Sex Column: How The Grinch Stole My Orgasm

As a normal human being, I have partaken in my fair share of what I like to call “sex gossip.” You know, the I-just-did-something-naughty-with-a-hot-person-and-now-I’m-going-to-tell-my-bestfriend gossip. However, among these tantalizing stories, one element tends to be horrifyingly common. When I ask, “So, was it good? *wink wink*” a common response is,

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Sex for Dessert, Conversation for Breakfast: Hook-up Culture at the 5Cs

The media’s seemingly cyclical concern over an out-of-control hook-up culture among the nation’s undergraduates tends to be misguided (e.g. college students are actually having less sex now than they did 20 years ago) and/or sexist in its subtle reiterations of the ‘slut/player’ dynamic. Nonetheless, I agree with the underlying premise

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Tender Buttons, Tender Butts

Note: This week’s sex column contains more explicit material than columns printed in the past. We encourage you to assess your own comfort level with sexually graphic content before reading. Dear Tender Buttons, I’m comfortable with the vaginal sex I’ve been having with my boyfriend… comfortable being the operative word.

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Sex Column: 2/11

“Tender Buttons” is the name of Gertrude Stein’s 1912 masterpiece, a collection of poems derided as nonsensical by some and praised for breathtaking sensuality by others. Stein would host gatherings in her renowned Paris salon for her favorite ex-pats and other intellectuals, providing an atmosphere rich with thought and pleasure

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