Is the Next Phase of Sex Positivity Choosing Not to Have Sex?
“She just needs a good f*,” a friend said of Charlotte, Sex and the City’s archetypical romantic. “Why is she waiting for Prince Charming?” asked another. It was 2006, and my friends and I—all 20-somethings—were huddled around a tiny laptop…
Dancing Makes You Happier
Are you a dancer? While some of us might answer an adamant “No!” to that question, we were all dancers at some point. In fact, as a three-week-old baby, you were already starting to sync up your movements to the…
A Brief History of Pie
They’re simple, they’re American and come Thanksgiving, everybody saves room for them. But the pies we know today are a fairly recent addition to a history that goes back as long as mankind has had dough to bake into a…
Why Is My Drink So Damn Weird?
I don’t know what to order anymore. When I walk into a fancy cocktail bar—I should add right away that I absolutely love fancy cocktail bars and always have—and they slide me the menu, I feel like Elmer Fudd. It…
The trends behind the historically low U.S. birth rate
This week, correspondent Jon Wertheim reported from Japan, the land of declining sons and daughters. Over the last 15 years, the East Asian country has seen its population decline, amid low birth rates and falling marriage rates. Last year, more…
The Inner Life of Cats
Feline Functionality As anyone who has spent time with cats knows, our feline companions are mysterious—much more so than those otherfurry family members. Here John Bradshaw, author of Cat Sense (Basic Books, 2013), fields a selection of questions submitted by…
Updated Standards of Dating in 2025
Dating Standards and Sustainability My young, single clients are fed up. Their tales of dating woes sound completely exhausting. Many come to sessions traumatized after evenings gone wrong, so I try to help them change the negative core beliefs they…