Here’s the Question Every Man Is Asking After the Amazing Jimmy Fallon...
Here’s the question men are asking after that amazing Jimmy Fallon interview with Nicole Kidman the other night: Did I unwittingly blow off a staggeringly beautiful woman who wanted to date me ten...
View ArticleHow Orthodox Judaism’s Laws of Modesty Gave Me a Sense of Style
I’m as average as they come. For as long as I can remember, doctors have invariably concluded at my annual visit that my height and weight were within the fiftieth percentile. My childhood was...
View ArticleBreathless: Does Sex Get Better With Age?
I lost my virginity at 16, but I didn’t come during sex until I was 22. That’s normal, right? No? I recently confessed this to a friend, and she responded by putting her hand on my knee and gasping,...
View Article#NoFilter: Experimenting With an Unedited Online Life
I’m here to admit that I’ve been living a lie. Or, to be more specific, I’ve been Instagramming one. Ever since I downloaded the app 151 weeks and 755 posts ago, my personal feed has evolved from...
View ArticleWhy Don’t We Believe Women Who Say They Have Been Raped?
In October, the comedian Hannibal Buress was performing in Philadelphia when he went on a rant about the venerated comedian and Philadelphian Bill Cosby. He excoriated the image Cosby had cultivated...
View ArticleBreathless: Are You Dating Your Doppelgänger?
The first time I heard the term twinning, I was in my early twenties. My new best friend at the time, whom I’ll call Ben, was a tall, deathly thin nerd with oversize glasses, shoulder-length bleached...
View ArticleBreathless: Are You Stealing Your Partner’s Personality?
In middle school, I used to jokingly refer to my best friend’s older sister as The Shapeshifter. She seemed to have zero autonomous personality, but rather adopted, drastically and transparently, the...
View ArticleSocial Media Breakup Etiquette: How to Handle Past Relationships on Facebook...
Breaking up used to be a largely personal matter. You could toss away all the photos, love letters, and other remnants of a past relationship or stash them in the coat closet, never to be seen again....
View ArticleStop Asking Me to Post Photos of My Baby Bump on Instagram
Last week, rumors swirled about whether or not Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake were expecting a baby, thanks to a paparazzi photo of the actress that may or may not have captured a possible baby...
View ArticleStreet Harassment Is Universal and Age-Old
This week, I watched a video of a woman who was catcalled more than 100 times in the course of a ten-hour walk through Manhattan. You probably watched it, too. The comments she received from men were...
View ArticleBreathless: Dating Is Impossible when You’re Still in Love with Your Ex
There are many stages of heartbreak. Three months deep into my break-up, I have experienced almost all of them. First there’s shell shock, followed by denial, and then some combination of paralysis,...
View ArticleWhy Now Is the Right Time to Discuss Paid Maternity Leave
Reproductive rights, covered contraception, and the pay gap have made headlines during election season in recent years. But there is a closely related issue that doesn’t get nearly as much attention,...
View ArticleJennifer Lawrence’s Statement on Her Nude Photo Leak Is a Game Changer
This morning, Vanity Fair published a snippet of its upcoming cover story on Jennifer Lawrence, in which the actress addresses the leaking of her nude photos in August. “It is not a scandal. It is a...
View ArticleBreathless: I Was Dumped Two Months Ago, and I’m Still Heartbroken
Expand It’s been two months since my ex-girlfriend and I broke up—or since she broke up with me, I should say—and I’m miserable. We all understand that breakups are meant to be difficult and painful....
View ArticleMaggie Rizer on Returning to the Runway After a Decade of Not Modeling
I should have been nervous. I was walking onto a set for photographers Luigi & Iango, surrounded by girls like Carolyn Murphy, Stephanie Seymour, Guinevere Van Seenus, Karen Elson, and Kirsten...
View ArticleLiu Wen, the First Asian Spokesmodel for Estée Lauder, Writes About Changing...
Beautiful. It’s one of those rare words that describes itself. In Mandarin Chinese, there are two common expressions that capture its meaning: “美丽” (Mei li) or its more informal counterpart,“漂亮” (Piao...
View ArticleConnected: Are Emoji Making us Emojinally Unavailable?
Expand Maybe you love them, maybe you hate them, maybe you [See-No-Evil Monkey] them, but there’s no denying that emoji are in the digital air. There’s just something about those funky little...
View ArticleAre Pet Names Endearing or Annoying?
Honey, dear, love, babe—we’ve all had our experiences being called pet names. But there are times when a term of endearment can become exactly the opposite. There’s a difference between being friendly...
View ArticleMeet the Run-Drawer Whose Racy App Art Has Taken the Internet by Storm
Expand Illustrated by Anthony Bayoneto In case you missed it, last week the Internet was running wild with the creative run-drawings Claire Wyckoff posted on Instagram and Tumblr. Using the Nike+ app...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Airbnb Economy
When I was younger, I made a vow never to spend the summer in New York City. Back then, I had the dumb idea that all the good times were elsewhere, so I found myself doing things I am now ashamed of,...
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