2014

By now you’ve surely heard about the Hollaback video that went viral of a woman walking around New York for ten hours, being repeatedly catcalled, her harassers caught on hidden video. If you didn’t, you can watch it here: I…

I’m pretty cynical, in general. I don’t write (much) about my politics. If you don’t want to learn a bit more – not so much about my political proclivities as about how I think about politics, don’t click through. Though…

A short thin skirt over black tights. Ideally? Super-thin, flimsy even, cotton. But the material is just gravy. Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) exemplifies this.

Once more, Tinder has cut me off, mid-conversation. Just deactivated my account, preventing me from interacting, consensually, with people. If you were chatting with me, I didn’t un-match you. Tinder deactivated my account. I’m easy to find on the “contact…

I was raised to believe that Playboy oppressed women, objectified women, created unrealistic expectations on the part of men, and was, in general, a force for evil. That may or may not be true. I don’t know. But this is…

I recently wrote that I thought my discomfort with rough sex has something to do with my ambivalent relationship toward aggression, with the difficulty I feel in accessing it, particularly in sexual interactions with women. (And, to confuse things a…

She’s striking, hot, sexy. She’s – by far – the youngest person in the room. She’s in her late 20s. The second-youngest person is at least a decade older. She has dirty blonde hair, tousled, pulled back chaotically in a…

When I was in 7th or 8th grade, we had an art assignment: each of us was to render in calligraphy a favorite saying of ours. I dutifully set my pen to parchment, and worked hard for what I remember…

If I’m honest, “rough sex” confuses me. I’m capable of rough-ish sex. I can spank, slap, throw around, etc. But truth is, it goes against everything in my soul to do so, and I’m slightly baffled by the whole thing.…