Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really nice, but I am not attracted to him. Should I call it off now, or wait to see if things improve? Missing the Sparks Dear Missing, I definitely think that people should give others the benefit ...
I’m a Valentine’s Grinch. There, I said it. I don’t understand the obsession with celebrating this holiday and frankly, I refuse to. I wrote a piece on Hallowe’en and my distaste for the way it is often celebrated for the 13 – 35 crowd. Most of it stems from my lack of understanding about why ...
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I hope you have a lovely day with your lover or friends or family or whoever it is you enjoy spending time with. Watch this cute little video if you want a smile on your face.
For better or for worse, the popular franchise The Bachelor will come to Canada in the fall of 2012. Although it was only announced this past Monday, casting begins now. Let’s hope the one hunky man and his Canadian pick really fall in love and make it work — which would be contrary to the ...
Is romance dead? You would think so from seeing the prolific over-sexualization of women in music videos and gratuitous sex scenes on television and film. Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez are only a few artists out of many that come to mind when I think of songstresses whose fashion motto is “barely ...
Dear Madame X, I have dated lots of women over the years, but never seem to be able to form a long-lasting relationship with any of them (longest was five months). For some reason, I never fall in love with any of the women I date and lose interest in them after a few weeks. ...
Esther Freud’s novel The Sea House describes the internal frustrations of Lily, a young Londoner re-evaluating her life while doing postgraduate research in a rented house by the ocean. As an examination of love and lovers, the novel, which encompasses the parallel story of the architect Lily is researching, failed to stir me. Lily is ...
No mere boyfriend can compare to the leading men in romantic movies. We are so used to seeing kisses in the rain, impassioned speeches, and perfectly lit sex scenes that we begin to wonder why our life isn’t more like the final scene of our favourite movie. We’ve written on it before, but we thought ...
John Galt may stop the motor of the world by going on strike against the irrational, unproductive masses, but Dagny Taggart really revs my feminist engine. Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged has been criticized and dissected since it was published in 1957, but it has managed to stand the test of time and, to this day, remains ...
Sexomnia is the latest sleep disorder to stump doctors everywhere. Sufferers engage in sexual acts while fast asleep, waking up in the morning with zero recollection of what transpired. One women’s first person account with her husband’s disorder reveals how it can be bad for a relationship, but also incredibly exciting.
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
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...
