexual couples, one partner claimed that the coupling was monogamous while the other claimed that no such agreement existed. Marriage and children did not increase monogamy between couples.
Mmm. Adultery to the tune of a three-way relationship with his wife and another male employee of his church. And it goes down nice and smooth.
Author Helen Boyd, on how celibacy, monogamy and being picky (which can cause the other two) can be sexier (and more feminist) than actually doing it. [My Husband Betty, Image via Sarah G. on Flickr]
Women enjoy sex. Often, they like it as much as men do - if not more. As much as this seems obvious to us, this is still in many ways a radical statement. Just ask Holly Hill.
Nicholas Sarkozy is making bizarre claims that "Anglo-Saxon financiers" are spreading rumors about his infidelity to destroy France, but the really unusual thing about the scandal is Carla Bruni's role in it.
