I’m better in relationships. The longer and more committed a relationship is, the better for my general well-being. There really is a lot to be said of shacking up including that age-old adage that “a problem shared is a problem halved” and the fact that you are with someone who knows your tastes (sexual and ...
Fall in love in 2012? More like fall out of love and screw other people. Today is the worst day of the year for cheating, according to experts. Illicit Encounters, the “UK’s largest dating website for married people,” welcomes an astonishing 450 members each day, but yesterday, 994 people signed up. Quite the dramatic spike. ...
Dear Madame X, My girlfriend kissed one of her colleagues at the office Christmas party. She says it was because she had been drinking, and that it will never happen again. I suspect the guy she kissed is really interested in her and was waiting for a good time to make his move. He ...
Is monogamy natural for humans, or are we actually predisposed to a life of promiscuity? In answering either of those questions many would look to human biological norms to find an answer. But after thousands of years spent developing complex societies and civilizations how much of our behaviour is based on what is so-called “normal” ...
Remember Sandra Bullock’s ex husband Jesse James? Picture a tattoo artist with a touch of trailer park for colour? Well after Sandra dumped him for cheating he has been shacking up with his top mistress Kat Von D. But not only her. Miss Von D announced that she had encountered the 19th girl who James had ...
Dear Madame X, This is a question about cheating. I went out to a party and my boyfriend stayed home to finish working on a first week assignment for school. I had a great time and I told him all about it when I saw him the next day, including that I had kissed a ...
Our editor, back from her lost weekend cruising the loucher bars of festival Edinburgh, recently brought an article to my attention. It took the rather unusual stance (at least for a feminist author) that men, finding themselves, as they generally do, in severely straitened sexual circumstances following marriage, are to be admired on a daily ...
When it comes to love, there are various reasons for wanting to throw in the towel. Although we see sensational celebrity breakups splashed all over gossip magazines and it seems like we all have a friend who has been cheated on, the UK’s 2011 matrimonial survey tells us that infidelity is not the number one ...
Dear Madame X, My husband earns a lot of money and supports me and my children really comfortably. He has always been very loving and supportive of our family. However, he has begun to hint that he should be able to sleep with other women, since he is providing so well for us. I think ...
Dear Madame X, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. I have a lover I see whenever I want and a career that fulfills me. Everything is going along perfectly but it doesn’t feel like enough. I refuse to cheat, but lately the idea has developed some appeal. I want to bring another man into the ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
