Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Sometimes people ask questions that there are no right ways to answer. Sometimes they are deliberate trick questions, like, “Why is Obama afraid to show the public his birth certificate?” (the one that is available all over the Internet) or “Do you think she looks better than me?” But a lot of times people honestly…
Turns out kids these days, like kids in those days and the days before that too, do sex things, to themselves and to each other. Even in small, wholesome towns where teenagers are still cursed with hormones and interests and curiosities, and wet panties and hard-ons. That teenagers have varying degrees of interest in S-E-X is…
By writing this, I don’t mean to imply that many people call me beautiful. They don’t. And I’m not saying this because I would like them to. As the title suggests, I would rather they not. Why? Because if we were all to be very honest with ourselves, we would admit that I’m not beautiful…
The past month or so has seen the publication of two books from men who, a decade ago, created questionable blueprints of what dating should be like for an entitled generation of dudes. Unexpectedly (to their former selves, at least) the new stories from these teachers—who, not so long ago, were demonstrating how to sleep…
New budding romantic relationships are times of excitement in our lives. We’re excited about the possibilities of what could be built with this other person, while simultaneously ripping our hair out and overanalyzing every single reaction we have with this person. Or maybe it’s just me? And in today’s prominence of instant communication and need for…
Photo Credit Brian Rea When I called my health clinic last month to refill the birth-control pill prescription I have had for 10 years, I was put on the line with a doctor — not my normal gynecologist — who began asking questions about my health. “It says on your form that you’re interested in…
A couple of weeks ago, Jean Francois Painchaud was just another Canadian animator – working for the PBS kids show Wild Kratts by day, making sexually explicit GIFs by night. Little did he know, when he sat in front of his computer at 10AM last Monday, that things were going to change. Jean Francois had been…
Welcome back to Restaurant Confessionals, where we talk to the unheard voices of the restaurant industry from both the front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) about what really goes on behind the scenes at your favorite establishments. It’s pretty amazing how often this will happen, but you know it’s an online date when someone will come…
Sex on Campus Why sex that’s consensual can still be bad. And why we’re not talking about it. Last winter, Reina Gattuso was a Harvard senior majoring in literature and gender studies and writing a biweekly column for the college newspaper, the Crimson. She covered a variety of subjects, among them her sexuality (she identifies…
Who wants to break it to dads that their teenage daughters are not their property? Who wants to tell them that joking about them like they are is just weird? But more than that, who wants to tell the members of the media who perpetuate that old joke just how tired it really is? Bangor,…