During a couple’s “honeymoon phase” usually the only thing on the menu is sex. But once this phase is over and your crotch is burning from over-stimulation, perhaps you start to focus on other parts of your relationship. Maybe you even find lame excuses to say no to sex. Supposedly, this is a phenomenon unique to ...
Christmastime! A time for giving gifts, loving who you’re with, snuggling, and drinking. Binge drinking. A new study put out by Dalhousie University has found that couples who celebrate together binge drink together. The psychology researchers studied 208 heterosexual couples who were in their 20s and had been together around two years. They found that ...
Some think that people pick a mate based on equal hotness. But if you don’t match up, you might want to consider plastic surgery. Or maybe you just want to do something fun with your number one. Whatever the reason, couples are becoming beautiful together. If Bruce and Kris Jenner can do it, anyone can. ...
Waking up in the morning feeling refreshed and rejuvenated may be more important than we thought — especially for women. Their relationships depend on sufficient sleep. Women who experience insomnia before bed are at risk of developing problems in their marriages, according to new study results. Researchers tested the sleeping patterns of 35 couples over ...
Divorce is usually a mutual decision by two people. It’s not always amicable, but the blame for the dissolution of marriage can rarely be placed on one spouse. But women alone are being blamed for the high divorce rate in the UAE by judicial officials. The tradition was that men had to make three statements ...
You may dismiss it as lovey-dovey jibber-jabber when you see those couples in a restaurant holding hands across the table, gazing into each other’s eyes and spewing out pet names to each other, but it always has a way to make my heart melt. The use of special names indicates a special bond between two ...
Like many newly wed couples, Jessica Grose and her husband are trying to work out what their marriage means for their finances. They have been splitting the bills 50/50 but maintaining separate accounts. But should this change? Like any good journalist she couldn’t ask the question without doing her research. She found that less than ...
Babe, it was an accident. It didn’t mean anything. So you tripped and your penis accidentally fell into her vagina? People do what they do for many different reasons, and science is intent on uncovering every one of them. New research points to a “promiscuity gene” which is most common in people who have one ...
My partner is impotent. The medication he is on makes his penis small and tucked away, as if he is constantly cold. With the nicest attention it will peak its head out before limply pulling back. Sex is entirely out of the question. But this article is not about it. It is about me.
You know how after you dump a guy sometimes you think back on them and realize what unmitigated jerks they were? You wonder not only what you saw in them, but how you missed all those giant red flags. For the Elins and Sandras out there, Morning Quickie presents a list of things to avoid.
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Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
