Month
April 2013
40 posts
Ruts and different pages
Read moreRuts are underrated. Being on different pages — that’s the real problem.
Gripe to me
Read moreTell me what you don’t like. I’ll listen.
Seven-letter words
Read moreA friend challenges me to stop using words of seven letters or more. I’m already failing.
Do you know me?
Read moreYou know what I choose to show you, and almost nothing else.
Sex work
Read moreAmong the dozens of women I encountered, what struck me most was the enormous variety — and what that taught me about sex work as a category, not a thing.
Male sexual violence
Read moreWe men are like a kid running with scissors: irresponsible and dangerous.
Terminology (ii)
Read moreA reader asked me to define narcissism. I’m happy to oblige — it’s a word I know intimately.
Terminology (i)
Read moreA glossary of sorts — what I actually mean when I say “compulsion” and “addiction,” and why the distinction matters more than you might think.
Teen sexuality (cont’d)
Read moreA reader responds, thoughtfully and at length, to my earlier post on teen sexuality.
Sex addiction revisited
Read moreI keep circling back to this one, because smart people I admire keep getting it wrong in the same way.