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Straight, Single, Sixty ... and Dating

Snapshots from real life Fernando* plunks down next to Annie* at McDonalds. He’s fifty-nine. She’s seventy, but you’d never know it, he thinks. Nice body. Big breasts. Ample butt. Pretty face. Super funny and wholly confident. You’ve got to love those older women! Three dates, three long kisses, and tonight’s the

Goth, Wannabe, and Christian Sexuality

“Freaks” dressed in all black. “Easy” white girls who date the “wrong” guys. “Good girls” who’d rather pray than date. Goths, Puerto Rican “wannabes”, and Christians are all seen as “odd”, as “freaks,” or as “posers”. Outsiders think they wear

Reflexiones de una adolescente virgen

 Siempre me he preguntado porque mi mamá se molesta cuando le digo que no me interesa seguir conservando esa telita que confirma que no soy activa sexualmente. Es que acaso piensa que estamos en el siglo XIX y que si no sigo teniendo la bendita telita, nadie querrá casarse conmigo?Necesito esa tela para ser feliz? Lo que ignora mi madre es

Picking Up the Locals

Juneau, Alaska: If you can’t find a fling with days this long, you ain’t getting lucky anywhere.

Growing Up Sexually

My first kiss was during a game of spin the bottle in the basement of a friend’s house. I was in seventh grade and in that one night I kissed four boys. After this event, where a number of my friends had lost their kissing virginity, I remember exchanging incredulous remarks with them: “How did we live before this?”

Soldiers

Thousands of troops have been injured in Afghanistan and Iraq. The soldiers—most of them young men under 25—are vulnerable to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. But they don't just need physical and mental rehabilitation. Many deserve to learn how to regain a healthy sexuality. Is sex over? Injured vets want answers An

Slow Times in Mixtlan, Mexico

I didn’t know how tough my senior year of college was going to be. What I thought would be a year of drinking, partying, and fun-filled memories had turned into sleepless nights, article deadlines, and an abundance of stress. I knew I had to do something reinvigorating for Christmas vacation.

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Girls Night Out

Getting it on with ... Dani Campbell

Love on the Job

Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen are coauthors of the new book Office Mate: The Employee Handbook for Finding—and Managing—Romance on the Job.

The Beauty of Gray

Last month at a lunch in a restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I had an unusual experience. I, and the three other women with whom I was eating, became the focus of attention from strangers. As we were ushered to our table, every head in the place turned. There was nothing particularly unique about us—we ranged in age from