It is one of the oldest institutions in the world. Most humans are actively engaged in it as I write this. Some people spend their whole lives searching for it, but does anyone actually know what marriage is? In Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, Elizabeth Gilbert attempts to find the answers. She looks ...
You know you’re in for a treat when the first four pages of a book include a sexy movie star masturbating and a teenage girl losing her virginity. Amazon.com WidgetsScandalous, by Tilly Bagshawe is a page-turner filled with sex, scandal, romance, and revenge. The story is centered around the life of Sasha Miller from the ...
It didn’t cross my mind that a book about running a brothel in the 1920s would be boring. Depressing perhaps, or even funny, probably insightful, but surely not bone-achingly dull. Amazon.com WidgetsThe Madam is a novel based on Julianna Baggott’s family history. It is about the struggles her great-grandmother faced while trying to raise her ...
Everyone knows that after a while the lusty sex-crazed desire of a new relationship will fizzle into a warm tender glow. And as much as we know this to be true it’s often frustrating and we still want to have those nights of wild animal sex with our partner. Amazon.com WidgetsMating in Captivity by Esther ...
Motherhood is like being swaddled in a soft, warm blanket — or at least that’s what They want you to think. When Naomi Wolf discovered she was pregnant, she was shocked by the mountains of advice that mothers-to-be are given, heavy on comfort but light on the facts. She set out to write a book ...
Men are useless. They are either power-hungry jerks or lazy no-good leeches. This world is all about women versus men and the only way the women can get ahead in life is to band together and fight their way to the top. This is the way the world in painted in Lipstick Jungle. It was ...
Feminism threw a wrench in the works, not only redefining womanhood, but in many ways obliterating the foundation of masculinity. Manhood for Amateurs is Michael Chabon’s attempt to explore the issue, yet it is blessedly free from lectures about the subject. It’s salvation lies in the tagline, which reads: The Pleasures and Regrets of a ...
Money, romance, independence, and the rights of women are central to this Victorian-style novel, The Second Mrs. Darcy. It catches the reader’s attention immediately by proclaiming to a newly widowed young woman that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ...
Rebel. The word itself is sexy. So when Maria Raha decided to name her book about rebel women Hellions, it should have been a warning that she did not know what she was doing. The book promises “to give rebel women their due, and celebrate female rebelliousness
“If we want more good men in the world, we must start treating boys with less blame and more understanding.” This is the purpose of Raising Boys; to try to understand what makes boys tick, why they are different from girls, and how we can raise them to become good men. It shows the reader ...
Like most people, I have been given many pieces of wisdom over the years by my parents. However, three...
Since my friend had her first baby, she’s had her tits out all over town. Most folk have just...
When Fashion Weeks continue around the world, the media turns its attention for a brief moment to the fashion...
Dear Madame X, I don’t know what to do. I just found out my boyfriend goes to prostitutes. We...
Much talk of girls and girlhood on International Women’s Day 2012 inspired me to re-read the most inspirational book...
Heterosexuality is not normal… It’s just common. ~ Dorothy Parker
How to beat a pick-up artist at their own game. Thanks to the geniuses at xkcd comics.
Baldness. It’s all the rage -– well, it is with men. Of course, there’s nothing new about male pattern...
