I often fantasize about how much money I could save if I had a live-in boyfriend. Unfortunately, the potentials where I live are trash and also, then I’d have to live with someone else. But gah, the money I’d save!

I used to read them too but what eventually made me stop was how it felt like every single writer was living with her boyfriend, thus all her bills were split in half, and it started to piss me off. I wanted to read about single women, such as myself, who paid for every single bill by themselves. 

While hsv1 and hsv2 do tend to localize to one area (lips vs. genitals), that’s not always the case. You can get hsv1 on your genitals (usually from oral sex, but then it can be passed from genitals to genitals. And lots of people beyond wrestlers get cold sores.

That guy might have been a douche, but most people with herpes don’t know they have it. Most people don’t have symptoms (but are still contagious), others have mild symptoms and never see a doctor about it. Less sex = less risk, but honest people can pass it on and people in loving committed relationships can get it.

Thank you for sharing your story. The visual aspects of our bodies are such a huge component of sexuality, for ourselves and our partners. Even if a partner is understanding, it can take years or a lifetime to feel sensual and desirable with visible skin conditions (and other ailments not discussed here). I lived with…

When you consider that 67% of the population has herpes, the stigma surrounding it really comes into focus. Especially since many people don’t ever experience symptoms but still have it, and that oral herpes has been given a much kinder name as “cold sores.”

This combination of herpes and eczema sounds really painful…

I’m not a parent and am never going to be and even I appreciate this article. 

(Woman in Engineering) I agree with your professor! Here’s why:

In addition to shouldering more of this type of work, there are also studies showing that women also face backlash for *not* volunteering, or saying no when asked to do something; men are viewed as “busy” if they say no while women are viewed as selfish. https://hbr.org/2015/04/office-housework-gets-in-womens-way

“White women after all form the base of the Republican Party—53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump, and in last year’s special election for an open Senate seat in Alabama, 63 percent of white women cast their ballots for the noted sexual predator Roy Moore.”

“But - but - why won’t you let me participate in your event raising awareness about problems I’ve spent my entire life enabling? Why are you being so intolerant?”

Hard work and determination doesn’t matter as much as having money or connections, and while it’s been this way for a while, we’re now starting to see the divide more clearly. 

If your family has money you’re going to advance farther and faster than those who don’t enjoy that privilege even though the argument could be made that someone from money doesn’t need that crucial leg up to begin with. We are living in a society where having money is rewarded with opportunity and more money while…

““money challenges” that will supposedly incentivize the reader to save upwards of $500.”

I like a lot of things about Refinery29, but the e-mails I get with these headlines always make me feel like shit about my own situation, like I just want to crawl in a hole and hide from the judgement of the world about being spoiled, mediocre and a 35 year old failure.

Funny how that works.

Revenge porn is terrible, but as a teacher, I’m struck at the standard teachers are held to (can’t have anything bad happen NEAR you, not just can’t do bad things).

Dude, again you are extrapolating the thoughts of one woman onto the entire population. You and your wife have a good thing going. Bravo. But to say all women think that way is silly.

Your wife seems weird. Why would someone say that in public?

Hello, Mike Pence.