Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she had slept with over 30 guys. I find this gross and am really put off her. What should I do? Grossed Out Dear Grossed Out, Everyone has a different threshold for which they are grossed out ...
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” ...
There was no shortage of debate in the latter half of the 20th century over the relevance of marriage. The freedoms women campaigned for — wage equality, childcare — were based on the idea of autonomy. The right not to marry was a key freedom. Thanks to previous generations, I’m not required to define myself ...
Real life sister-wife, Vicki Darger, opens up about her experiences with polygamy and how it affected her post-partum depression in an article for the Huffington Post. “Most men don’t enter this lifestyle so they can have more sex; rather, they have a sincere sense of a higher purpose. I’d rather share Joe than have a ...
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 ...
Your husband may think he’s not ready to be a father, but once he is, his body will clue in and make sure the job is done right. Researchers looked at 624 men in the Philippines for 4.5 years and discovered that they had lower levels of testosterone after the birth of their children. Why? ...
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 ...
Polygamy is outlawed in many nations for multiple reasons. One of them, a scholar explains, is a link between monogamy and democracy. Get ready to get pissy, ladies. Apparently, since the first sun rose over Mount Olympus, men in democratic nations have been expected to have only one wife. For, in a democracy, all men ...
Despite the myth of finding “the one,” we’re all increasingly aware that we might not actually be made for one person: people fall in love more than once, go through several serious relationships and sometimes cheat. So why do we desperately hold on to the idea that there’s only one mate for us? The first ...
Dear Madame X, At the moment I have a girlfriend and a boyfriend. Neither knew about the other until last week when my girlfriend found out that occasionally I prefer dicks to chicks. She’s losing it and says I was cheating, but I used protection every time and we’re hardly serious. I tried to explain ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
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...
